Digital Printing

Printed Village Submission

The printed village brief consisted of creating a series of monochrome prints, which would then be printed onto scarves. I decided to give myself a deadline where I created the prints in under a day. I felt this allowed me to be less careful and reintroduced me to various ways of working within Photoshop. I used different techniques for each print.  Using brush motifs and concentrating on placement and repetition was useful, a technique I haven't used yet in my current project. I looked at other ways, which I could edit elements of photos using various filters. Layering back on top of the image playing with opacity and scale. This mini project has been valuable to my practice, it has allowed me to revisit past print techniques and experiment within Photoshop to create a range of prints, this will feed into my own project when I continue to create another print collection.

Glass development

Chris Wood

Kirsteen Aubrey seemed extremely interested in my project and glasswork, in today's tutorial. She said she was going to contact Prinz Optics to try and get larger samples, which I could work with. After some research I found Chris Wood’s glass work, he works with dichroic glass. The effect his glass has created has similarities to my own structure. The instillation plays with reflection and colour, which I hope my own sampling can include. Speaking to Kirsteen, it seems the concept of creating some thing wearable is possible. I learnt how to cut glass and use the kiln in a workshop. Using this technique with the colour changing glass, I could then thread the pieces together to create a piece that drapes over the body.

Collage Concept Illustrations

I have been working this week on illustrations, which get my concept across. I have enjoyed working with collage, being able to chop and change until you get the right look can let you experiment and edit continuously. Layering the fabrics on top of my prints and imagery gave each illustration a 3D effect. I worked with making the styling look heavily layered, working with thick fabrics for outer layers and layering my prints with sheer materials. After going over my work and looking at it intensely I feel the trend fits the A/W season. In my sampling there has always been the concept of layering and building materials and combining them and so I wanted to show this in my styling too. The first set of illustrations I did where on a smaller A4 scale, it was hard to work on hair as I had just worked on top of a photograph, I decided to work on a bigger scale, I looked at hair inspiration and make up, drawing large scale heads first to get the detail. I secondly drew a body so I could use the fabrics to create suggestions of garments. 

Kaynemaile imagery

Above I have photographed the Kaynemaile on the body, I have tried to be clever with the photography, cropping the images to try and make the material seem as if it covers the whole body, maintaining the notion of suggestion. I liked how the Kaynemail embodies a second skin. The photos worked better when I edited them in black and white; this has led to me thinking about having a monochrome section within my trend book. I want to further develop this imagery, creating a more stylised shoot where I concentrate more on the art direction and styling i.e. hair and makeup.

Digital Illustrations

Nat Prakobsantisuk

I have been experimenting with ways I can get my concept across in a visually inspiring way. After creating the 3D structures I was struggling with ways I could develop these and translating them to my context of fashion. I want the 3D structures to suggest ideas of garments, with these digital illustrations above I have tried to make them abstract. The first illustration has been as a result of previous research of designer Charlotte Void, using a similar technique of cutting away to reveal hidden layers. Looking at Graphic Illustrator Nat Prakobsantisuk, I took aspects such us multiplication, opacity and product placement and incorporated them into my own work.

Kaynemaile Contacts

I have been in contact with Kaynemaile Ltd. A company, which creates a mesh like material for interiors and architecture. I told them of my project and they seemed extremely interested and were happy to send me a few metres of samples. Robyn the director of the company was very keen for me to keep her updated with my progress and send images of how I was using and developing their product within my own practice.