Presentation of samples 27th April

Presentation

After the workshop we presented our samples what we had done so far. We needed to have more softer fabrics because some of them were too thick.

We also narrowed down some of our favourite ones that we wanted to keep and use for our final line-up.

Final Fabrics

More Photography images

More blue/green images of architectural buildings, to use for print ideas, textures.

Pin-up Crit 25th April

Pin-up of all work so far |Group Work|

Once we pinned up all of our work it made so much sense where everything was going, and our designs came along well with the research we had got, we wrote down a list of things we needed to work on, which was more collage work, more sampling and more use of colour in some of the designs.

When we put up the work, I got good feedback on my illustrations that I had done.

I really felt like collaging during the workshop helped to get out a design really quickly and still have the feeling that its coming together more visually.

Tutorial 20th April

Tutorial

Aims: To work with collage to get the ideas out to progress quicker with prints.
Use more blue tones 
Choose a few designs then work over the top of them to get different designs and make it more interesting.
Choose a single fabric then work into it multiple times.
Get poses to work on and use the same one throughout the group to work with.

Agreed targets
-Work on the silhouette, pose and the model, improve the face and get side views to work onto.
- Do more line-ups of garment ideas. Get all ideas together.

Workshop 18th April

Range Building and Finishings

For this workshop we needed to work on the range and what garments we will and wont have in the final line up. Because we was to do technical drawings, we thought about drawing from those that we had, to create more of a fluid line of different garments all together on a figure.

Once we had decided on what garments we wanted I did front and back flats of the garments one by one using Illustrator and a drawing tablet.

Once I had done the flats we drew from them and created looks by mixing them up. (There was also two of us doing technical drawings so the style differentiates.)

Workshop - Hand Techniques

|HAND TECHNIQUES|

When we all chose a workshop I originally put myself down for 3D Textiles but I swapped workshops with a group member that didn't come in for personal reasons.

We was taught by Lynn about hand stitching and quilting, along with many different techniques used to sew clothing and fabrics.
She showed us some hand made jackets and head-wear that had hand stitches in vertical and horizontal lines down the fabric to hold it in place and to give it strength and padding, but also to add a pattern to the piece.

I really found this interesting as some of the samples she showed us looked lovely and detailed, but when it came to doing a few of my own I didn't know how I could incorporate the theme from our group as we hadn't decided on a solid colour pallet and patterns, the prints that we had as a group were all very tough and I wasn't able to sew into them with my needle, the prints were very bright and the thread wouldn't show up very well.

I did a couple samples with the fabrics I had with me to practice quilting.

Photography of buildings/architecture

PHOTOS TAKEN FOR SKETCHBOOK

After thinking about going for a certain colour to work with I chose yellows and oranges at first so I went out and took some images of buildings that have a repeat pattern in them, because of the relation to the council houses in train-spotting and the colours in the windows.

Monday April 11th

Fashion illustration from sampling |Workshop|

Today after the easter break we did some fashion illustrations from our research. We looked at the different shapes and textures that we had in our work, and the garments that we had looked into too.

We got some basic shapes down to then re-work into, and I photocopied and gave my drawings to the other group members to apply their own shapes designs onto.

When I was drawing my designs I got a simple base from online as I wasn't very good at drawing figures, especially not men. I didn't focus too much on the face and I got the basic short hair and same face shape. I drew a few garments that we had all agreed on in the group which was jumpers, tracksuit bottoms, jeans, shirts, denim jackets and dungarees.