Brief
During Event 1 you were taught how to apply your image- and meaning-making knowledge to a variety of printmaking processes. Event 2 introduces a new creative process where you will learn how to translate your mark into a digital sphere and apply your understanding of meaning-making to create an editorial cover image for ‘The New Yorker’. ‘The New Yorker’ is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. The final illustration must exhibit elements of (primarily) vector and (secondarily) traditional illustration techniques. In essence, the main objective of Event 2 is 1) to create a successful editorial illustration for the cover page of ‘The New Yorker’; 2) that combines vector and traditional illustration; 3) and essentially communicates a given narrative.
The concept
Even after reading it several times, I still can't think of a notion in this paper. I conducted primary research on produced meat in my town by interviewing individuals of various racial and cultural backgrounds. I think I began by finding out what people knew about lab-grown meat. I received many insightful comments and viewpoints from others.Not to be outdone, I use some of the reading from the article to generate an idea. According to the story "Singapore's government has been serving cultivated meat to VIP guests over the past few months" This is how I used that to construct a story. The Singaporean government gave wine to attendees of the board meeting, where they were introduced to farmed meat for the first time ever in history. The attendees were of many ethnicities and cultures. A portion of the attendees are opposed to this because of their cultural beliefs. A few people at the table advocate for cultivated meat as no animals will be slaughtered. The two-sided meeting board is to blame for the mess on the table; some claim that if we don't slough off the animals, they'll start killing humans. There are many who think that the following generation will witness the creatures that were exterminated before.
PROCESS WORK
Creative Process
I created a drypoint print for the cover's backdrop because I wanted it to have a rough texture and a tactile quality that would entice the viewer to touch it. I wasn't interested in a tidy backdrop.
Drypoint : In the printing process known as "drypoint," a hard-pointed "needle" made of diamond or sharp metal is used to incise an image into a plate (or "matrix"). The process is much the same as engraving in theory. The raised ridge along the furrow is not filed or scraped away like it is in engraving; instead, it is created using other techniques.(Source: ) Copper was the usual material for the plate, although these days it's also frequently made of plexiglas, zinc, or acetate. Similar to etching, drypoint is simpler for a drawing-trained artist to learn than engraving since the needle method is more akin to using a pencil than the engraver's burin.
PROCESS WORK
Here is how I make drypoint; the video is not very high quality, but it's still entertaining.
MOCKUP
