Today I spent the first part of the day preparing for standwork. I took apart a suit jacket and a shirt, and I photocopied the knit sample I made the day before and photocopied and enlarged some of the drawing that I'd done in my research stage.
For the rest of the day I experimented with different shapes on the standing using the materials I'd prepared in the morning and some tulle/mesh fabrics I'd bought a couple months of ago. I feel like this was a really successful day and I managed to do about 20 designs on the stand including drawings directly from the stand. I created some really interesting shapes, I think the mix of photocopies and fabric gave the work a unique look and I'm really excited about what I could do with these design starting points. Next I am going to print these photos off and use these to do quick initial drawings and start to pick out motifs that I like.
The next day I focused on drawing designs. I printed off my all of my stand work from the day before and used these photos to design from and for collages. Today was a really productive day because I did several designs and started to find common details in the designs that I particularly like which I can use as motifs to creative cohesion in the collection. Moving on from today I need to start thinking about what fabrics I want to use so I need to plan a day when I can go get fabric samples.
Also today I had a tutorial with my main tutor Andrea. She said although she loved my designs, I need to make it clearer how I'm using my research to inform my designs. So when I go back to designing I am going to make it clear how my research is influencing my designs through collages and notes. I also want to somehow include the lyrics of Queen Latifah and Abra into my work either through typography (painting/ writing directly onto the fabric) or by creating my own print.
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