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Creativity & Design Blog Post #54/7/2018 This week, I started my final project. This blog includes the process of transferring my design onto the fabric so I have a template to follow when I embroider. Creative Strategies The biggest strategy that I used this week was planning and pre-visualizing my process. This was largely because I was filming myself and wanted to depict everything that I was doing. I made a list of the steps to follow in my video and had to redo some actions so that they were clear on the video. Creative Process Below is the video I took while transferring the design. It includes supplies and me tracing the design onto the fabric. In the spirit of keeping this project manageable, I am using a design that I made last semester. I created this illustration for an intaglio print for my printmaking class. I think it will translate great to embroidery. I used white transfer paper since my fabric is black. Below is the transfer. I had two issues with this. One had to do with the video and one with the actual process of transferring the design. First, I have never recorded myself in real life doing art, so I had to figure out angles. At first, I forgot to put the camera to my left. Since I'm right-handed, you wouldn't be able to see what I'm doing with the camera on the right. That's why part way through my video the camera angle changes because I realized this. I was further constrained by my space. Due to the height of the table I was using, I couldn't get as high an angle as I wanted. Also the fluorescent lights I was under can be seen in the video as a series of thick stripes moving through the image. Next, it's not that easy to draw on fabric in a hoop. The hoop raises the fabric off the table, so it's hard to get a solid push on it with the pencil. To mitigate this, I tried putting the fabric over a bowl. This only helped to a degree, though, because the bowl was smaller than the hoop, which meant I had to move it around. Also, as you can see in the image above, the edge of the bowl got transferred onto the fabric. That's not such a big deal, though.
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