This was definitely a project I struggled with to get it to a final design that I was happy with. There was a lot of changes made when it came to the materials that I used for the boards as can be shown below in the progress photos. When I first started this project my idea was to put down the basic outlines on the mini chalk boards that I was given and shade in each area with the chalk supplied. I mocked this up in photoshop (which you can see in the first two images) however when I went to actually put this into action the chalk wasn't high quality and so it didn't apply very well. This made the chalk sections look very spaced out and inconsistent, which wasn't the look I was wanting

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The second option I tried was using paint pens instead of chalk to fill in each area and outline the design after putting a base outline on with chalk. This was also harder than I expected to execute into the idea that I had in my head. I went out and bought paint pens but ended up buying ones that were way thicker than what I needed for the project. As a result of this, I found myself going out of the lines often and trying to fix it up just took it further and further away from the clean design that I had planned for. With the paint pens I first tried colouring as I would with a normal marker but this left me with a thin layer of paint that did not produce a solid colour. I changed my technique and  tried to cover each section with dotting the boards with the pen as it came out thicker, however it produced an bumpy layer of paint on the boards and was way too time consuming considering the result wasn't pleasing.

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From what I had learnt previously, I had figured out what had gone wrong and where I needed to change things up so the third attempt and technique ended up being the best and final one. I had done a technique in school to transfer outlines onto canvas or paper where I would cover the back of a piece of paper with a thick layer of dark lead and place it lead side down onto the material I wanted to transfer it onto. Tracing back over the image with lots of pressure pushed the lead into the surface below it and left an imprint of where I had been tracing. I used this on this project but instead of using lead I covered the back of the paper (with the design printed onto it) with the white chalk I had previously used and then transferred the chalk onto the board, creating thin chalk lines inside the lettering and icons that I wouldn't have been able to achieve with the thickness and angle of the normal chalk. I ended up going back out and buying a thinner white paint pen and was able to use this as outlines to bring some contrast to the project and some thicker coloured paint pens from earlier to colour in the hearts on each design (blue and pink). This turned out a lot better than my previous tries and produced a project that myself and the client were very happy with.