I have recently taken a printmaking class called Photo Intaglio in the Digital Age under Paul Mullowney. It's been a great class for learning an old printmaking process with a rich history--Photogravure. For those of you who do not know: 

Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph.

If you want to know more, check out wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogravure

Later in the semester, I wanted to combine the photography element of photogravure with painting/drawing. And then I started to focus on directgravure.

A few of my early prints, learning the process. Had a problem in which a plethora of small dots kept appearing on my gelatin (not air bubbles). Still do not know what was the cause...

The first plate that I was satisfied with:

Without wiping the plate:

Green Ink:

Two colored print (A la poupee):

After printing the film negative, I scratched off the ink to create these images--

Drawings on ghost prints:

First time with direct gravure. One side is a photograph, the other is a painting.

Made this on the back of a plate, so the scratches are intended:

 Green ink:

Yellow ink:

Direct Gravure-- Painted this raven with sumi ink onto calligraphy paper. Then used that paper instead of a film negative to expose and adhere to copper plate:

Made this one as a gift to my bro and cousins. I call it Zodiac because its supposed to represent each of us (corny I know...)
After I printed this one, I colored it with watercolor:

Used a process called chine colle to add japanese gampi paper to the prints:

Made my own handmade business cards. The front is photogravure and the back is calligraphy.