Digital realisation techniques

Digital realisation – the new project
So the new project has started, it’s one of those projects where there is quite a lot of listening to do, before you can actually go and do something yourself. This is quite annoying because I like to be able to just get stuck in straight away, but as we are using computer software – some of which I haven’t used before I suppose it does help to listen.
The first workshop we had was Illustrator. I have used illustrator before to do flat drawings for the first project of this year – but not done much else with it. I knew the basics which helped and I have now gained a wider range of knowledge and understand what all the tools do. I have a guide for fashion illustrator book, so for some of my final outcomes for this project I am going to try and apply some of those techniques to my work. I think illustrator is defiantly a useful tool to have; it is used so much in fashion promotion and advertising these days that I believe that it is a necessary skill to become successful.
It is quite hard going from being in the fashion studios with a lot of space and being able to suit yourself with timings and stuff like that, going to sitting at a computer in a dark room all day. It makes my eyes hurt a lot of the time, I don’t like looking at things in the dark, I like the light on and I like it to be bright! So this is causing me some difficulty, and there isn’t much that can be done about it, it has to be dark to be able to see the projected screen. Booo. I don’t know if I will be able to cope with this for another 3 weeks!
The second workshop was on Dreamweaver – the web design programme. I always get a little bit anxious when I know nothing about something because I usually get confused and end up in a state and not knowing what I am doing. However I think this software was pretty easy to use. When the morning first started it was literally a hour and a half of explanations and being told the maths behind the design – not fun! And I thought that after that I really wasn’t going to enjoy the rest of the day, but as we started to create our own websites and pages it became a lot more interesting. For one of the outcomes for our final project we have to create our own website about ourselves and our work. I am really excited to do this, I’ve always wanted to know how to and create my own website so now I will have the chance.
I have started on some of the design for the website :
• Colour scheme
• Header
• Banner
• What content I want in it
I am having trouble deciding on what looks best though, I have designed a few different ideas and I am really struggling to choose. I have to think about my audience and what would look good to them not just what I like and what looks good to me.