Skunkball

Here's my first effort at the woodblock print, the cover for an upcoming comic book, Skunkball. It was a lot of fun. I didn't have any printing ink, so I used some acrylic paint that I've had sitting around for years, collecting dust. I had to play around with adding water to get the right consistency.

Skunkball is a game we played in my house when I was a kid. Here's the back cover. The negative lettering, my name and date, came out much better than the positive lettering, the "Skunkball" on the front cover. The Skunkball part was a bit muddy. I've gone back and embellished the image with some black ink.

Here are some more copies with varying degrees of paint density.

And the woodblock.