Stand Work Drawings & Illustration Response

(Drawings and photocopying produced by Myself)

     To exhaust my previous process, I decided to take my stand work drawings to the photocopier and played around with the colourings, scale and positioning of the drawings I produced earlier. This process worked well as it enabled myself to play around with colour, which I haven't done much within this project as I wanted to still keep it minimal and simplistic, but with minor detailing throughout. Within this process, it reminded me of the prints I produced earlier in the project using the photography of my hands in the murky water, although this has much more refine detail to it. I don't plan on using this as a print, but if there was more time then it would have been great to have taken this further as an experiment to see what I could get out of it. Nonetheless, as I said previously, colour isn't really going to happen for me within this project which is a shame, although I feel that it adds more depth and innocence to my theme considering it is 'Living with Dementia'. Unfortunately, because I did the drawings on tracing paper, the under layer didn't show through as well, unlike the top layer I produced. Despite this, in comparison to my past experimentations this is a very flat process and I want to try get out of my sketchbook as much as possible, hence this process won't be continued, but I am glad to have trailed it out. 

(Sketchbook Illustrations produced by Myself)

     Above are collaged illustrations I produced in response to the photocopied drawings I just produced. These worked well in my opinion as they reflected both shape and structure. Not only this, but I feel that it being in plain black and white added more depth and it is easier to see the different tones and shades within the collage. By doing this process, it will enabled myself to really focus on the small segments and transfer them into more detailed and fresh illustrations. This will enable me to pick out specific shapes, lines and much more to have very strong concept designs towards the end of this project. Considering these are drawings from my stand work, I feel that they the illustrations are becoming much more textured and shaped, which is what I want at this point of time in the project. It is key to point out that because I am not using much colour, detail is needed to uphold these illustrations to try make them not look too basic or vague. Moreover, the drawings have a lot of the holes from my knit samples and think that these relate to my theme very strongly as I want to show that the holes could be an indication of memory loss or something that is missing from the human form/mind. 

    From my previous research, I feel that this is still on the same sort of level and I need to find away to push past this stage. To push this further, Photoshopping seems the best way to go in terms of further development, but perhaps by using it on an actual physical female model from a catwalk runway to make it seem even more realistic. Doing that process, I will get a much better idea of what I want for shape and placement, which can then be taken back into quick designs and illustrations to make my work as strong and developed as possible. From looking at previous illustrations and developments, I am much more pleased with how I have been working now in comparison to 1/2 weeks ago and this is due to my designs using much more fabrication and response to my research I did at the start of the project. I am looking forward to using all these process combined, which I have a strong feeling will involve knit, mesh and potentially prints that I have already produced.