Diary of an Art kid: January 2012

Friday

inspuuration

Work from designers I follow alot that have found their way into my contextual notebook

Alexander Mc Queen s/s 09

Gareth Pugh a/w 10

Richard Nicoll Fall 09

Fashion Elective: Day Four and five

Thursday was back on the mannequins trying to create more shapes that

could enhance our opportunities for better looks on the figure.

Again we have to do the same thing and try and exhaust our shapes thinking of every possible place to creatively put an shape.

This is what i'm currently working on and will update once I have a substantial amount done.

Friday consisted of fashion illustration. Epic.

We used numerous different mediums to create quick sketches.

''less is more''

I am planning on doing more as lisa hasn't done life drawing in a long time and her sketches were a little less illustration and more along the lines of fashion devastation.

BUT none the less I managed to do a few that were not all that bad and will upload them when

I stop forgetting to take photos of work. ( Genius)

1 more fashion week left. sad face.

Fashion Elective: Day three

On day 3 we were left on our own with our new fashion enhanced imaginations and had to complete a number of tasks.

1. Print off the pictures we took.

2. Stick them in take out shapes.

3. Blow them up take out shapes and collage.

4. Play around with he shapes on the croquis

5. Exhaust our shapes.

Fashion Elective: Day Two - Shapes,shapes,shapes,shapes

a VERY important word in fashion.

Shape.

And I didn't realise how important until this week.

After all our drawing we started to pull out shapes from the drawings.

(for example)

In our project brief we were asked to pick two shapes to work with.

I chose these.

NOW the fun starts.

Sheets and sheets of brown paper were used cutting out shape after shape after shape in different scales.

We placed these shapes on the mannequins ( Ken and Linds)

I wont show you them all because there was LOADS!

The main point of this was to see how flat shapes come alive on the body and how manipulating one shape can create lots of new ones.

Fashion is 360.

Fashion Elective: Day one

So before day one even started all of the potential fashion students had to get straight down to hardcore research and analytical drawings.

We were given a choice of words to pick from a list.

I decided to chose spire strength and structural and did a mind map.

After my mind map I decided to focus on the la Aagrada Familia by Gaudi in barcelona.

I loved how the cathedral was structurally created yet still had very fine details.

Finding some interesting images I did analytical drawings.

(I wish I knew why these photos wont turn the right way around I didn't even take them vertically, anyway lets not panic, just...tilt your head)

Longest and best week of my life. Started fashion as my first elective on Monday and I already know that I want to do it for the rest of my life. I even like the fact I have had little sleep and a constant flow of work to keep on top of.

I wasn't really sure what to expect in the week but was pleasantly surprised and am kinda gutted I only have one week left. Sad face.

ANYWHO, I will recap my week in the next few posts.

L xo