My Written Critical Analysis of Final Print

I have come to understand that digital print is become very common within the fashion industry, it’s a quick way to create something beautiful and eye catching. The advantages of being a young designer using digital prints is that I can use modern day Influences to create interesting prints.

My interpretation of Exhibiting the Everyday, I photographed things I used every day, Keys, cutlery, money as all of these are thing everybody uses every day. My main influences would be my primary photographs using cutlery for most of my everyday objects, I focused on the taking images from different angles and developed that further.

The arrangement of my final print, the composition works well with the shapes and contrasting colors with an element of shine. I do believe I have interpreted the brief, Exhibiting the Everyday, by including the actual shapes of My objects within my print. I do believe the print is work pleasing and works well as a whole although it’s not quite worked out how I had envisioned.

The process in which I made my print started with the postcards I had created, I scanned a number of postcards in to Photoshop, layering the ones I liked best I then duplicated a section of one of my postcards many times creating a pattern using small spoons, I then used the liquify and oil painting filters and changed the contrast of the images I also used the vivid light effect. At this point it was missing the element of shine so I decided to use a section of one of my primary photographs of metal cutlery in the background this then gave my print the slight element of shine. I do think I used a wide range of tools considering I’ve had no previous experience with Photoshop. In the beginning my prints seemed a little darker and not quite what I had expected but the more I worked on Photoshop the more I could experiment using different tools. This process has really helped me understand and get to know Photoshop and improve my skills.

My final print is effective, the blue /purple colors with the element of shine I would say have made the print interesting to look at, although I’m not quite sure how it will look on the actually fabric. As I have taken in to consideration where my print will be placed on my dress carefully to ensure the composition looks right, I believe it would meet the industry’s expectations.

My CAD skills have come so far from not knowing how to use Photoshop, I can now create prints for fashion garments and I have a good understanding of how to use illustrator I am pleasantly pleased with myself and the final outcome as a whole.

 

Looking all my final print I don’t believe that my personal style has developed, although I Do like the colors in my print they are not the usual type of colors I would use. My final print is unique I don’t believe I’ve come across any similar prints. What I like most is the fact this print was created by using my primary images of cutlery and developing it all myself, the part of my print that works best is the middle section were the brightness on the metallic cutlery has come through. This has brightened and made my print look a lot more vibrant. The one thing I would do differently is create brighter postcards as I believe the colors would differ and completely change the look of my print, doing this would develop my personal style.