30th January- 6th February
Looking back to my children’s wear and artist inspiration
this week, I started by transferring my mark making drawings onto Photoshop to
make digital brushes as well as drawing more graphical shapes on Illustrator to
combine the two drawing styles for unique prints.
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| Kids Wear Context Research |
As the collection is aimed for Spring/Summer 18, I found colour
palettes and inspiration that I started to experiment with and add to on Adobe
Illustrator and Photoshop.
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| Colour experiments |
I want my print collection to be a versatile one that can
work as a unisex children’s wear collection where colours are able to suit a
particular gender with a change of colour. For my final collection, the prints
will include a wide range of colours in order to fit appropriately for a unisex
children’s market.
After much digital experimentation with combining the mark
making and graphical shapes, patterns started to merge and print collections
were produced. As I have been working with subtle colours throughout this unit,
using these vivid colours for this particular brief was a fun change. Working
entirely digitally is also something I haven’t usually took on in my practice,
however it was an efficient and quick way of working. Working with digital
techniques seems more appropriate for a quirky yet professional children’s wear
range as I was able to capture not only hand drawn naïve elements but also bolder,
dynamic elements. The combination of the two worked really effectively to
develop an exciting collection of gender neutral playful prints.
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| Digital Designs |
After representing my print design through my children’s
wear illustrations, I got more of an idea how certain prints could work on
garment shapes. As the motifs within my prints are unfamiliar shapes and marks,
I could thoroughly play around with the scale of the prints in relation to a
garment. The visualisations also portrayed how the prints worked together as a
collection and how versatile they were individually as each one worked well on
many different garment shapes.
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Throughout this particular brief, I have learnt that
sometimes less is more. Simple marks and shapes, when combined, can produce
intriguing and lively designs. I have also found that I work best when I am
challenging myself to work with different techniques and in this case busy
colour palettes. Colour is something I will be thinking about for Unit X as I
seem to have responded well to energetic colours within prints.
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| Collection |
