I have just finished my first technical block! In this block I learnt to do things I had never done before. Our two week block was split into one week of digital printing and a second week of silk screen printing.
Being the only person in my class who had never before used photoshop I found this very challenging. I find working on computers difficult to manoeuvre and quite honestly.. boring. So as you can imagine I did not have high hopes for the coming photoshop orientated week. But with the help of my teacher and the other girls in my class I began to slowly get the hang of it.
We were initially shown how to work our way around the photoshop app before scanning our mark makings from our swatch books. These marks, which I put so little time or effort into were suddenly transformed. We were taught to pattern repeat, mirror, change the colour of our new patterns, ect. All of a sudden, I had a professional and impressive looking pattern, which I was very proud of! Seeing the potential of photoshop and what can be produced when you play around a little bit gave me a new found respect and interest for the block I previously deemed uninteresting and confusing. I realised how important it is for us, as textiles students, to be taught to use photoshop.
On the second day of digital print we were taught to cut and trim our new patterns and turn the into clothing for fashion illustrations. We traced photos from magazines and scanned them. We had to make four patterns and at least one fashion illustration. I did find this block difficult and hard to get the hang of and it took me way too long to complete the set work, but I’m so happy I have now done it, and have a much better understanding of photoshop and digital print under my belt!
These are some patterns I created on photoshop using scans from my swatch book:
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