Life Drawing Week 11

Life Drawing Week 10



Fashion Technology

The Ice Jacket is a high rate technology garment: the cotton fabric has a thermo-sensitive coating, water and wind resistant. The molecules of the coating's micro-encapsulated pigments modify the passage of light when temperature lowers and morph to darker a colour.

This jacket, is one of Stone Island iconic pieces. Since the early Nineties, they have introduced the concept of light refractivity, borrowed from safety work garments. The Reflective fabric is highly refractive, due to a coating procedure made with thousands of glass micro-spheres.

ITS ALL ABOUT STONE ISLAND

Life Drawing Week 9

Christopher Raeburn - SS11 Dazzle

Interesting approach to fashion using functional military items such as bags, parachutes and sleeping and deconstructing them using the characteristics and the functional properties combined with sportswear silhouettes to create these incredible pieces.

The video shows the evolution of an item to a garment, just such attention to detail.

Week 8 Life Drawing

Week 7 Life Drawing

Painting

Painting project

Out of all the projects, this was the most fun, just so much freedom.

Week 6 Life Drawing

This time it was a man, new challenges, new approaches, I may go more chaotic with my drawings next week.

Dressmaking

In the summer I completed a dressmaking course enabling me to learn the basics to create a garment, the technical elements can push my creativity further, this is what I created, it was a basic pattern I used, this year I want to develop my pattern cutting skills and experiment with silhouette further, this is a start though haha.  

More Life Drawing

Week 4

Week 4

Week 5

Week 5

Paper

Eva Nyiri

Issey Miyake

The journey of the paper project made me look into the relationship of the human form to the garment, for the process of the final piece I began to work with the human form having a basic silhouette which was later evolved into these exaggerated shapes and structures for the silhouette. The work of Eva Nyiri sparked much of the interest with the relationship between the human form and the silhouette, her way of distorting parts of the human form to add masculinity is contrasted to feminine qualities of flowing skirts is something I wanted to take into this garment. The qualities of the paper I used are strong so the emphasis of the fold is highly visible, by producing the fold I was able to add several layers on top of each other distorting the human form, forming some irregular shapes.

Reviewing the garment now I know this could have been pushed further, I had the opportunity to really explore shape, the work of Issey Miyake shows careful consideration to the silhouette having less folds but the scale of the paper is far greater which emphasises the shape greater, this is something I should consider for the future

Paper Introduction

The paper project begins, the first lesson was more of a play about than anything but it was fun and that what the paper project is about.  The introduction involved using photographs of architectural and natural forms as a template to cut and mould from.

It’s amazing what paper can achieve.

There was only one rule and one rule only, I could only cut one lines that exist so the imagery played a key role in this process, I personally felt the imagery supported the resulted shapes really well, the structures of the buildings was able to add depth to the sculpture.

The next exercise involved using a book and just be experimental in the approach of manipulating the book, much of my work tended to have many sharp folds which I later worked back into them adding more detailed folds. I did try other techniques but due to the quality of the paper being fairly weak I tended to destroy many of the pages, I was quite temperamental with the paper.

Life Drawing

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Life Drawing is a wonderful thing, As well as doing this within the art foundation, I have been producing works outside of my college schedule, by doing this I am continuously challenged by new poses, every session I learn more about the human form and conveying this with experimenting different marks. As a student who wants to pursue the route of fashion design, life drawing is an important discipline, fashion is worn by the human body, and the human body is the basis to work from which I can work with or even exaggerate.

These are the first 3 weeks of my life drawing, I wanted to have a diverse range of mark making, the first drawing shows these lively marks while as weeks progress the marks are more controlled allowing more emphasis on tone, even with the choice of medias I have used, each media creating a different quality in the future weeks I will want to continue this. The 2^nd week I drawn the male body, this seem way more difficult than the female body, the whole structure is different, I will be looking forward to be drawing the male figure as there is so much to learn from the male form.  
One thing I defiantly need to improve is the facial features they are so poor, practicing will help though.  

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Future Fabrics

 Calvin Klein

 Prada

Niel Barrett

The Olympics is coming closer and closer people and this is evident with the autumn winter menswear collections, adding a wealth of high performance fabrics and sport silhouettes, Calvin Klein introduced classic silhouettes combined with tech fabrics to create stiff foam filled jackets, and padded pullovers. Prada used a soft liquid lurex in emerald greens and frosty teals in a range of 70’s V-necks and button up polo’s as a result the collection combines tailoring and sportswear, now that’s powerful!!!!

Neil Barrett again plays around with silhouette pumping up the volume by combining knits with high performance fabrics, for me this has many similarities to the fencing outfits, I am expecting to see more of sportswear fabrics introduced into menswear.

The most exciting part is the Calvin Klein collection, I’m intrigued with the masculine approach they have applied, and the cut allows the human form to be this powerful structure something which I associate with sport. This has opened a box full of ideas for me now, for further projects I can consider combining contrasting fabrics, play around with silhouette to emphasise a gender, the possibilities are endless.  

Andy Goldsworthy

This week I have been learning and producing conceptual art, Andy Goldsworthy was one of the conceptual artist that excites me, how he manipulates the land to create an art form, taking the natural materials and having this high level of understanding about the properties of the materials to make these delicate yet powerful sculptures is quite remarkable.

This video clearly shows this process, although the sculpture eventually collapsed, this shows his way of working pushes the process to the limit.

Transformer

CP Company produced a raincoat that turns into an armchair, what a clever way of pushing the boundaries of fashion to form wearable architecture, as a student who wants to pursue a career in fashion design thinking more about a garment in terms of outside the box point of view  is something I need to consider for my concepts for fashion.    

This is genius

Charcoal

Using the classroom as my basis, I was able to develop an understanding about the space with the classroom, and illustrate this with charcoal starting with large quantities of line  building up a composition, aiming to get the drawing in proportion then creating this depth and sense of space within the work by applying layers, varying my tones, rubbing out areas and working back into it.