This exercise
involved reviewing all my work in my sketchbooks, notebooks and working
drawings and choosing images that I enjoy.
I scanned several
of these images, putting them into areas of authorial practice, discovering
once this had been done, that they mostly slotted into three catergories : -
Fashion and Accessories, Children’s Publishing and Decorative Illustration.
Examples of Fashion and Accessories Images
Examples of Children’s Publishing Images
Examples of Decorative Illustration Images.
The main image I
chose was one I had designed for a greetings card to introduce myself to my
tutor in assignment one.
I thought this
would be good as an image on a t-shirt, particularly for adults who have an
interest in signs of the zodiac, and personalized presents for loved ones, so I
had one printed through Vistaprint, an online company that specializes in
promotional printing, such as business cards, pens, t-shirts etc.
Vistaprint was the cheapest one I found online,
and they did single garment printing, which was ideal as I only wanted one.
The image printed on the t-shirt front, and words
printed on the rear.
The image would be
good on several different background colours, and tried out different ones
before I ordered the white background.
The colours
reproduced well, but I did feel that once it was done it could have been
cropped a little bit tighter so that only the central image of the crab and
blue background were used, to give it a wider use, possibly on promotional
material for a business i.e. a seafood restaurant on menus, aprons, logos etc.
As well as the
image produced on the t-shirt I gathered some of the other images together in
the Children’s publishing catergory, and put them into a booklet to be used as
a portfolio of my children’s book illustrations.
Front and Back of Booklet
Inside Pages
This could be
added to at a later date, professionally printed and finally sent to
illustration agencies for some freelance work, a good way to showcase what I
can do in this area.
In conclusion I am
happy with the t-shirt I had printed with my logo, it was good to see how my
image could be used, and how it could be improved.
