Showing posts with label digital print. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital print. Show all posts
Research: B
Analysis: B
Subject Knowledge: B
Experimentation: B
Technical Competence: B
Communication and Presentation: B
Personal and Professional Development: B
Collaborative and/or Independent Professional Working: C
‘Clearly presented work. You have worked intelligently and well at every stage of this project and consequently have produced a large body of work. Very good experimentation and you quickly personalised your response to the project. Confident and lively exploration of colour. Interesting use of the folding and pleating, in fact you have many ideas which you could have developed. You have worked on your toils and used your print in conjunction with other fabrics, so a lot of thought went into that. A lively body of work’
After designing a simple, repeat pattern, I decided that it would be better to have a more spontaneous pattern which included various size spots overlapping each other, as this best represented the kaleidoscope inspired research.
Regarding colour, we narrowed it down to the contrasting colours of blue and orange. The top I designed was going to be heavily orange whilst the woven skirt seas heavily blue with subtle hints or orange.
The fabric I used was a polyester silk-impression that was printed onto, with polyester chiffon sleeves and a polyester satin. Ideally, I would have liked to use actual silks and satins rather than polyester based ones, but due to costing, I had to use polyester.
The top fastens at the back of the neck with hook and eyes and the back of the peplum fastens with a zip.
Research: B
Analysis: B
Subject Knowledge: B
Experimentation: B
Technical Competence: B
Communication and Presentation: B
Personal and Professional Development: B
Well handled CAD designs, showing a variety of techniques, ideas of layout. Good ability to create patterns and creative ideas. Careful and well executed points showing good repeat skills and overlays. Well handled!
The print workshop was focused on screen printing and digital printing. Screen printing is something I’ve done so many times, it’s like the back of my hand. Where as with digital, I’ve only ever dabbled, mainly in inductions.
I really enjoyed the digital print. Using marks made in the drawing workshop which were scanned into the computer, I used various techniques on photoshop, such as different blending options and colour changing, to produce a shape which I then repeated. I then used this pattern and place it onto a model.
I didn’t enjoy screen printing as much. I think this was because we used stencils rather than exposing the screens. Because of this, I felt that my work was very hit and miss. However, I very much enjoyed mixing our own colours of dyes, although it was frustrating to try and match the correct colour
