Sunday, 22 May 2016
22/05/16
pin pins pins! (and badges)
I started gluing the pins and pin backs to the little pieces of plastic. At first I used copydex glue, I'd gone to a hardware store and asked the man in there what kind of glue would be best for gluing metal to plastic and he suggested that, however after a day of wearing my little tester pin, it broke! and the glue peeled away like thick pva, so I decided to go with the good old trusty super glue and they seem to be perfectly stuck in place.
I also made a badge order this week, I designed some little circle illustrations and emailed them to 'made by lucy' who made my badges and delivered them to me within a couple days!! super super super easy process, I really want to make more orders from her in the future.
and stickers! I did so much this week it seems, I created the photoshop document for my stickers a couple weeks ago but I've been waiting for a friend to finish her sticker designs so that we could go and use the sticker machine together as it's easier and cheaper to do it in groups, I took our images to the printing room at the knighstone campus and we got the stickers printed, super quick simple and easy. Then all I had to do was cut them out!
So everything has been made! now I just need to package everything, I've bought some ziplock bags to put the badges and stickers in, and I want to place the pins on pieces of card and fasten the pin in place with the pin back. I decided to hand make the packaging and it turned out to be an incredibly painful and tedious process but I got it all done in one day (a WHOLE day of packaging) and they look super cute!
I started gluing the pins and pin backs to the little pieces of plastic. At first I used copydex glue, I'd gone to a hardware store and asked the man in there what kind of glue would be best for gluing metal to plastic and he suggested that, however after a day of wearing my little tester pin, it broke! and the glue peeled away like thick pva, so I decided to go with the good old trusty super glue and they seem to be perfectly stuck in place.
I also made a badge order this week, I designed some little circle illustrations and emailed them to 'made by lucy' who made my badges and delivered them to me within a couple days!! super super super easy process, I really want to make more orders from her in the future.
and stickers! I did so much this week it seems, I created the photoshop document for my stickers a couple weeks ago but I've been waiting for a friend to finish her sticker designs so that we could go and use the sticker machine together as it's easier and cheaper to do it in groups, I took our images to the printing room at the knighstone campus and we got the stickers printed, super quick simple and easy. Then all I had to do was cut them out!
So everything has been made! now I just need to package everything, I've bought some ziplock bags to put the badges and stickers in, and I want to place the pins on pieces of card and fasten the pin in place with the pin back. I decided to hand make the packaging and it turned out to be an incredibly painful and tedious process but I got it all done in one day (a WHOLE day of packaging) and they look super cute!
15/05/16
Vista Print
So this was a super simple but very fun process. I already had my images scanned into the computer and all I had to do was create photoshop documents and upload them into vistaprint and try them out on all the different products they had to offer! I made 1 design (for both cacti and sushi) of them just in a line, that I could wrap around mugs and print across postcards etc. after designing those products, I had a look at putting the design on baseball caps! and a few other things.
I then started to create a grid pattern for each illustration to print on the cover of notebooks. After uploading all of these images and placing them onto the products I wanted to order, I just picked how many of each I wanted and payed! I ordered about 5 of the cacti mugs so that I had one for my display and a few to put in a mexican shop in clifton so that I could see how my products would do, selling in actual shops, I also made a few more cacti t-shirts and postcards to put them in the same shop.
I also started the pin making process this week, all I did was create the photoshop document in order to print the images I wanted to make into pins and email it to myself so that I could print it with an inkjet printer once I'd gone home. After printing, cutting and cooking my shrinkle paper and found that the pieces had come out way too dark and a little too big, so I went back into photoshop and edited my documents, I made all the illustrations a little bit smaller (leaving a bit of room to fit a couple more in) and made them all lighter/ brighter so that they would come out the colour I wanted them when I cooked them. They came out perfectly this time, now I need to glue the pins in place.
So this was a super simple but very fun process. I already had my images scanned into the computer and all I had to do was create photoshop documents and upload them into vistaprint and try them out on all the different products they had to offer! I made 1 design (for both cacti and sushi) of them just in a line, that I could wrap around mugs and print across postcards etc. after designing those products, I had a look at putting the design on baseball caps! and a few other things.
I then started to create a grid pattern for each illustration to print on the cover of notebooks. After uploading all of these images and placing them onto the products I wanted to order, I just picked how many of each I wanted and payed! I ordered about 5 of the cacti mugs so that I had one for my display and a few to put in a mexican shop in clifton so that I could see how my products would do, selling in actual shops, I also made a few more cacti t-shirts and postcards to put them in the same shop.
I also started the pin making process this week, all I did was create the photoshop document in order to print the images I wanted to make into pins and email it to myself so that I could print it with an inkjet printer once I'd gone home. After printing, cutting and cooking my shrinkle paper and found that the pieces had come out way too dark and a little too big, so I went back into photoshop and edited my documents, I made all the illustrations a little bit smaller (leaving a bit of room to fit a couple more in) and made them all lighter/ brighter so that they would come out the colour I wanted them when I cooked them. They came out perfectly this time, now I need to glue the pins in place.
08/05/16
printing printing printing!
I spent a couple days this week screen printing all my t-shirt and tote-bags, I actually finished all of them a lot quicker than I was expecting to so I have way more time to start everything else.
Having two different screens made the process flow a lot smoother, because whenever I'd finished with one screen/ colour, I would wash it off and leave it to dry while I started printing with the other screen and by the time I'd finished with that one the other would be dry. A couple mistakes were made, but nothing garment ruining, and I quite like the hand made feel it gives them, a couple had little marks of printing ink that had leaked through other parts of the screen, nothing major :)
I spent a couple days this week screen printing all my t-shirt and tote-bags, I actually finished all of them a lot quicker than I was expecting to so I have way more time to start everything else.
Having two different screens made the process flow a lot smoother, because whenever I'd finished with one screen/ colour, I would wash it off and leave it to dry while I started printing with the other screen and by the time I'd finished with that one the other would be dry. A couple mistakes were made, but nothing garment ruining, and I quite like the hand made feel it gives them, a couple had little marks of printing ink that had leaked through other parts of the screen, nothing major :)
Monday, 2 May 2016
01/05/16
I found a room! no longer planning for the life of a homeless student :)
Ordered some totebags, t-shirts and shrinkle paper on amazon this week so and a few packages have already arrived, hoping the others will come before the weekend is over. I also printed out some acetate sheets for my screen prints to be made so hoping they'll be ready for my to get started with on tuesday, if not I think I'm gonna get started on some sticker making
Ordered some totebags, t-shirts and shrinkle paper on amazon this week so and a few packages have already arrived, hoping the others will come before the weekend is over. I also printed out some acetate sheets for my screen prints to be made so hoping they'll be ready for my to get started with on tuesday, if not I think I'm gonna get started on some sticker making
24/04/16
So I got into Falmouth Uni, but didn't get into halls. Which is why I spent a lot of my half term working aaand, house hunting. Not really going well, starting to think about how hard it would be to do illustration coursework in a tent...
Got a lot more drawing done over the holidays than I was expecting to and I can't wait to start drawing up designs and start MAKING.
Got a lot more drawing done over the holidays than I was expecting to and I can't wait to start drawing up designs and start MAKING.
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