A Journey to Concept Art

 2D project Image process Digital Design (Clip Studio Paint) Black print of outline Transferring the ink into the lino Linocut, with the registration setup and ready to print Blue to black First mistake Printing done, now all that is left to is hand paint the details. Ready to add the red details first, followed by the brown "landscape" Printing and Hand painting complete and left to dry

 Amanita Design Amanita design is a indie video-game company from czech republic with a name based on the famous and iconic mushroom "amanita muscaria". This indie company was founded in 2003 by Jakub Dvorsky, an animator, designer and artist. This game studio was introduced to me by my tutor due to the similar objective in their projects. The aim with my project was to explore new mediums, games nowadays tend to focus on hyper-realistic graphics in 4k with extreme and unnecessary detail. Of course this all looks amazing, but the market is saturated with this sort of content with the more recent games trying to look even more hyper-realistic with more groundbreaking detail. I, on the other hand, think that hyper realism is boring, clearly it is not the best way to convey imagery, or stories. So i would like to explore other methods to create visuals for video-games, and something traditional came to mind, such as linocut.  Amanita design seems to follow this idea, as the game...

 Registration on lino printing and the process. In a project much like mine, when we have multiple prints of multiple colours, registration becomes necessary, as it aligns the previous print with the next one. I had two printing blocks per design, so, therefore i had to create a simple registration "tool" which was composed of a cutting board, hot glue and Kappa line. (See picture below) With this simple registration method, i used my blue oil paint and started printing the blue parts of my designs, followed by the black outline and details. The brown and red would come after with just a simple painting technique using acrylics (See picture below).