2008 Woodcut Study #1

This is a study for my next woodcut. Background still on the work. I'll try to post the test prints as I progress.

Woodcuts

It took me 3 semesters to finish Xilogravure I, or woodcut as you call it. Only now I've found a better way to identify with it's technique. Between Woodcut and Lithography initially I identified more with Lithography, which took most of my time during these 3 semesters thus making it difficult for me to finish 8 woodcuts in one. Took me 3 semesters, but I did it. These are just 4 out 9 I did, but I consider these more finished than the others, which I still want to work on. I think a significant difference in style is noticeable between the first 2 and the last ones.

Studies, or the lack of..

I decided to copy some drawings to practice and to kill the time, while i thought of ideas for my next project at school... I think what I like the most really is to copy, it's been such a long time, I forgot how much I enjoy doing it. The first drawings are Durer's, and the samurai is from a digital artist called Daarken.

note to self - the amount of proportion mistakes only emphasizes just how much we cannot stop practicing...

Lithography II - 2008/1

The last 3. The colored one was very hard to do, but unfortunately didn't pay off very well in the end. 5 plates. I'll try to post my woodcuts done along these 3 periods next week. See ya there.

2007/2 Lithography II

These are the first 4 of the second period of lithography. The litho stones used here are slithly larger than the A3 format, giving a little more freedom to work with, but still i was too limited and did not fully use the space available. They're also in order, from the top.
On this period i couldn't finish the task of 8 prints, finished only 4 and had to continue on lithography II the following semester.

Continuation (2007/1)

The last two prints of the period, a little larger. Titles are - Tribute to Alighieri and Pallas Athena.

First period 2007/1 - Lithography

I thought it would be fair to show everything since the beginning instead of picking the ones i judge the best, I'm sure that i will improve tremendously from now on, so, no shame at all! These were my first 5 prints in the workshop of lithography. The first contact was fun but not very successful... In chronological order, from the top.
Titles of the second and fifth - Expansion and Keisei, respectively. - to be continued-

By request

So...

I'm here, we're here, to anyone who wants to look, comment, criticize, etc. I don't have anything special to show, just a few prints from my 3 periods in the workshop of the University of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro where i study Printmaking.

I'm also a student of the very illustrious illustrator Mr. Ricardo Guimaraes who encouraged me to make this s...ite.

Well, until then, who knows, next month maybe.