New Digital Designs...

I have started to build up a collection of more commercial digital designs, to strengthen my portfolio. I am most comfortable drawing by hand and then scanning these into Photoshop, then editing and creating compositions or repeats, but I have started to find other ways to design by using my IPad to draw onto, or just scanning in ink textures or shapes then adding colour with brushes on Photoshop, this allows me to create a wider range of designs.

This is a part of a design I did today, using sketches of flowers and adding the colours on Photoshop.

I really loved my 3 weeks at the Amanda Kelly studio, I felt like I really learnt a lot from my time there and it really inspired me to work on and update my portfolio, although I have not had the time yet! I was really amazed by the embroideries there and saw techniques I had never thought of using!




I was set a little project of drawing sketchy flowers ( I took photos of them below) inspired from the catwalk. I then got to see these put  into a final design which was really interesting.

I was really happy with these drawings as I have never tried to draw flowers in such a stylized way before and I would like to experiment with more styled drawings. Being able to see the stages of the design process and even some of the simplest textures being made in to really gorgeous prints has opened my eyes up to designing differently and really making the most out of any mark making and  that strengthening my Photoshop skills would be really important!

Pressing Flowers

For my minor project I wanted to use pressed flowers, so to speed up the process i made a cardboard press and microwaved them!