Having a Half Way Wobble

Now that I've finished the pattern side and began to tweak, I'm having my wobbles. The "It's all a pile of rubbish" talk in my head. So I've not done anything major today. I've just had a couple of plays with adding black to my colour scheme to see if I like the effect.

The top one has the border over the pattern. The bottom one has it behind. It's not much but I have done my allotted half hour play.

I've a hundred and one tasks awaiting me today, so I shall plough on and come back to this, hopefully afresh. According to the rest of the group in this challenge, having the halfway wobbles is perfectly normal lol.

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Adding, tweaking & Playing

I've been taking the designs and adding to them today, to see the results and whether I think they work or not.

As usual, I will reserve judgement until a day or two has passed. I seem to have the habit of spending hours tinkering with a piece and then dismissing it almost immediately as a pile of the biggest rubbish to ever been designed. So I shall try and learn my lesson and give myself a pause. Usually, when I come back to it fresh, I see what I like about it and realistically whether something isn't properly working and needs further tweaking.

I'm also on a course where there's a select few of us doing exercises and discussions on uncovering style. I flit between distressed and clean, design and art, so it's proving fascinating to see how my own style is unfolding.

Anyway, I've taken the design above and taken away the textures to leave something cleaner, to see if I prefer it.

and then I took away the subtle texturing so it was completely clean

I now need to sit back and look at these three different styles and see if I can come to some decision. All my answers on the course, lead me to the cleaner, unfussy style but I must admit, that I love layers of texture. Again, it's something to sleep on.

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Papers 13, 14, 15 & 16

I've zipped through adding patterns and a light texture to some more background papers today.

Not sure about the star pattern yet but I shall withhold judgement until after I've slept on it.

However, my progress chart seems to show that I've now completed all the pattern papers now. So the next step, after I take a creative breath, is to see if I can add any more interesting layers to the designs. Play around with them and tweak them here and there. Give them some finishing touches where I can.

Not sure what or how yet. But that ca be decided tomorrow

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Paper 12 - Revised

I'm waiting for some glue to dry, so I've been putting extra time into the papers. So here's a revised design for Paper 12...

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Paper 12

Sorry but I couldn't leave today without at least trying to reach the halfway mark, so here's paper 12

Papers 10 & 11

Nearly halfway. Not sure I have enough variety in my designs but then this part is not the finish  I'm hopefully going to have time to add a few more layers and images to some of these. Anyway, I won't rabbit on as I haven't the luxury of time today, so without further ado...

Papers 10 and 11.  Oh yes, and I decided to mute the saturation of the whole palette just a smidgeon which took a bit of time applying to the rest of the stuff I've done. Thank goodness for recorded actions. Made the job a lot easier.

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It's A Bit Confusing but it's Papers 5, 7 & 9

I feel I've done a lot and not done a lot all in one day. Yesterday I took a break. I deemed it my seventh day and our commitment is to plug at our projects for six days out of seven. So I went back to it today and well, I don't seem to have a lot to show for it.

Also, because I've been working on previous designs I wasn't happy with, the numbering has gone a bit haywire today. So that's why today's final haul is for designs 5, 7 & 9.

Part of the reason why the process was slower than usual is that I invested in some new software over the weekend and I've been learning how to navigate it. It's been mostly straight forward but, as usual, it's the finer points which aren't covered in the manual, that take up time.

So that's todays progress. I've also had to pledge my new commitment for the week so I went with creating another 6 designs. I'm therefore nearly halfway now. Mind you, I'm hoping to do more than promised by the Sunday 8pm deadline.

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