I was quite thrilled by the possibilities in vinyl cutting. Printing stickers is always fun.
What I had not through through was the correlation between amount of detail a small sized
image could hold and its aesthetic - and how it would manifest as a print. I began with what I
thought was a simple and repatitive image. Perhaps if this vector were to printed out
large-scale the vinyl would survive the intricate cutting. But for a small-sized vinly such detail
was simple not an option. I did not get a successful print.
I suspect this image too did not wowrk out becuase the lines were pehaps too close to
eachother to get a clean cut. And this was evident while during the printing process where
all the unnecessary peeling began:
Except the first time it didnt. I think one of the problems with cutting on copper sheets
is that even the slightest intricracy will not hold well. The material is made for bold cuts,yes,
but also single simple and fat lines. However the very same image worked well in vinyl sheet:
What did print very well on copper were simple boxes and circles:
I did get a little more ambitious by this time. The image below could have worked very well
(potentially). Except the drawing itself was a little flawed. initially i drew it on
photoshop but when i transfered it to illustrator, some lines were misisng and the
vector was not complete.
But I saw the flaw in drawing only after i had printed it out onto the copper sheet:
So I went back to three more attempts with vinyl. Two were successful...
...and one (technically) failed but produced a neat pixellated abstraction of a could-have-been
Now that I know what works and what doesnt, the level of simplicity a line requires,
it has become easier to experiment. I have a few more images I would like to experiment with
over the coming weeks.