The quality of these lines contributes to the merit of the print. Etching ink, copper plates, burins, scribes. Develop an image in your sketchbook that you will transfer to the copper plate. This needs to be a line drawing. Incise the image on the copper plate and print an edition of 10.
Printmaking allows the artist to reach a wide audience by producing multiples of the same image.
One of the least complex and most economical methods of printmaking is woodcut . Despite any limitations the medium may have you will find that combinations of line, shape, form, textures and techniques afford limitless possibilities. A woodcut is usually bolder and less detailed than a wood engraving. A wood cut is produced by the use of scooped tools called gouges to cut into plank-grain wood, which is wood cut with the grain of the tree. Woodcut is classified as relief print - the term relief meaning 'raised'.