Fri 03.05.13

I spent a long time last night painting my remaining 2 design tiles so that I could scan them in for digital work today. I was able to get pretty far with them and worked quite a lot faster than with my first design but I feel that the overall quality suffered a little because of this. However, any smudges or mistakes can hopefully be taken out when the images are in Photoshop. I didn’t finish them during the course of the evening so I had to get up early before the lecture to work on them some more and then spent some time afterwards as well until about 2pm when I took them into the Mac suite to put them into Photoshop.

The lecture was about the final 3 weeks of the course and I have made lots of notes in my lecture book about the information we were given. It was reassuring to have a much clearer picture about what was expected of us in the days to come and exactly when our deadlines were. 

I managed to get most of the work done on my designs before my tutorial later this afternoon and I was able to show Claire the work I had done using Photoshop. She showed me how to set the correct measurements for how I would want the fabric to print and gave me some more information about sending it. I had been rushing because yesterday she said that it would be a good idea to get it sent by the end of today but she said that if I sent it now it wouldn’t get printed until the bank holiday. However I am glad that I had a deadline and worked hard to get it finished because at least now it is done.

 I also showed Claire the rest of my work that I had done since we last spoke and asked a few questions about how it might be improved or what more I might need to do. I usually prepare a list of questions before a tutorial but because I had been working non-stop to try and get my designs ready to send off for printing I had not had time to do this and so I felt that I didn’t really get the most out of it. Claire said that if I had time I could consider adding some sort of simple colour to some of my drawn designs because otherwise they might be overlooked when my work was being marked. I told her that I was also unsure about what to display at the exhibition and she advised that I keep generating work and that she and the other tutors would be on hand on the day to help us decide how and what to hang.