Weekly reflection

This week was a great week in the graphics room. The first week was very productive, but not as rewarding because I had no finished products. This week I was able to surpass my goal of making 7 different designs into t-shirts, which is what i thought I would be able to make and what I wrote on my proposal, and I already have made 9 different designs into shirts. I am very satisfied with how all of my designs came out. Most of them surprised me at how much better they look on shirts than they did on printer paper. I was able to make multiple of every shirt and I now have a stack of 26 finished t-shirts and one sweatshirt. I also have all the screens burnt for two more designs that should be able to turn into t-shirts on monday. However, at least one of the screens for each design has a problem with it so I am nervous as to how they might affect the shirts.
This week was full of much more labor than the first one. Most of my time the first week was spent sitting in front of a computer making a collection of designs. But this week I was finished designing for the most part (I still needed to make minor changes on some designs, but no completely new ones), and my time was spent, burning, spraying, taping, stretching, coating, recycling, lining up screens, and printing them. most of this work is not as fun as designing, but it is more rewarding. Every step takes you one step closer to the satisfaction of a final product and the capability of wearing your own art.
These steps all have a significant amount of room for error. While most of it went flawlessly, I definitely ran into my fair share of frustration. However, most of these problems had relatively simple solutions and provided me with more learning experience. While it was obnoxious at the time, I am thankful for these issues because now I am aware of those possibilities and the solutions necessary to make the best of them.