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.