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.