Essie Ashton's Senior Project

This week in our project I spent drawing designs cutting them and screen printing. The process is pretty long and when cutting our the designs you have to go very slow becuase if you make a mistake many of them you cant fix. Each one took about 6-7 hours to draw and cut out. I realized thet i have to be more reasonable abour how many unique peices i can produce because unless im printing one design a mulitple shirts, I cant use it again. in terms of my goals, I have already seen my screen printing skills improving in terms of my accuracy, and I think we are on track to have our clothing selling by early next week, additionally we have already been contacted sbout a market we can potentailly sell some of our pieces at. Sometihing funny that happened this week was that I was drawing one of my designs while sitting with my bunny, and i left to get something and came back to see her chewing the paper. This coming week my main focus will be producing and uploding as many pieces as possible....

For my Capstone Project I am working on screen printing and painting clothes as well as jewelery making. I am working in a cohort with Divine and Thea B, and we named our brand DET clothing. I chose this project, beucase I was in honors portfolio this year and the majority of my work was around apperal. I had wanted to start selling some of my clothes, but didn't have the time to commit which is why this was the perfect time to do so.I thought this would be a great opportunity to learn how to sell products and have a small buisness with low stakes. To pull everything together, we had to pick the name for our brand, create social media platforms, and plan out desisgns etc. This week, I spent doing the things listed above,as well as getting supplies, and clothing peices, and drawing out my screen printing patterns. My goals for this project are to have a fully running shop by the end of the project, sell at atleast one market, and improve my screenprinting skills. This is the Logo ...