Fashion elective week 2

Just completed week 2 of fashion. Loved very moment of it and learnt loads from. I found working with shapes and fabic very natural. this week we had to creates 6 outfits for the final line up. Got trained on sewing machine. I felt I pushed my shapes and fabric as much as I could. It was a rush at the last minute but it was worth it.

Fashion Elective week 1

From brief given I choose kitchen appliance as my theme. I finally settled on a washing machine. I picked 2 shaped from that and created different looks. I have taked the colours of the appliance and created a paint pallette that hopefully conveys the mood. done lots of research on designers and going through issues of vogue magazine. Done drawings of appliances in my own kitchen. not in on friday the 1february because very sore neck unable to even drive. medical cert provided. Over the weekend did more research on designers for my contextual notebook I am very inspired by avant garde designers and also futuristic designer.

Vis Comm 2 weeks elective

The vis comm elective was a very stressful time , very distracted by other issues. The first week completely misunderstood the brief. The second week managed to get a handle on the brief for illustrations. Elective did not go as well I would have hoped for. On hindsight should have asked much more questions so that mistakes do not be made in the future.

Urban enviroment week 9-16

Made further studies using a variety of materials. did large scale drawings as per recommendations. experimented with braille art.Used my vegetable as inspiration to come up with 3 ideas to take my project further, I used the shapes in the vegetable to create my own typography. the shape also inspired  the creation of sex toy and lava lamp paintings.

Urban Enviroment Week 8

Very motivated this week I did drawings in pencil, charcoal,chalk pastel. I had read about a canadian illustrator using woodblock to burn images on. So I decied to try this technique I created to boards. I also did 4 mono prints. They did not come out as good as I hoped. I do not think that print is for me so it would be pointless to continue working in print. Next week I hope to created a mold of my vegatable that I cast. Made notes in my sketchbook and printed out photos.I have made several investigative photos of this vegatable.

Urban Enviroment Week 7

This had my results of my review. Very disappointed with it now I need to focus my attention fully on investigating my the vegetable.I need to improve my drawings and investigative studies using different mediums.

Urban enviroment week 6

This week was reviews with Des and Elaine. Told I should made a series of drawings of my chinese bitter melon. I did experiment with differnt mediums in drawing the chinese bitter melon. The chalks and oil pastels do not work for me. I am better with pen and pencil. After my review I am starting to approach my subject matter in a new light. I have taken more photos and become more analytical.