Good Will Screen Print

This is the second screen print I have finished and the first using the pin and tab registration. It has seven colors and is sized about 11"x14", the registration is a little off and I had some issues with too much ink coming through, but I am pleased with the result. This was for an appropriation assignment in my screen printing class. I needed a frame for a poster so I picked a frame from Goodwill a few months back, it turned out to be too small for the poster but I did get this poster out of it with a kind of creepy 1950's vibe, so when I had to choose an image to appropriate for the class project it was right on hand. The idea behind the print was to play up the creepiness of the too-perfect for reality original poster, by actually turning the figures into robots disguised as people. The finished shots and some process follow.

Beginning to work with the orignal image and figuring how I want to turn them into robots

An early Photoshop composition, I dropped the lasers coming from the boys eyes because it covered up too much of the robot face

Beginning the illustrations, I like to start with the black lines first to build up form

This is the black layer at an intermediate point, the human part of the faces are done, time to get to work on the robot parts

Robots!

Starting to add in some color

Adding in highlights, robot people are shiny, everyone knows that

Most of the illustration work in the faces is done here, trying to figure out how to handle the background and their bodies

This is the finished computer mockup, you can tell I didn't quite hit these colors for the final version. Next is to separate all this out into individual color layers