Final Major Project continued...

I am now part way through my FMP, currently doing my drawing sheets. I aim to make my drawing sheets eye catching so that they stand out, I want them bright and vibrant with some with textured backgrounds to reflect my theme. I have been drawing from real fruit and veg and flowers, as well as my own photographs.


My Bay



Textures



Fashion Research



Above is some of the research I have up in my bay that I look at for inspiration while drawing and will be looking at for when I start developing.

Before I started my drawing sheets I created a Mood Board by picking out certain images that reflected my theme. I also chose specific fashion research that inspired me and created a Fashion board.



Mood Board



Fashion Board

To create some of my backgrounds for my drawing sheets I mixed up vibrant colours using procion and acid dyes and poured, splattered and rolled the colours on the pages.


Mixed up dyes



One of my bright backgrounds













Here are some of the drawings I have created so far...

I went a little crazy with printing the grapefruit,
Lovely textures though!

Close ups of a couple
of flowers

Mixtures of fruit
and veg



More close ups &
mixed media busy
sheet -->

 

unfinished sheet above
& close up of abstract
<-- flower painting

Feel free to leave comments of what you think of my project so far, I will keep adding things as I do them to show my design process.

Final Major Project

Final Major project has come round so fast!

This week I have been busy researching trends and getting myself ready to start on Monday!

For this assignment I am going to be designing for Spring/Summer 2013 so I have been looking on WGSN, Vogue and through various trend magazines to see whats about! Unfortunately the new trend mag at university doesn't come until January 2012 which is far too late, but Ive managed to see a preview of some colour pallets.

From just doing quite a dull coloured Autumn/Winter collection its going to be a complete contract. I am going all out with the bright summer colours and can not wait.

Here is some of the things that I have been influenced by while researching...



colour pallete ss 2013



Various images taken from BLOOM Magazine

A few Fashion Influences..

  

Chris Benz s/s 2012

 

Cacharel s/s 2011



Cacharel s/s 2011



Peter Som s/s 2012



Minor Project: 'Natural Pattern'

So now I'm in my final year of University and have just completed my minor project and getting ready to move onto my Final Major!!

For my Minor Project I did a lot of research to see what trends were about. I knew I wanted to design for Autumn/Winter 2012 but couldn't narrow down to just one trend so I looked at a few and made them my own. I called it 'Natural Pattern'

I named it this because I wanted to look at Natural things such as Insects, Sea Creatures, shells etc. I wanted to focus mainly on the pattern each thing. For my Research I visited Flamingo land Zoo, Sea Life Centre and Blue Reef Aquarium.





Mood Board



Fashion Research Board and Colour Board

Once I was happy with my theme and my concept boards I began drawing.

Here are my drawing sheets that I created for this project...

Once I was happy with my drawing sheets I moved onto my development. I started off by photo copying my drawing sheets, I experimented with different scale. I then began creating various layouts using the photo copies and making them into repeats, multi directional designs and placement designs. Instead of using my imagery as single images I wanted to cut out the shapes and patterns from them to create more patterned designs rather than have a single image repeated.

Below are two of the designs that I chose to take through into print...



Final layouts and Koda Trace



Final layouts and Koda trace

I created a development book to put all my samples in so that I could see what worked and what didn't work. This helped me see how I wanted my final designs to be.

Pages from Development book...



Once I had experimented with colours different fabrics I had a good idea of how my finals samples were going to look.

As well as doing screen prints I wanted to do digital print.

Here is my final collection...

 Here is my product board it shows how I would visualise catwalk models wearing my prints..