Disaster

Well today was an absolute catastrophe with regard to my screenprint. After spending 3 days doing the drawings it was agonisingly frustrating when the black outline proved too fine resulting in it breaking up when printed. This means I have to take more time out of the website brief which I haven't been able to start yet because of this+the SSN logo which is really annoying as I had a strict timetable set out. The workload is just not seeming to let up at all which is getting a bit stressful as I don't feel like i'm getting anywhere despite working my socks off.

However I can't let this frustration and negativity damage my work at this stage though as I have too much to do to get distracted. I'm going to take the elements of my screenprint that did work and use my lightbox to work on them, drawing the missing outline back in so that it is part screenprint and part one off illustration. This may actually end up looking pretty good if I execute it well so all is not lost. I am also going to simplify the drawings so they are just the birds. I had tried to add a little jokey element as I thought the illustrations of birds were a bit plain on their own but the simplicity of the image of the bird on its own actually worked quite well and the extras just looked like clutter so in a way this wasted day has allowed me to improve the prints.

I'm going to do this tomorrow as well as some research into some lush websites of designers and illustrators.