This project was definitely out of my comfort as I've never tried to design a pattern for wrapping paper before, or a pattern in any sense, so was definitely going to be a challenge for me to get it right. My biggest strength for this project was getting the sketch work done. I haven't always been the best at getting sketchbook work done, however for this project I was able to just keep drawing and drawing, I was able to draw sketch after sketch to try and get the Santa character right. I actually really enjoyed this process and will definitely be taking it forward and using it in future projects. Because I was able to do the sketches and I was enjoying doing them I was really motivated to get this project done. I felt like I kept up to date with my work and there wasn't a time when I wasn't doing anything. After the initial sketches for the project I found the digital work quite easy to begin with, and I found myself trying things I hadn't before which was great! I was creating my own background and experimenting with Photoshop. With this project one of my strength was definitely asking people's opinions about what they thought all the way through the project. If someone didn't like something I tried changing it to see if their suggestion worked better. I found myself really listening to peoples advice, as the outcomes for this project would be brought by them. Doing this was very helpful and will be doing this more in the future as well, as I don't think I ask a wide enough range of people to get an overall opinion on things.
I think my weakness in this project was definitely the fact I'd never produced anything like this before, my character designs were professional and neat but I think I could have done better with the pattern designs. I found myself watching tutorials on how to create patterns to try and make them better but I think if I'd had more time I could have worked on them even more. I'm not unhappy with how they turned out at all, I still think they turned out very well, especially as I haven't done it before, I would just have liked more time to work on them.
Overall, I was happy with my final outcomes and I got good feedback from people. Especially one of my wrapping paper designs, a few people said if it was made or if I printed it would they be able to buy it from me which definitely boosted my confidence. If I was to change anything I would love more time just to work on the project as a whole, to be able to create and complete more characters rather than just have some extras as sketches. I'm not sure that wrapping paper/pattern designing is for me though, maybe card design.
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