Sketchbook pages

These are some sketchbook pages from one of my A4 sketchbooks. The brief said I could only use the colours blue and orange and I had to apply a cube to the body. The pages show some of the ideas I had and experiments I did. My favorite idea which the bottom two images are showing is applying a cube to the boy and then removing the frame work and seeing how the fabric would fall. Although it would not look like a cube anymore the actually shape of the fabric is still a cube. 

Sketch book pages

This project was based on the word "absence". The images show pages from my A4 sketchbook. I based my design on the absence of a figure within a garment. I began by exploring the different shapes created when the shape of a hanger were changed instead of the presence of a figure in a garments. I studied the shapes created when a figure was absent and tried to create garments based on the shapes the clothes made without a figure within them. So the final designs were dresses based on the absence of a figure within garment, but the dresses themselves did have a figure within them. 

Fashion Illustration

This is a A1 sheet showing a variety of ideas I had for a body extension project I was doing. The brief was to expand the hands and fingers, but only using tape and split pins.

Life Drawing

This was from a life drawing project I did. I only allowed my self two minutes for each pose the model did and I found this made the drawings I was doing very expressive. The model was wearing a different outfit each time, made from peoples old clothes they had brought in.

Facsimile drawing

This was a drawing project in which I made a wire facsimile of a whisk. I then used a lamp to create shadows of the facsimile from which I could so really interesting drawings of the shadows. Depending on distance the light was shone and from which angle would determine how much the shadow of the facsimile would be distorted.  

Screen Printing

This is one of my A5 sized screen prints on fabric. I made this print when I was at a workshop learning how to expose screens ready for screen printing and this was the product of my work.

Styling

These images are from a styling project that was based on stripes.I got given a word which was "stripped" and was told to collect objects that were stripped. At this point in time I did not know what I was going to be asked to do with the objects. I was told I had to make a collection of photographs that made the mundane everyday objects I had collected look as interesting as possible. The top three photographs all include striped wrapping paper which I then photographed in lots of different ways and Photoshoped the pictures to distort and alter the photographs. The fourth picture is stripped drinking straws. I altered the focus on the camera so the background was out of focus and emphasis was put on a singular straw. The Bottom Picture includes a stripped cigarette box and then using Photoshop I overlaid other pictures of striped fabrics I had taken to create a abstract border for the photograph.

Styling

Here I was aiming to create two photographs that were very similar in the sense that they were both portraits and included the same string, but very different in terms of what they conveyed . This was a styling project and in these photographs I was styling the string that can be seen in both photographs.