Final Designs & Evaluation

Here are a few of my final designs, I have mixed up both my drawings from the beginning and tried to mesh them both I have also used the influences from my first original disposable camera pictures. I think I have tried to mix my elements together well I am pleased with my final outcomes. I have tried to find a nice medium between the subtle colours from the beginning and the bright colours in my second set of drawings and mixed them so theres a mixture of dark light subtle and bright. Although I feel this might not be my best work so far I feel that I have proven that I have taken a risk in making all my final outcomes digital based as thats something I have not done before without help. I have aimed these designs at mainly a young female audience 16+ and I feel that my designs have a bohemian and floral feel to them which I think does reach out to that particular audience. I think my work does show a journey as I have tried to make the work from the beginning a part of the final outcome and I have tried include all the influences and research I collected on my travels. I feel that I have learnt a lot on this unit and will definitely be using these skills in the future. I will make sure to post a picture of my board once I have put my work up!

Interior

Ive been taking pictures of interiors that I think would look good with my wallpaper designs in the back but after photoshoping them I felt they didn't look the way I had imagined them to so it resulted in drawings which I then scanned into Illustrator and drew again. Then in photoshop I placed my wall paper designs in the back. I will only probably have one or two up on the wall but I have made a few for my blog to show the different designs and perspectives. I feel these designs I have made can be used in many different ways such as wallpaper, wrapping paper, notebook covers. They could fit in shops like Paperchase where patterns and illustrations like these are commonly found. They can also be used for cushion covers and bed sheets and also porcelain.

Photoshop Workshop

Today we had another photoshop workshop where we learnt how to make repeat patterns to and use the half drop repeat. This was a very good workshop as it helped me decide what i wanted to carry on and do for my final pieces Its helped me decide how to go about mixing the elements of both my drawings together into a final outcome. I have learnt a lot in this workshop and I feel its made me a little more confident in using more digital as I now know my way around photoshop a little. My Photoshop ability is improving massively and i feel that tghis will benefit me in my future as I think knowing these skills are vital as the technology is improving andlearning these skills are becoming a necessity Here are a few prints I have made using this workshop. I am really pleased with the results.

Developing work

Over this last week I've been thinking about how to mix the two elements of my two sets of drawings together and I've made a few samples that I am not impressed with and doubt i will have them as final samples although I may use elements of each drawing and maybe include it in my final final piece. I tried to use sections of other drawings in these drawings which I think were unsuccessful but I feel that the gradient tool parts are good and I will continue to use that in my future pieces.

work so far & tutorial

We had a tutorial today and I was able to speak to alex about my work so far, these drawings are my favourite so far and I think the represent my research and all my influences that i have talked about before. I have used traditional paisley and henna motifs in my drawings and i have also used these colours as my foundation to begin working on my final outcomes. The feedback was mainly good Alex said to mix the drawings i had done at the beginning with these ones and also maybe make the colours a little more subtle. 

Seer-sucker Workshop

I decided to along to a Print room workshop as I haven't been to one yet because I have decided to take a risk and not use the print room this time (I have used it many times in the past) and opted to using more digital in my work as I feel I am not very confident in using Photoshop because of my lack of experience. So we had a seer-sucker workshop which was very interesting although I won't be using it in this project I probably will in the future! Teresa showed us how to make the mixture and explained how to be careful and what containers to use as it gets dangerously hot and is a very toxic formula. Once she had done the whole mixing procedure she used showed us how to use it by using the screen. the results were very interesting as wherever you placed the mixture the fabric would scrunch up and make a interesting effect! I didn't take any pictures unfortunately but heres one I have found online which is similar.