Home-made Scratch Board

This is an illustration I produced for a proposed poster design for adpsr.org. Regretfully, I never made the submission and labeled the work as experimental.


The process I used included hot press illustration board, a lot of workable fixative, and two coats of India ink. I first coated the board with a few heavy coats of fixative. After allowing the board to dry for a few days. I then coated it with India ink. The second coat wasn't drying fast enough, so I sped up the dry time with a blow dryer. That is what created the distressed look of the ink. I used an xacto-knife to scratch the ink off to produce the image.