DIGITAL PRINT

During week three at Ravensbourne, we learnt about digital print. This consisted of taking on the many challenges of Photoshop, the process and development of coming up with our own original print ideas and how to display it onto an actual garment via Photoshop. Overall working out how to use Photoshop from scratch was difficult to grasp as it had so many different aspects to it. However, I relished in the moments I had done something right especially the feeling of triumph when I managed to make a repeat pattern (amateur).

The brief behind our own personal prints was to generate 3-5 prints for selection that reference a 'group or family' of prints. They had to reflect or be inspired by family history whether it be through ethnicity, geography- journey/travel/language or even evocative- family secrets, loss, reward.

I chose to focus my prints on my family background and our place of origin. Being from all over the Caribbean, I decided to make my own floral print but rather than use the usual roses etc. I chose to use tropical flowers such as the Birds of Paradise, Anthurium and Plumerias. I changed the sizes and grouped them together to create a small bouquet and made a repeat of it. I then placed it onto a black background to really make the colours pop.  

My tropical floral print:

 

I think for a beginner it went better than I expected however I would love to work on this and create some more prints with more time. As a placemen print it looks a lot better than as a repeat. I would change the repeat, sizes and play around with the colours. What would have helped was if I had written notes as I went along, then I would have had a greater result. Overall it was lovely to learn and experience another aspect of the industry and really delve into the process. Not too sure it was for me but with more time and assistance from a few YouTube tutorials, I'm sure I could become the next Mary Kantrantzou.