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Wow, I never realized that dA had a section for actual printmaking processes...

Ahem. Anyways. This is one of the prints I made for my final Printmaking I assignment - made using the intaglio process, using an etched plate. This is the line etch print of my plate - hence the 1 in the title (number 2 is the aquatinted version I had to do as well, which I have yet to scan). Intaglio is so lovely...and was such a relief from the previous color relief assignment, which I did not like nearly as much.

I don't like this scan. ;_; Honestly, it looks better in person; I had to scan it in two parts, since it's a 16 x 13 piece and my scanner can't scan things that aren't just a little bigger than a normal sheet of paper in one go. In the process of splicing it back together, it gained those gray areas on it. Bah.

Fafnir is a dragon from Norse Mythology. I chose that name mostly because I thought it sounded good. *cough*

About the picture: printed using an etched 12 x 9 copper plate, with dark brown ink on cream Stonehenge paper.

Would have been black ink on white paper, but the store was out of white by the time I got there (and I was too cheap to pay even 5 cents extra for the "warm white" color), and I didn't think that black ink would look as good on the cream.

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Wow, I never realized that dA had a section for actual printmaking processes...

Ahem. Anyways. This is one of the prints I made for my final Printmaking I assignment - made using the intaglio process, using an etched plate. This is the line etch print of my plate - hence the 1 in the title (number 2 is the aquatinted version I had to do as well, which I have yet to scan). Intaglio is so lovely...and was such a relief from the previous color relief assignment, which I did not like nearly as much.

I don't like this scan. ;_; Honestly, it looks better in person; I had to scan it in two parts, since it's a 16 x 13 piece and my scanner can't scan things that aren't just a little bigger than a normal sheet of paper in one go. In the process of splicing it back together, it gained those gray areas on it. Bah.

Fafnir is a dragon from Norse Mythology. I chose that name mostly because I thought it sounded good. *cough*

About the picture: printed using an etched 12 x 9 copper plate, with dark brown ink on cream Stonehenge paper.

Would have been black ink on white paper, but the store was out of white by the time I got there (and I was too cheap to pay even 5 cents extra for the "warm white" color), and I didn't think that black ink would look as good on the cream.