The Finished Robot

At last I have completed my lithography project.

The process involved in lithography must be admired but in my eyes it takes far too long to create a piece. 

It is also very hard to judge exactly how the end product will look.

I am pleased with the robot print 

The Next Step

Colour introduced with help from Sercan Sahin.

The white mask is a great help to remove that side of my face from the human form.

It is still a bit rough looking but this white mask is like a blank canvas.

Yet I feel I have ideas for the final piece already.

Maybe they could change yet.

Robo Head Beginning

So the transformation begins,

I am becoming a ROBOT.

This leads on from my earlier sketch 

This is where my final image begins

Inside the Lens

So my work really has become very much digital,

and very much about me becoming part of objects.

Analog

As of late I have acquired a great interest in Analog or Film Photography.

I have done it all by hand and I have been involved 100% of the way,

from the snap to the print.

Here is my first ever printed Film Photograph

This photo was taken before we were given our project with Martin in photography.

Yes I am a print student but lens based work is important and I for one love it.

So our project is sequence or photos in sequence.

My friend here gave me a brilliant idea.

Get anyone I want to give me the middle finger as I take their picture.

Camera Head

Photography and Cameras are a big part of my life.

Generally speaking where ever I go there is almost always a camera within reaching distance.

So I guess if I am making myself transform,

why not transform into something I love.

The camera used for the eyes is my first film Camera.

and

The tripod legs are from my first tripod

Another Guitar Head

This image is just a follow on from the last post.

I like the way it works.

My eyes look as if they are focusing on the head of the guitar.

The idea for these images came to me last night as I was going to bed.

I walked past my guitar and I thought that would be interesting stuck in someones head.

That worked pretty well with the ideas of my project.

Guitar Head

I have already got my final image ready for my lithography stone,

but I would prefer to wait until my prints are complete to reveal it.

In the mean-time I will post some other images I am working on and creating.

H.R. Giger

One of my fellow class mates, who is also working with mechanical forms introduced me to the name H.R. Giger.

I had never heard the name but I was interested so i went looking at images.

The first one that really caught my eye (as I was still looking for images that would relate or connect to my ideas) was this one.

The image has elements of what I am imaging,

 but i felt that this face was emerging from the mechanical like background rather than becoming part of it.

A fantastic piece of work all the same.

I did in turn do a rough sketch which was inspired by this particular image,

with a mix of iRobot - another great film.

In this sketch there is reference to The image above and as I have already stated iRobot but also beyond that again I was brought back to 

IRON MAN.

The gears in this piece come from the two ideas.

1. being the way a clock works and how the mechanism keeps the clock in motion once power is available.

2. Bicycles. in the last year I have done two big charity cycles.

one was 50km and the other 100km.

When you cycle these long distances your legs become accustomed to the circular movement.

That circle is of course the gear on which the pedals are attached to.

When you get of the bike you feel weak at the knees as if you need the bike under you again.

It is like you become one with the bike.

Electric Life Form

While I was looking through the 'web' for images,

I came across this pretty cool piece and I loved it and how it related to my idea.

The face of a real person on a mechanical brain or at least thats the way i see it.

Exactly what I was thinking of was this, part Human part Robot.

I played around with this image a bit just to give me some ideas.

What I came up with I liked.

I did alter the thickness of the neck... 

I didn't find the original aesthetically pleasing. 

The background is simply a heart monitor graph.

the use of the graph was to show a sign of life.

Become a Robot

So my project has become a lot about transforming myself into a 

ROBOT.

Wouldn't that be a great story?

Front page of the local paper local man turns himself into a Robot!

Sounds a bit familiar.

That story is already there and known by most.

IRON MAN

Yes a fictional movie about a rich weapons designer who designs a mechanical suit that he can wear.

But he interacts with suit and it interacts with him.

They become one.

Like he says in the movie,

'I am Iron Man'

Scanner

Following on with my project, I have been looking for 

ways to make myself part of my work.

But how do I make myself look Robotic 

or

mechanical and still remain human like?

I was scanning documents for other stuff and had the sudden idea

to scan my face and see what it would be like.

Here are the scans i took.

The images do not make me look mechanical but the process, compared to just taking a photo is much more mechanical itself

David Lynch - Lithography

Another great video for Litho.

A bit dark and emotional,

but a great sequence of prints.

A great story

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ksbsP0wDY

A bit of stone Lithography with Edinburgh Printmakers

A good video to refresh the mind on the process of litho.

its pretty short too if needed in a rush

Lithography!

Now that my half of the class are finished the intaglio workshops, we have been taken on with the lithography workshops.

Following the same brief for Structures, Space and Systems we are to create a lithograph consisting of 2 colours.

I want to keep my new prints connected to my last set but I want them to be totally different as well.

ELECTRIC 

was a very strong print. 

It was (BOOM) in your face.

It had all the elements when you look at it really.

There was a Structure which was in a space and it worked as part of a system.

Now I want to follow on and try keep them all again.

For some reason I have been attracted to the idea of an electrical life form.

ROBOTS

was the first thing to hit my mind and I think it will have a presence in my litho prints.

This was the first sketch I did which had any reference to Robots.

It does also have the word

 ELECTRIC.

The robot does have a life like look which again I feel should have a presence in my final image.