Finalising thoughts

After recieving feedback for my cop work so far, i decided to continue on using ink to show a connection between technology and humans. I started to think about everyday interventions that technology had on our lives, from birth to death. I then created some more pages of work as well as creating a few different hot dog books to play with a size and medium (something that had been suggested to me during the feedback).

From playing with these compositions I decided I didn't want to use a hot dog book (because it was too simple) or a consatina (just because I wasn't sure I wanted my work to be continuous from page to page) and that saddle stitch bound was definitely the way forward for this practical.

But creating the small books really did help me with what I wanted to say and in what order I wanted to say it. I thought about our relationship with technology and how any humans born from 2016 onwards would never know a life where technology wasn't the aid to it. That was the main thought driving the work out as I was thinking about all the moments you encounter in your life that were private and are now hash tagged and shared and commented on.
I started to use continuous line in my work because I liked the fluidity of it and the feel of the nib on the paper. It felt very analogue and I liked that there were small human errors in my work, I felt like it showed that even though this was going to be neatened using technology there was still human sentiment behind it.  I didn't want anything too complicated because I wanted people to be able to project themselves into the lives of the figures so thats where continuous line also worked well as a medium for me.

From this I scanned in my favourite pieces of work , it was on a dodgy scanner which initially I was annoyed with however I liked the kind of glitchy look to it as it added to the feel of the book and made the line work more interesting. I cut out and stuck the scanned pieces in an order to get them right on the page, before using the scans and taking them into photoshop to neaten up the levels and eliminate that cut and stick feel it had to it.