Vinyl Personal Project
For my vinyl project, I already had an idea of what I wanted to do. I wanted to stick a picture of a barn or farm to the side of my hardhat. So one of my first steps to do was to search on the internet to find some sort of "Farm" black and white picture. Most of the pictures that showed up would have worked but then I decided to go with a cow. I then grabbed my designer notebook and started to sketch what I wanted to do. I then found out that I wanted the cow to stand on a green sheet of vinyl so that it could simulate grass. I didn't just want to put a picture of a cow on the hard hat so I added the saying, "For The Crop". This is a saying my friends and I started to say to respect the dairy farm. Its pretty cool. I then ended up with going with an all green background and a black and white cow with the black letters across the top saying, "For The Crop". I later found out that putting the vinyl did not want to stick on the hard hat very well so I just decided to stick it to my designer notebook.
Designer Notebook Sketches
Illustrator Sketch
The Cut Out Vinyl
Applying to Designer Notebook
Final Product!
What I learned
This project was a nice refresher on how to use the Vinyl cutter. This project made me think more on how to use the machine because when I first used it I wasn't so familiar with it. After I used it to cut out the green background, I felt like I was a pro at using the Vinyl cutter. Another thing that I learned how to do was to take an created image and pretty much separate it to be able to add what ever color vinyl you want to it. For example I separated the cow and the "grass". For the cow I just took the out line of it so I could stick a blank white cow on the green part. I then had to stick the black pieces on perfectly so that the design actually looked like a cow. This project taught me to be more precise on where I want things to be placed and to take my time. I think I screwed this project up enough to know that I need to take more time on it.