#SFDesignADay - 7-9

Day 9 - Free Software

I used Canva

Day 8 - Photographic

I used a photograph of logs

Day 7 - Vector

I made this drawing to clean up in vector. I used Inkscape to trace the drawing but I didn't know how to alter things after that or how to save the vector as a jpeg for this blog. It would take me a long time to learn it, longer than I had to do this drawing. But I am learning a bit about vector drawing with my cutter software so maybe one day I will get the hang of it, but for now I would say I failed on this challenge.

Bird T-shirt

I used one of my motif designs for this t-shirt which I had printed at Zazzle. These same birds but on a background were featured on my 2014 calendar tea towel which is still hanging in my kitchen.

Zazzle shop.

From Sketch to Fabric

The fabric was for a competition entry a few years ago [while I was at college in 2005] held by the Bradford Textile Society, for digitally printed fabric [section 2] - my theme was Games. I started with painting a board and I collaged cut & torn papers. Then everything was scanned into the computer, and I separated the images from the background and arranged them on the screen. Other drawings were added and also an image of an old games board and after lots and lots of experimentation I arranged them so that the pattern would repeat. [Trial and error, although there was a program at college which could do repeats, I never did get the hang of it, (although I must admit I only ever tried it once - it wouldn't repeat in a way I wanted it to!)]

I had to show the design on boards in different colourways






And the finished design was printed on linen at college [CCAD] on one of those big digital textile printers.I was awarded a commendation by the Bradford Textile Society.