Astor Piazzolla poster

This is a poster I made about a year ago as a gift to my boyfriend, he loves to sample old music and this is one of his favourite musicians to sample :].

I’m not sure what the style its made in is called in english, i think it is ”dry-point” (?). You basically scratch on a hard plastic board with a needle-pointed pen, all the scratches you’ve made on the plastic board will later be filled with a thick colour-paste. The next step once youve filled all the scratches with color is to gently wipe of the excessive colour so that you see the drawing and all the lines youve scratched. Then you put a slightly wet and thick paper on it and slowly roll a huge press over it so the coloured lines transfer over to the paper. Voila! An Astor is made.

These presses are huge tho and i was only able to do this because I went in an old school print-graphic-school back then. It wasnt as kool as it sounds. Do not pay loads of money for artschools kids! They are often shady and extremely cheap(dont give you very much materials to work with). I learned alot more reading tutorials on internet during a month compared to what I learned there for a whole year. Dont we love the internet? ^^I should have known that a printing-graphic school wasnt for me tho, Ive never liked the pretentious artsy stuff, i like my things to come in handy in some way, not just be hung on a wall. Digital illustrations is much more suited for me, it feels much more practical. :]

Anyways.. there’s alot of detail-pics on this poster, I love how dirty the outcome is when you draw in this style, you get to see all the scratches and stuff. I even stepped and scratched the plastic board before i rolled it under the press, it gives it alot more character. You’ll see my little doggie on the last pic too :], my little depressed weinerdog. She didnt get to play as mush as she would have wanted today. Life aint fun when her owner stares at a screen all day. I’ll make up for it tomorrow tho. <3