monogram outcome

After much head-scratching decisions, and a lot of sketching and research of fonts, colours, shapes and different type of other monograms, i finally got my very own monogram finalised. who knew after so many tries, and many complicated sketches, I ended up with one of the monogram which i did not expect choosing. It was one of those sketches being randomly drawn and not looked at for the second time, and after I finalised it, I actually was really satisfied with the decision Ms Lisa had made for me :) without her noticing this monogram, it would not have cross my mind in choosing it, and I'm glad i ended up with this  specific one 

second stage of monogram making : stencil cutting. 

I was lucky enough to have my monogram being so simple, that way I did not need to go through so much cutting. I didn't mind the cutting, but to have to cut out different sizes and different parts of it countable times, I would have gone mad if it was more than two parts. haha.

This was the stage when I had to choose what colour was suitable for my monogram. 

at the end of it, I came down with black as the main colour and gold being the middle to show the "SJ" initials. 

Stage 3: choosing 6 items to print my monogram on 

the first few objects that i chose were : 

slippers 

iPhone cover 

photo book cover 

bandana 

laptop cover 

but after going through the whole process and discovering a few difficulties in printing my monogram on certain objects ( paint would not stay, not so interesting objects... etc ) I changed a few of my objects to : 

slippers

iPhone cover 

photo book cover 

notebook cover 

laptop cover 

pencilbox 

socks 

and because I got myself fabric paint, I decided to print more of my monograms on fabric based objects, did not want my paint to go to waste. 

as for the slippers, I had it sprayed with spray paint first and then 

some touch up with paint just to clean the sides of the monogram and the surroundings of the slippers. the spray paint splatters a little, it would not be too pleasing to see dirty marks all over my slipper :( what more it was a white slipper. 

 final outcome of the slipper :D 

sadly I could not bring it in on presentation day

because i had it lent to my one of friend, and because of it being white, it got a little dirty :( 

and also because my friend did not return it back. at least I still have a picture of it :) 

As for the other objects which I did in class, 

was my very own personal photo book, my monogram print came out quite pleasing 

I love the combination of the colour, how it pop and also how neat it came out :) 

but as for the bandana, I did not know exactly how to make it more interesting, whether to have my monogram printed all around it ( which i tried) r just had it end with just one big monogram in the middle. and because how i placed all the different sizes of monogram prints on it, I felt that it was kind of too messy. hence I did not bring it into class for presentation. 

I went home and continue on searching for more objects for me to print on.

I found socks, which I've not worn yet, and decided why not? to have my own initials on my own socks? seems pretty cool. and it came out pretty good :) 

yes? :) 

next was a note book that i found in my room, 

I used to have a really bad habit on buying note books ( they are so pretty and some even have really cute covers. how can i not?! haha )  and ended up not using them.. since this notebook that i got, was rather plan on the in front, I decided to spice it up a little to make it look more "mine" hehe.

and also the iPhone cover. I previously wanted to do on my orange iPhone casing, but because of how it is made of rubber, and I tried spray painting it, it did not last. so I went back and found this fabric-like iPhone casing that I haven used in a long time. 

stage 4 : presenting our work :) 

what do you guys think?

yay or nay? :) 

I personally thought it turned out really nice. Especially how I used all kind of different colour to print my monogram on, which shows that my monogram is able to easily blend in most colours ( expect for black of course ) and also most of the objects that i choose are personal objects which I use most of the time, gives more meaning to my monogram hehe 

next post will be exciting! 

BATIK MAKING :D 

xx