During my initial designs, I focused on the arrangement of
my motifs. I have been concentrating on creating a wide variety of motifs and
some consist of a few variations. I feel that I'm not being as free as I should
be because I'm too focused on making decisions on composition. I also felt that
I had too many colours in my colour palette so I have refined it, as some of
them weren't contributing to the overall feel I wished to achieve.
I also encountered a
problem with my motifs; Because I have crated them on my own laptop, it appears
that a few of them have been defined with a shaded background. This isn't
visible on my own computer but is in the ones in the art school (because the
screens are better). This has made me loose time I was trying to save by
creating my motifs at home, however I can resolve them by using illustrator and
the image trace setting. As annoying as this is, I'm glad I noticed the problem
early in the project. I have also taken this as an opportunity to refine my
motifs. I thought that by having a lot it would make designing easier, however
now I think it's actually harder; they don't tend to appear consistent in my
designs as I though a few would overlap throughout. On the other hand, if I was
working freelance then my motifs couldn't reoccur in different designs.
I have concentrated
on creating a very direct translation of the images I am working from, but in
my group project I found it a lot easier to be more experimental with my
designs. This had led me to the conclusion that during Unit X I will create
motifs that can consist of a more tonal range because I enjoyed working with
the shaded/ textured motifs in the group project.
