Bring one piece, not a whole season
The first run goes best on a job with an end: one collection, or a few pages of one. Start a collection in the app and give it something real to work from.
A brief
Even a rough one. Who it is for, roughly what it costs to make, what it has to sit next to.
A sketch
Paper is fine. Photograph it and bring it in.
Something you have already made
Old work is read as evidence of how you decide, and it sharpens what it draws next.
Questions
The first time
How long does it take?
Directions come back in an afternoon. Three finished pages, modelled and laid out, are a day's work rather than a fortnight's.
What does it cost to try?
Three finished pages run about A$8.50. A single question costs cents, and every answer carries its own price before you spend again.
Do I need DuoHand Bench for the first run?
Not to talk, sketch or argue. You need it the moment the work has to happen in Rhino or Illustrator on your own machine.
More in this chapter
- Signing inEmail links, Google, and staying signed in.
- Where everything isThe sidebar, the chat box and Settings, named the way the app names them.
- How a run worksBrief, directions, the one you keep, files in your folders — the shape of every job.
- Changing your mind, and stoppingWords typed while it works steer it; an empty box and the same button stop it.
- What it costs, roughlyThe shape of the bill before you spend anything: cents a question, three finished pages for A$8.50, nothing for a run that fails.