Sketa Oz Designs taking shape

Photo: Sketa Oz Images

Photo: Sketa Oz Images

Designing takes just forever!  The actual drawing up of designs - that is the easy part.  Inking, laying out the work in a fashion that will service a utilitarian product - that is a whole different ballgame.  I love the process, but it is time-consuming and before one knows it, a year maybe more has passed, just because it is hard not to want to get it just right.  Well, maybe that is the perfectionist trait in me talking.

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So this is where my designing takes place.  On a boring, old piece of any old scrap of paper.  Anything I can grab, just to get my ideas down, before they morph into something else.

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There are days, like when I plan a particular colour within the design and it goes haywire!  In this case, I planned to use only the colours within my logo, so that the entire design range has good continuity. Then, the printer decides to have a spack-attack and gives me an entirely different colour.  This doesn't happen too often - thank goodness, but when it does, one is often placed in a predicament because the mistake - looks just great!

Then, I have to decide whether it is worth changing my entire range for the umpteen, hundredth time. 

​To the right of this planned emerald colour palette, my printer spat out this beautiful blue, inclusive of blue line art and not black and white.  

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I usually spend hours and lots of sleepless nights, exacting the ink process, within my design template.  There are times, when I have to change the template entirely, just to fit the design and that will mean going back to the InDesign layout and tweaking the measurements for hours on end.

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Can you see what I mean?  It is really different.  I mean really different - but nice!

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This all happened because I printed the piece on poster format - I had to test a new paper that was not big enough to take the entire design.  So, me being a diligent person as I am, I printed out the entire design in six parts, then stuck the design together, so I had an idea of what the design might look like.  My home printer will only output to A3 size and anything bigger than that requires me to be a bit ingenious, in finding a resolution. 

So, long story short - I love the blue!  And I am left wondering whether or not I should include this colour in the design collection, also.  What say you?