FMP - Further Printing

In today's session I printed off more artifacts from the Pamundur Empire starting with this poster from the 1800's depicting the Sultana Adiya tying up the different figures of the political world as a propaganda image for people to join the army. I tried to replicate the style of minimalistic posters of the 1850's because I really liked their particular style and I had to reference the fact that modern printing techniques didn't exist back in the 1800's so I needed it to look simple otherwise it wouldn't make any contextual sense. The other print artifacts I produced toady were much smaller then this one but still were just as important in establishing the empire. The first one was a picture of the first Sultana Umut posing against a tree with a bird figure representing the end of a recent conflict. I made sure to age this one a lot more then the others as it was probably the oldest artifact in the Pamundur collection so it needed to feel as old as it's supposed to be.

The third image that I printed and aged today was a woodcut print styled illustration of the Sultana Yeter leading an attack on the Fanarian Islands with the flying soldiers in the background. This artifact is supposed to establish what these islands look like so as ti immerse people in a place that could tangibly exist in the real world. The fourth image that I created for my fictional exhibition was  another woodcut print inspired illustration of the Sultana Kali burning two white men for treason. This was quite a dramatic image to compose that I had to look at other illustrations depicting burnings to gather inspiration. The fire and smoke was my favorite bit to draw as I liked replicating the billowing curvy lines of the fire that created a dramatic image. The fifth and final image that I printed and aged today was an excerpt from an ancient book about the newspaper culture of the Pamundur Empire with a racist caricature of a Fanarian couple. This was both fun and difficult to draw because it was fun to do some exaggerated features but it was also uncomfortable because I was drawing a sort of racist image that could potentially offend people in my exhibit.