Colour Bleeding

The tutorial next week requires that three designers or companies that relate to my fashion research and designs are selected. In addition, this must relate to who I think my work is similar to and who it may be suitable for in terms of future work. It is important at the end of my project that my work is refined and it must be evident how I am going to display that. It was discussed in my tutorial that I should not solely create work using one method such as the mirroring drawings and that I should aim to expand my drawings by having parts mirrored in other areas as well. This will add some variation to my work. It was also posited that I should begin putting my designs on clothing templates to demonstrate what my designs would look like on garments.I need to consider in detail my drawings and where my designs will fit specifically on a garment. Also, how I can construct my designs into the relevant composition as well as a need to consider this scale and how the patterns are laid out.

The inspiration for my work this week came from a print designer called Monica Muñoz who creates talented designs. Working for  MONIQUILLA. I was interested in her work for the use of disperse colour and elements of that which are displayed in my work. I am interested in the use of colour Monica disperses in her work and how she constructs the dispersed patterns into a proportion design. So, in my work I have started to use colour rather than monochrome. I have done this to experiment with what kind of reference palettes can be created. In the tutorial, we also discussed that I should take my drawings into Photoshop and start layering my work using mainline drawings of architecture on the top of my more expressive disperse paintings. This week, I have really experimented with zooming up to the photograph and painting from the detail of the microscopic point, but enlarging them to make them bold paint drawings.

I gained a number of valid points from the tutorial. Namely, was that I need to look at more print designers in the industry. I think the next stage in my work is to create a reference book of all the different types of designers that inspire me with my work that I can relate to.  My tutor also thinks that I need to develop my ideas and construct something that is a little different and something completely unique from what I have created previously. I am now immersed into a routine of using Photoshop with the aim of creating and making different designs and patterns.

Inspirations and Influences

When I started working on my visual research project, I found that my work related to fashion print. I am also very interested in fashion print design and fashion designers such as Hannah Werning, Kristina Collants and Carlene Edwards However, I wanted a change my work by adding fine art designs  and collaborating that with the fashion print to create ideas that are more alternative. I have looked at print designers that utilise fine art into their work such as Auguste Herbin and Anton Barnard. It strikes me that their work is able to take an object and multiply that with the good use of proportion and 3-D like designs.

I see my work going into women’s fashion in liberties perhaps as a printed scarf or flowing dress and that is something I need to identify with in the future. In my tutorial, it was discussed that my designs should look from a perspective of a worm’s eye view and that should be my specific theme. It was also proposed that I should start looking at worm’s eye view points with everything, whether it is a tree or lamppost or whether my work is more about architecture and landscape.  I personally think it could involve both and that I would like to take the idea of observation and play using different objects and scales of places. From my tutorial, I gathered that I need work on more ideas, drawings and concepts with my work so I can develop that into 8-10 sample prints.

I started experimenting with the concept of architecture and making it into a pattern using a pen and bleeding with ink. I did this to experiment with an idea of urban fashion by taking something that is constructive like a building and manipulating it into pattern design. In the tutorial, it was also said that I should push and motivate myself to incorporate a different range of media by using colour and line photographic imagery to create different colour arches in my work. I think I need to develop this use of shape in my work and experiment with not only the visual idea of buildings, but also colour and not stick to a simple range of monochrome. Instead, I should experiment with a vast range of different vibrant colours and if I feel that is not successful, I can go back to the monochrome. It was also suggested by the tutor that I look at some designs from http://www.peoplewillalwaysneedplates.co.uk/two and relate this to my work.