Digital print.

Using Photoshop is a skill I really enjoy. Although it’s not working with your hands so much in a creative way, I still find it an extremely creative process. I’ve been manipulating images for a few years now, more so with photography, so I have a good understanding of how Photoshop works.

For this block we were asked to complete two digital scarf designs using our drawings. This is great to actually have an item printed and go through the whole design and print process using our own ideas.

I was especially excited by Damien Hirst’s butterfly kaleidoscope designs. They’re so colourful and complex and designed using Photoshop. I choose to use this style but I needed to make sure they were a true representation of my own work, not just a copy. I did this by cutting scanning in my butterfly’s which I cut out of magazines. Then arranging them in a circular pattern I could create my own kaleidoscope motif.