My final two patterns, in blue hues
These patterns, including the red original placed onto white templates
Today was the final day of the digital printing, and I feel I got the hang of it and enjoyed the day as a whole. Pre-planning and sketching out my patterns really helped me visualise what to do with them on the mannequin. We were split into groups of four to work on the mannequins, so although my chosen pattern colour was red, the majority of my group had blue patterns so we made an informed decision to recolour all of our patterns so that everyone's had blue hues. This was a great idea and made our final product look well finished and thought out.
I decided to start off the placing of our paper prints on the mannequin as I felt it is easier to create something on a started canvas, so even though we decided to move it off once we placed others it relaxed everyone into the task and we all experimented with new ways of putting the patterns on.
I felt it was difficult working in a group in this sense as well all were worried about cutting or folding others patterns just in case they didn't want us to. However I think it's important to be able to work in a group for many reasons; being able to work in a group means you can bounce off each others ideas, learn and find out new ways to do something, perhaps a way that you might not have considered yourself. Another reason is learning to give and take constructive criticism. This, I feel was the most important aspect of our group mini project, I got feedback on both my 'final' designs, all positive. People commented on the interesting composition and shapes produced in my glue print (right image) meaning I followed my theme correctly, and made the mundane interesting. Other feedback included well matched colours and intriguing layered patterns. Dan agreed with these comments, giving me confirmation which I was extremely appreciative of.
In future digital printing, Dan told us to never work off a template like the examples of the images above as it shows a lack of imagination, this was great advice and has inspired me to translate these quick fixes into real designs, perhaps to then print off and try to make from paper. The original paper sculpting workshop helped me a lot during the final day of digital printing, I used techniques like attaching the pieces together before pinning them onto the mannequin.
I felt it was difficult working in a group in this sense as well all were worried about cutting or folding others patterns just in case they didn't want us to. However I think it's important to be able to work in a group for many reasons; being able to work in a group means you can bounce off each others ideas, learn and find out new ways to do something, perhaps a way that you might not have considered yourself. Another reason is learning to give and take constructive criticism. This, I feel was the most important aspect of our group mini project, I got feedback on both my 'final' designs, all positive. People commented on the interesting composition and shapes produced in my glue print (right image) meaning I followed my theme correctly, and made the mundane interesting. Other feedback included well matched colours and intriguing layered patterns. Dan agreed with these comments, giving me confirmation which I was extremely appreciative of.
In future digital printing, Dan told us to never work off a template like the examples of the images above as it shows a lack of imagination, this was great advice and has inspired me to translate these quick fixes into real designs, perhaps to then print off and try to make from paper. The original paper sculpting workshop helped me a lot during the final day of digital printing, I used techniques like attaching the pieces together before pinning them onto the mannequin.
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