Research Workshop and Muse Development 18th March

|MUSE DEVELOPMENT|

In this lesson we worked on drawing the muse better and draw more garments, we took pictures from trainspotting, and the actor Ewan McGreggor.

There was only me and another group member and we did research on our muse and got some images of him to draw from and develop.

We got some images clearly of his face and some of his side profile, and found some in really nice lighting when the scene was in a night club.

Drawing Workshop 14th March

Today we worked in groups, we made a group Mood board and started on some drawings of some of the images we had and garments we brought in.

Some of the idea's given was to look back to the main images and look into possible mohair, leather, vintage wallpaper and distressed sampling.
We didn't have enough garment research so we put down on our list to look into getting some similar clothing to the theme.

- Look into a clearer muse.

- More pictures from trainspotting, look into the garments characters wear. Get better pictures of them.

- Collect garments and take images of them, draw and work with them

Ideas after Presentation on 10th March

When we had our first presentation, we had only just collected sheets and hadn't started on our sketchbooks, so we got feedback on some images that the tutors liked and we kept that in mind for what we had to look for next. 

I quite liked the idea of looking into flats, and some photographers took head on pictures of the windows, and we added them to our pinterest board. 

We also found some 70's wallpaper that we thought could work really well with our theme too, the darkened colours matched with the grunge of the council housing and the colour pallet of our main image mixed in with the kitch side of it.

Feedback from Tom after the first presentation.

|MEETING TOM, FROM JAMES LONG|

After finding a quick theme to show to Tom we gathered images in the spread of 2 sheets to try and fit our idea together, I feel like we rushed it because of the shortage of time but one group member suggested an image from Trainspotting which was of a scene where the council flats was behind the main character with curtains of many colours. Not thinking this image was very important we emphasized the idea of looking into kids toys a couple decades ago, how lego was popular and the red buggies children would have in their gardens. We wasn't quite sure what we would use it for but I think it would be good if we could use the shapes or maybe the texture of the lego into the garments. But everyone just settled on the colours and the nostalgia of middle class life side of it.

Once we showed these images to Tom, he didn't really go for the idea of using toys in the theme, and instead found the image from trainspotting really interesting and he told us to use this as our main image and inspiration to look at and told us to research around the image and to delve into the story around it.

Main Image

First Day of Unit X

JAMES LONG LAUNCH | UNIT X |

After the Unit launch, we was all put into groups and then had a designer called Tom go through his work whilst working for James Long, and showed us the collections and inspitation boards, and how their process of going through a theme worked for them. They showed us samples, and different techniques they used in their collections,
After we was put in groups we all got together and assigned ourselves to different workshops, and was given a task to create a starting theme. Because we was group 1, I feel like we struggled because we had the least amount of time to do researching but we came up with a really interesting idea. After going through james longs reoccuring inspiration which was sportswear and he used a lot of sweaters, jogging bottoms, jeans for example, we thought about looking at the idea of architecture/scaffolding and council flats. We also originally wanted to bring in the lower class/middle class comfort clothes kind of feel and we also looked at 1960's kitchy wallpaper and incorporated that into it too.

We also created a joint pintrest board that documented looks and different techniques that we was all interested in. [Pintrest board here]
Here we all posted images we thought would link in with our theme.