The Shape Skull Clown screen print by artist Teddy Jeddeloh was created in a captivating mixed media process which blended steps of handmade artistry and digital technology. First, it started with a 3D printed skull for accuracy. Then the process involved photography, digitally merged images, and finally a hand drawn charcoal image. The final digital design was enhanced and rendered in Adobe where it was also digitally prepped for screen printing.
All of these steps were made possible with the MediaHub's extensive resources, helpful student staff and comfortable workspaces.
Behind the Art Making Process
- First, I 3D printed a rendered human skull so that I could have an accurate 3D representation to draw from real life.
- Then, I rented a DSLR camera and tripod from the MediaHub Checkout to take pictures of the 3D printed skull and my own portrait for realistic visual alignment.
- Next, on a MediaHub Colab iMac, I simply combined those pictures as merged layers in Adobe Photoshop. Then printed a new, single image.
- After that, I used charcoal to draw and replicate the image design on charcoal paper to get desired texture along with hand drawn qualities.
- Next, I scanned to digitize my charcoal drawing in the MediaHub CoLab on the Epson V600 photo scanner and created a rendered bitmap using Adobe Photoshop.
- Then, I brought the new digital image into Adobe Illustrator and added layers of makeup, shadows, and a base to ground the composition.
- Once that was created I was able to split these layers up in Adobe Illustrator for my screen print. Finally in the art department's print making room, I completed the final product with a traditional screen printing process!
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