Feather Workbook

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Design 2 Inspired by the couples love for entertainment and exo:c animals I wanted to include a design based on feathers

description

Development of feather fabric

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Design  2  Inspired  by  the  couples  love  for  

entertainment  and  exo:c  animals  I  wanted  to  include  a  design  based  on  

feathers  

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Feather  scan  I  decide  to  start  this  project  by  scanning  an  image  of  several  feathers,    which  I  then  put  through  the  graphic  pen  filter  in  photoshop  in  order  to  show  as  much  detail  as  possible  as  it  as  quite  subtle  on  the  original  image.  

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Feather  images  I  then  used  the  scanned  image  to  help  me  draw  a  series  of  feathers  to  turn  into  a  paAern  repeat  using  a  hatching  technique  with  fine  liner.  

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Layout  experiments    I  started  by  scanning  the  drawings  into  photoshop  and  playing  with  the  layouts,  star:ng  with  various  linear  forma:ons  but  I  ended  up  deciding  on  a  more  linear  forma:on.  

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Colour  and  Filter  experiments    In  order  to  make  the  style  of  the  image  match  up  a  liAle  beAer  with  the  toile  design  I  started  playing  with  various  colours  and  styles  which  might  suit  both  designs,  for  the  most  part  staying  within  the  blue  and  grey  colour  scheme  but  occasionally  adding  greens  and  reds  to  see  if  I  could  make  a  more  interes:ng  image.    

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Layered  blue  and  Green  

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Grey  filter    

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Blue  filter  

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Notepaper  filter-­‐  grey  and  blue  

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Green  and  blue  notepad  filter  

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Red  and  blue  notepad  filter  

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Greyscale  

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Scale  experiments  and  drawing  on  with  silver  pen  Here  I  printed  out  the  designs  in  various  sizes  to  try  and  figure  out  the  best  size  for  the  design,  I  decided  that  the  wallpaper  would  probably  be  more  effec:ve  on  the  larger  scale  and  the  fabric  on  a  smaller  scale.  At    this  point  I  also  decided  to  experiment  with  drawing  into  the  print  outs  in  silver  pen  to  see  if  I  could  get  an  interes:ng  effect  but  the  result  was  quite  messy.    

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Screen  PrinBng  I  like  the  sketchy  effect  of  the  design  so  far  but  It  is  a  bit  wiry  and  I  decided  that  I  could  probably  get  a  more  interes:ng  effect  is  I  made  it  into  a  screen  print,  having  already  played  with  scale  I  was  aware  that  this  would  be  a  big  design  so  as  this  was  my  first  screen  prin:ng  experiment  I  decided  to  only  draw  up  part  of  the  design  for  the  ini:al  samples  to  see  if  the  design  would  work  ,  the  effect  works  really  nicely  and  creates  a  much  cleaner  finish  then  the  drawings  that  have  been  used  so  far.  

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layering  Here  I  have  used  the  same  design  but  I  have  used  a  darker  ink  underneith  and  a  metallic  ink  slightly  offset  on  top  which  created  a  really  nice  effect,  the  design  works  really  well  in  this  purple  colour  but  doesn't’t  follow  the  colour  scheme,  however  as  the  company  are  likely  to  print  the  design  in  several  colours  a  purple  colour  scheme  would  be  a  good    

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Working  in  Pen  Again  I  decided  to  experiment  with  what  the  design  would  look  like  if  I  drew  into  it  with  metallic  pen,  unfortunately  it  isn't  as  effec:ve  as  the  original  screen  print.  

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Ink  Techniques  Here  I  decided  to  try  and  blend  the  silver  and  purple  inks  across  the  design  to  see  if  I  could  create  an  interes:ng  effect  however  the  streaky  effect  does’t  work  very  well,  mostly  because  the  silver  is  too  light  and  it  is  hard  to  see  the  silver  part  of  the  design.    

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Blue  Having  decided  that  layering  a  lighter  metallic  ink  on  top  of  a  dark  ink  produces  the  most  interes:ng  effect  I  then  mixed  up  blue  inks  which  go  beAer  with  the  original  colour  scheme    

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Final    Wallpaper    Design  

Having  had  success  with  the  samples  I  drew  up  a  large  screen  with  the  whole  paAern  repeat  I  feathered  the  edges  of  the  design  do  that  when  the  repeat  was  printed  there  was  no  risk  of  a  clear  line  at  the  edges  of  the  repeat.  Screen  prin:ng  the  design    was  a  but  more  difficult  to  undertake  then  the  samples  as  the  screen  was  too  big  to  print  by  hand  so  I  had  to  pull  the  ink  through  with  the  help  of  a  special  arm,  I  also  had  to  line  the  design  up  so  that  the  paAern  would  repeat  on  the  wallpaper  seamlessly,  in  order  to  do  this  I  had  to  first  set  up  my  screen  and  print  onto  a  piece  of  draKing  film  which  was  stuck  in  the  exact  place  the  design  fell  which  allowed  me  to  successfully  line  the  edges  of  the  design  up.  The  dark  layer  went  on  successfully  but  the  offset  layers  were  occasionally  a  bit  messy  with  the  occasional  mistake  being  made  in  lining  up  the  designs  but  I  printed  a  large  amount  so  that  I  would  have  a  neat  sample  to  present.  I  also  ended  up  with  three  layers  rather  then  two  as  my  first  aAempt  at  the  metallic  ink  was  too  light,  but  it  gives  a  really  nice  shadow  effect  to  the  design  which  works  beAer  then  the  original  two  layers    

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Digital  manipulaBon  The  screen  print  facility  is  only  equipped  for  paper  and  not  fabric  so  the  design  ill  have  to  be  digitally  printed  onto  fabric,  this  proved  to  be  more  difficult  o  achieve  because  of  the  scale  of  the  design  it  was  hard  to  get  a  good  quality  scan  or  photo  of  the  design  without  areas  of  the  f  the  design  disappearing  whilst  ligh:ng  the  background  so  I  had  to  spend  a  lot  of  :me  Photoshop-­‐ing  out  grey  areas  and  then  drawing  in  parts  of  the  design  so  that  the  colour  would  be  even  and  the  paAern  would  repeat  smoothly.  

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In  the  end  I  had  to  chn  

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Final  fabric  design    The  final  fabric  design  as  put  through  the  same  colour  filters  and  halKone  filter  as  the  final  toile  fabric  design  meaning  that  they  should  go  well  together  the  only  problem  will  be  that  as  all  of  my  designs  are  using  different  print  methods  it  is  unlikely  that  I  will  be  able  to  successfully  match  the  colours