Knit Collage/Sample Illustrations

(Collaged sketchbook illustrations produced by Myself)

     Being a designer for my Final Major Project (FMP), it is crucial to try produce as many designs as possible now to elaborate more with my ideas and inspirations to come to a final concept for a capsule collection, then eventually a garment(s). I am really happy with how the illustrations above turned out; I did this by using the photographs I took of my knit samples and used them to collage on top of my hand drawn illustrations. In addition to this, I am focusing a lot on shape and structure and I can see how my earlier work and research has pushed me to this stage in time and I am happy I have kept up to date with what I have planned. Honestly, drawing the surface texture on the 2-D illustrations would have been better from my behalf, but due to a limited amount of time, it was easier to do it this way. I am still planning to make my accessory piece shortly after this process, but I want to make sure I go at one step at a time and not rush anything too much before it is too late. Looking at these designs they remind me of somewhat what Alexander McQueen looks at for structure or perhaps Comme Des Garcons with the avant-garde styling to the shape and positioning. If I could have done anything differently with these illustrations, I would have perhaps constructed more but also edited the photos I had taken, blown them up or maybe change the colouring, although I do want it all to merge together to look more like a capsule collection.

(Knit samples produced by Myself)

    These illustrations above were much easier to construct as they only consist of me placing one of my knit samples on top of my drawn illustrations. Nonetheless, I think this worked well because it added real texture to the illustration and enables people who look at my book to touch and feel the textures and get a more realistic perspective of my theme, "Living with Dementia". Furthermore, the knitting process of creating these small samples were very easy and this was a quick method to speed up my design process, although I don't want to use this process again using the same fabrication (in this case, knit), but perhaps digital prints, hand embroidery and much more. If I could have done anything different with these illustrations, it would have been to use different process samples to add even more texture and shape, but I feel very restricted time wise and the last thing I would want to do is fall behind schedule on my brief. Overall, it is clear that there is much more design ideas needed, but by using this process it has inspired me to focus more on the knit samples details and see how I could position/scale them on both a design and illustration in the near future.