Project 5 - End of Project

I've been quite bad at updating this blog because I've had lots to do for the text as pattern project that didn't seem to stop until my final presentation today, so I never felt like I wanted to write about what I had done. The project is finished now and I'm quite happy with my final four textile plans.

After my last post I did a bit more work mainly using the computer; making drawings and stencils/scanning them in/altering them on photoshop and making things I think look like good repeat patterns. I think using a few different techniques for the same image has created things that look a lot different to what I started with, I like that. And I think it is definitely important to use different techniques - just using a c

omputer makes everything so graphic and harsh, just using drawings, to me, doesn't seem like something that is finished or prepared to print on to a piece of material.

I chose to work on this project for a print. I have heard people say print is the favourite because it is the easiest, but I think my work would definitely look best printed. And I don't actually think print is the easiest, maybe it could be the easiest technique for some people out of the four specialisms, but the design process that happens before I get to the point of actually making something has always been for me as easy or as difficult as I make it myself.

Through scanning things in and editing them on photoshop I feel like my colour palette has changed slightly, but naturally. I could easily change that but I don't really want to - I like the idea of things taking on their own look through the process.