Stand Work Illustrations

      Post my past stand work experimentation, I decided to bring it back to 2-D and layer the structures on top of my illustrations. I really liked the minimal approach to this process as it reminds me of the photoshoot with Alexander McQueen's "Savage Beauty" collections with the floating organzas and silks. I wanted this to be a quick process so that I could begin to work on more illustrations, but considering these are the first official ones with models, I wanted to make the look count and stand out as if they were real garment pieces. I focused a lot on the shape and positioning of my stand work as it reminds me of one of my earlier photoshop processes with the grannies. I plan on constructing more stand work, but for the time being I feel that I need to experiment further and come to a further conclusion to what shapes I want to be making and how I will construct it on a stand. If I could have done anything differently, I suppose I could have played around a bit more in terms of scale and colour, but saying that, I really like the opaque minimalism to these collaged illustrations and I also think that my Final Major Project's (FMP) theme is finally beginning to show through these illustrations, alongside my stand work.

(Sketchbook Illustrations produced by Myself)

       It is fair to say that I do prefer the collaged/layered illustrations as oppose to the models with only one piece on them as I feel it lacks more texture and detail without more. I hope to try construct something similar to this on the stand next time I get the chance, although I want to try it with multiple processes. This can range from photocopies I have made, samples, knit (which hopefully I should be doing soon!), digital prints and much more to widen my variety and keep myself optimistic. Furthermore, I hope to be doing more illustrations using physical samples that I have made to add more depth and perspective to them, plus seeing how my samples may look on a larger scale. So far I feel that my FMP is going well and I am pretty much up to date, although I still feel that I have a lot more to do, hence I need to try be as quick and effective as possible to prevent rushing and low quality workflow.