Quick Designs

(Sketchbook designs produced by Myself)

    From producing the knit headpiece accessory, I felt that it was necessary to carry out more quick designs to move on from accessories and focus more upon the shape and structure of garment(s). I still have so many ideas to carry out prior to making my final piece(s), although I don't want to rush into anything. These quick designs show my thought process rather well as it represents all of the sample processes and experiments I have carried out since the beginning of this project. The juxtaposition between delicate prints and burnt/decayed texture expresses the nature to my theme of having positive and negative aspects to "Living with Dementia", the combination of both print and decay could look disastrously beautiful, so it would be good to experiment with both either with collage or illustrations. My designs have not got quite up to the standards I want them to be produced, although I plan on producing many more to improve my drawing skills and also get more of an idea as to what I want to make for the end of my Final Major Project (FMP). 

   It is clear that I need to do more stand work to get more of an idea of scale and shape, which will really help me develop my quick sketches further. In addition to this, I really like how my designs are beginning to look as I want it to have quite a minimal perspective, but at the same time, I want it to have descaled, miniature details to represent my theme by expressing a message to show that people with dementia still look the same from the outside, but from the inside, there are small malfunctions within them that eventually puts them to rest and I want to show this through a garment. 

    When it comes to designing my concept illustrations, I want to be focusing more on the top half of the garment, referring back to my knitwear samples which I think will be more effective to add more perspective. Furthermore, I feel that the top half shapes will be much more fun and interesting as I do not want them to be in the usual or expected form. I want to try go for see through/baggy fabrications as it represents my FMP well, such as the space between the body and the wholes on the knits to show dislocation of memories and emotions. Illustrations are crucial to this stage now for myself and I need to get these produced rather sooner than later, but I will use these quick sketches and previous samples to inspire me for illustration designs. 

(Sketchbook designs and knit sample produced by Myself)

    When it comes to designing my illustrations, I plan on adding slight touches of colour, although I still want it to extremely minimal and blank to represent the theme; the hints of colour will represent the positive moments and emotions of those with dementia for when they regain their memories or feel happy when they're doing activities such as painting, reading, music and much more. In order to develop further designs, once I have the illustrations I will begin to take aspects from the designs out of my book and transfer them onto a stand using either paper or calico to get a 3-D perspective of what I will be wanting to create and get a greater understanding of the silhouettes and how they will look on a model.