Loki Gwynbleidd Vintage Propaganda
catalogue of illustrations – SUMMER 2023
About - What you should know.
On this page you will find all useful information about "The Drawing Coypu", the propagandist craftsman behind the posters, cards and other visuals featured on this site.
The Anarchist Propagandist.
Anarchist for a long time and illustrator of vintage stuff since March 2020.
J’ai la chance d’être un artiste propagandiste qui vit en France en collocation avec sa partenaire, ses chats et sa neuro-atypie .
J’adore les ragondins (which I can use to remain anonymous on the Internet), puffins and buckwheat pancakes.
Precarious & unemployed (but not jobless), I draw both to calm my anxieties and to earn a little money.
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My main goal is to make anarchist, communist and socialist propaganda that affects the largest number of people.
So I include progressive and revolutionary messages in my work, as well as inclusive and radical themes.
Mutual aid, class struggle, anti-authoritarianism mais également les questions d’gender identity or the denunciation of police brutality are my favourite subjects.
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Dans une optique anarchiste et une volonté d’accessibilité, I distribute my content for free.
All my work (except for commissions) is published under a Creatives Commons license..
In addition to this free sharingI offer paid services and prints for purchase.
Ce compromis gratuit/payant me permet (d’essayer) de vivre de mon travail tout en respectant au mieux mes convictions idéologiques.
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My creations are inspired by posters, maps and iconographic documents from the 1840s to the 1920s, and more particularly by Victorian, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau styles.
My aim is to make revolutionary propaganda by diverting the uses of advertising and by refusing the current norms of communication. This is reflected both in the choice of messages and in the refusal to respect the hierarchy of information and symbols of modern design.
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Loki Gwynbleidd House and its founder are present on other platforms and networks to shitpost spread Vintage and Anarchist Propaganda and discuss perspectives of struggles.
Find all the links to Loki Gwynbleidd on the linktree 
Techniques
Used to make the differents artworks.
The computer-generated visuals allow great creative freedom while providing a certain security (ctrl + Z my friend!)
For my posters, I base myself on old illustrations (engravings, lithographs, etc.) from which I draw inspiration for the composition and/or the rendering.
In order to recreate the vintage styles that I like, I use a combination of free brushes and textures copied from old documents.
Linocut is a technique of engraving on linoleum blocks (nowadays special gums can also be used).
Invented at the very beginning of the 20th century, it works in the same way as wood engraving, of which it is a relative: a support is carved out to make a stamp which is then inked and applied to a printing medium (paper, fabric, etc.)
This is a relief printing technique: only the retained parts are printed.
La typographie est un procédé inventé en Europe au XVe siècle mais largement inspiré de techniques mises au point en Asie des siècles plus tôt.
By arranging movable characters together (typesetting), the printing formt is created that can be printed on paper.
La typographie peut-être combinée avec d’autres techniques d’impression en reliefs comme la gravure sur bois ou la linogravure pour ajouter des images aux textes. Très souvent, on utilisait des clichés d’imprimerie (tampons) en métal pour cet usage.
Cyanotype is a fairly simple photographic process based on iron salts (traditional photography uses silver salts).
Invented in 1842, it allows images to be printed using the sun's UV light. To do this, it is sufficient to place objects or negatives on a paper covered with sensitizers in daylight for a certain period of time. The image is revealed by rinsing in water.
Cyanotype is non-toxic and produces blue monochrome images (Prussian blue pigment)
Equipment
Except for the typography, almost all content has been designed and thought out on a computer.
The digital posters and models are made on computer equipment and more specifically with :
- An XP Pen Artist 13 Pro graphics tablet
- a PC with AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 32 GB DDR4 RAM and a 1 TB SSD (plus 4 TB storage/backup)
- Free software (Krita for digital painting, Gimp for some effects and Darktable for post-processing)
The linocuts are produced using :
- Pfeil gouges
- Arkansas sharpening stones
- Essdee SoftCut blocks
- Essdee inkink rollers
- Charbonnel & Essdee inks
- DIY for guides, wedges and other small materials
- An EasyTypo proof press/flatten press
Je fais mes tirages cyanotypes avec :
- Jacquard sensitizers
- Aquapad watercolour paper from Clairefontaine
- Brushes
- Transparent film for making negatives
- Une lampe LED UV 50 watts