For this project, we were assigned to design our own illustrations using Adobe Illustrator, and complete a final physical object. We were given the choice to pick machines to produce different objects, and I chose to create my own hoodie design. The title of my final design is Iris, and the flower Iris carries different meanings in the Japanese flower language. Iris is referred to as the flower of passion, patience, and also the flower of ‘conveying’. These meanings highlighted my experience as a freestyle student and an animation student, especially in terms of growth as an artist. In my design, I wanted to convey my process as an artist to be patient with myself and sometimes let myself drift in order to really define my interest and my style of art. Also, I tried to depict my drifting emotion and direction as an artist through swirling lines and simple shapes that almost seems like streams of water, since my art tends to concentrate on ocean and fish.
From this project, I held most value on the new experiences and struggles using Adobe Illustrator. Since I am not very experienced in creating art designs using Illustrator, it was hard for me to figure out how to utilize the tools to make my art look better. I struggled the most on drawing clean lines, for it was completely different from how Photoshop’s pen tool worked. Furthermore, what affected me the most in this project was when I got to see and observe my final physical product. I do not get the chance to create my own shirt designs often, so it was a great opportunity for me to learn how to put things together and really think about how the final product will turn out to be, and when I thought about my final design to be on a hoodie, it was an eccentric and a new experience that I would like to work on again in the future.
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