Thank you Cris for this helpful class! I was going to attend a risography workshop, and having never tried riso before, this helped me a lot to prep for printing!

I combined this class with Weronika Salach's Isometric Illustration in Procreate: Design Your Dream Room. The workshop was to make A3-sized prints in 3 colour inks, so I designed this picture specifically for that. I wanted to explore the colour-mixing combinations using something very colourful, and then I thought that an art-supply shop was the ideal background for that ^_^

The A3 riso print in fluorescent pink, yellow and medium blue (available in my webshop!)
Artist in a Supply Store - image 1 - student project

Process

I first made some colour swatches to decide whether I wanted fluo pink+yellow+medium blue (left) or fluo orange+yellow+medium blue (right). Of course, you can get many more colours from these inks, by varying opacity and adding triadic colours, but I just needed a quick guide. I decided to go with the first combo in the end because I liked the purples better:
Artist in a Supply Store - image 2 - student project

I sketched the image (more details on that in my project from the isometric class), then brought the inked outline into a new Procreate file, setting up the colour layers using the clipping mask+multiply method:
Artist in a Supply Store - image 3 - student project

To colour, I started with a background color with light grey on the "yellow" layer and very light grey on the pink layer. I did not know how to be accurate in terms of ink percentage, so I picked a color palette of a dozen different values of grey beforehand to use for ink intensities. For the walls, I used slightly darker grey on the pink layer and lighter on the yellow layer. For the green on plants, I painted over the leaves in white on the pink layer, then added medium grey on both yellow and blue layer, with variations to create shadows.

Artist in a Supply Store - image 4 - student project

The grayscale layer for blue, plus the lineart on a different layer (later I turned it black and merged it down to the "blue" layer for the printer)

The riso studio hosting the workshop (Quintal Editions) has double-drum riso printers, so they could test print both pink and yellow at the same time:
Artist in a Supply Store - image 5 - student project

Test print in blue: Artist in a Supply Store - image 6 - student project

Details (aaah the texture!):
Artist in a Supply Store - image 7 - student project

Artist in a Supply Store - image 8 - student project

Artist in a Supply Store - image 9 - student project

The digital illustration done in Procreate:
Artist in a Supply Store - image 10 - student project

Thank you for reading! ^_^ If you like my work, you can find me on Instagram @echo.ism and @echo.printmaker.

Isabelle Lin

Illustrator and printmaker

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