30/4/14

Today I was in uni early, before anyone else was in so I made the most of this free time that I had and got on with some work. Getting in early allows me to get working quicker which I believe sets the day off to a good start. 

I began by focusing on the hunchback shape, looking back at the stand work I did in previous weeks. I chose four of my favourite stand works that showed how the similar lumpy hunchback shape could be worn on the body in different ways whilst creating a different aesthetic each time. I'm really enjoying this because I love the structural shapes that I'm able to create, I think they highlight and exaggerate the distorted body shapes. My aim with these shapes is too develop them presenting how they could be worn on the body and how they could distort it.

Therefore for each of the stand works I printed out several images all showing the same design but from different angels. With the different angels I then did one very quick design that I felt summed up what the stand design was trying to create, then developing from this I did 20 very quick designs inspired by the shapes. When I started this I began using a pen but I found that this was taking too much time as I was over thinking the designs. Therefore I began to just draw them in pencil as this allowed me to work quicker as they were more rough. I did about 20 different designs for each stand work. I feel that this worked well for me because I got the hang of it and was able to produce a variety of very quick designs that related to my theme. I think it's important that I provide a variety of very rough and quick designs as this allows me to produce as many ideas as I can which I can then develop into something more thoughtful and refined.  

I think I'm am on target with my work possibly a few days behind as following my plan and timetable I was planning to develop and design for all of this week and then make my garment or garments next week then the following week which is the last week of the project I will conduct my photo shoot. I wanted to also create a short film however I feel that I will not have enough time for this and also I am not too sure what my concept would be for it. However if I find that I have enough time and a concept that is fairly straight forward I will definitely produce one. 
Also today I had a group tutorial, I think it went well as my group gave me some ideas that I could focus on. For example when I mentioned I was thinking about using print in my final work I asked them if they liked my prints and if I should use them. Luckily they did like them which had given me some confidence in these ideas. As I wouldn't want to print metres of fabric and then find out that it was an unpopular print, this would've not just wasted money but also a lot of time. Also they suggested turning my knit samples into a print because they had seen how I had digitally placed them onto some designs. I never thought about doing this so it was interesting to understand how others look at my work. 

With this is mind I started playing around with my scanned in knit samples. On Photoshop I adjusted the colours, brightness, saturation even changed the colours. I liked how these prints looked and thought that they would look really interesting, however I felt that they didn't relate to my work very well even though they were taken from my knits, I think that if I were to use them in my final item it wouldn't relate to the main aspects of my work such as the dreams or hunchback elements. Although these prints did lead me onto creating a prints out of my heat press samples. I created a couple from the heat press samples. similar to the knit print I changed the colours and brightness of the images. I also overlaid my first print. I really liked this effect because it combined the two images creating something visually pleasing. Especially the way it looked like it was sparkling and it had many different colours all merging into each other. This reminded me of the videos I took when I played the Cinderella and DMT videos through the translucent fabrics as it blurred and merged the colours together. This is definitely my favourite print because it relates really well to project and is visually really interesting to look at. 

Overall I think today went really well as it feels like a big step in terms of developing my ideas into a final outcome. Also I feel like all of the different elements of my project are all coming together, and I also look forward to incorporating my prints into my designs.