29/4/24

Today I struggled getting into uni due to the train strikes, however the night before I had prepared to leave early so I could still get into uni. Luckily I was able to get in alright it took me about an extra hour. I was determined to get in as now in our third week this is when I need to be at the beginning of making. I also knew that today there was going to be an introduction to print and as I had made developments from my prints over the weekend I would really like to include them in my final outcome. The introduction to print included the print tutor explaining how the printing worked and the formats our prints needed to be which is a tiff format, as this format works best when trying to print with the specialist ink and paper. I also learnt about the two different heat presses one for smaller items and then the large roll press that will easily do metres and metres of fabric. I think when I come to print my fabric I will use the roll heat press as I've used both ways of heat transfer before an I find the roll press to be much easier to use.  Furthermore the tutor mentioned that the fabric I can print on to should be a synthetic fabric preferably polyester. This shouldn't be a problem for me as I know that a majority of fabrics are polyester so I will have a variety of choice. However when I buy the fabric I will have to check that it is a fabric that will print well.  After that, which took up majority of the morning I began to look back through my work as I feel that I am at a point in my work that I can start to design successfully too.

 I began focusing on the hunchback shape and noticed that in my print similar shapes were present such as semi circles and tear drop shapes. Combining these shapes with the print I created and reefing back to the hunchback shape I started collaging with these shapes looking at how they could work and how the colours could be used. I painted these shapes onto figures and used acetate that had my print on it. I used the acetate because it gave a new effect to the shapes as its transparent, it also reminded me of the opaque fabrics I had been developing my work with.

This lead me onto developing these lumpy shapes by scrunching and knotting fabric and then placing it on drawn figures, this allowed me to visualise the shapes as well as looking at how the fabric can be manipulated. I carried on developing these shapes whilst referring back to my developments of the shapes and the voyeurism vs fetishism research, because it was emphasising the shapes of the body.

I think today's work has allowed me to visualise the shapes and fabrics I could use towards my final garment. Today was important because I feel that it has been to stepping stone from my research and developments to the design stage of my work because I am beginning to develop my ideas and thinking of them in terms of fashion now. Tomorrow I am planning on developing these ideas even further and hopefully start to design even if it is very rough.