My Illustration

When researching and experimenting will illustrators styles and medias I really liked Yoshikazu Yamagata quick but effective style and I felt it really worked with my garment as its out of the ordinary. I also found I liked his use of pencil and dashes of colour.

I knew I wanted my illustration of my garment to be big and have different aspects about it as I like using collage in my work as it conveys reality. I wasn't sure where to start with drawing my garment as I didn't want to have it pictured straight on, as thats simple and wouldn't give a strong effect so I started off taking pictures of my garment from different angles mainly from high up...

I felt this angle worked best as it shows the main features and the structure.

With my idea of inserting collage into my work I decided I would take some pictures of brick walls and use them as I looked at the construction on building and the housing that the lower victorian class used to live in and the texture of the bricks in my concept.

I also wanted to convey the drape in the back of my garment as I feel that its a key feautre to my garment so I took this image from when I was doing some experimental draping on the stand... 

Here I have experimented with all my different aspects to my design, I also used my own method to get the shape of my figure, I did this by shutting my eyes and feeling my head (weird I know but it works and I think it works will with my design and style!). To get the splash of colour I used the same method but going around it with a red pencil crayon. This illustration is only my practice and my finished one will be complete soon :)

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Another two images from my shoot today, this was a skirt and top I made and I have played about using repetition which is conveyed in the fabric and and I have also stuck with the monochrome colour scheme in the photos as well as in the styling... 

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Heres some two of my favourite images from today, I have edited them using Photoshop just to make the lighting a little more darker as its more suitable for my target magazine..

x3 Photo shoots

Today a number of photo shoos took place!

Heres  a few picture from through out the day and some of the styling..

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STYLE

Remember that picture??? Yes its my Giles Deacon dress shoot. My college have selected a styling image from each year in the  Fashion department (so one from 1st year, one from 2nd and one from degree) and they choose MINE! Its basically postcard size and its got the images on the front and some information about the college and the Fashion courses at Mid-Chesire College.

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Hunger magazine

Tomorrow I have a couple of photo shoots taking place which I am really looking forward too. I am shooting my monochrome outfit and my denim shirt dress. Here is some inspiration I have taken from the latest Hunger Magazine for my denim shirt dress shoot...

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TOILE DAIRY

My final garment is very nearly complete and heres a little look at some of the features!!

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A little bit side tracked...

Inspiration

You might of seen the first image before as I posted it a couple of weeks ago but it basically gave me inspiration for an outfit because of its structure and angles of the shapes, I also found this image taken from menswear fashion featured in Bullett Magazine inspiring because of the shapes of the garments and structure it holds. The fabric I also posted about a few weeks ago (post here) from a photo shoot I did was the main culprit of me being side tracked from the FMP dress. 

In my head I knew exactly what I wanted to make and that was a structured box crop top to go with a matching skirt. I wanted it to hold shape but have a box pleat in a finer material at the back of the top. The problem I faced when patterning for this was the fact I didn't want any darts at the bust as I felt it would pull the top into much and create the wrong shape, so I decided to toile my pattern first in a lighter material. The colour scheme just sort of fell into place when I picked the fabrics which just happened to be'monochrome'. Monochrome is a big trend at the moment which helps with the styling aspect of the outfit.

 

Toile

My toile worked fine and it was the shape I was going for, I also think having no darts helped me out as the fabric is very thick and would just created bulk around the bust area.

Final

 

 I choose to have my zip right the way through the skirt as I feel it conveys a more industrial look and links well with the fabric.

 The box pleat in a finer fabric works well as a contrast with the whole outfit and fabric as it gives it a feminine touch!


Overall I am happy with the outcome of this outfit and Im looking forward to shooting it tomorrow!

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Tony Green

A couple of weeks ago we had a quest speaker, Tony Green who was a past student at Mid Cheshire College come and speak to us. Tony went on to study at Central Saint Martins in London after he finished his two years and has worked for the likes of Sonia Rykiel in Paris. He told us about his experience in CSM and shown us some of his work which has really inspired me, he is a very strong illustrator and I love the quickness and detail in his drawings. His designs that he did during his time at CSM I found were very interesting as well as he liked looking at vintage and taking inspiration from garments that are already produced. 

During the time Tony was in college I had the chance to have a 1 to 1 with him and show him some of my work. I took the chance to also show him some bits from my portfolio which was really helpful as he guided me to the road of Egon Schiele's work as he can see it coming across in my work and style of drawing and from researching into him I can see the connection, as I like the quick sketchy unfinished look to my work. I also shown him my FMP sketch book which he really liked and complemented my drawings. Tony jotted down some ideas for me which were based on my sketch book and styling my FMP garment when I get round to it. One really good tip he gave me was to look at Japanese warriors and link them to my design because of the structure and armer they wear. 

From having a chat with Tony and looking at his work made me really inspired and gave me lots of ideas for my portfolio, he also made me gain an insight to the working fashion industry and gave me confidence in my work! 

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TOILE DAIRY

This is what Ive been up to over the last few days ands Ive finally started manufacturing my final garment in my final fabric today!

Cutting out the patterns on the fabric.. 

Back centre yoke

Button stand on pleated crepe- left back

Felt pattern detailing 

Crepe pleats

Im really happy with my progress and I feel like Im on top of my time management plan which is a bonus I guess

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Not the normal

 

On Tuesday the unexpected happened! I was just casually writing up my toile dairy and the next minute I was sat on a photo shoot.. no I hadn't fell asleep! A photography student came up and asked me and my friend Jenny for a helping hand. She briefed us with a very small brief which meant me and Jen could just go as crazy as possible and thats what we did! She wanted a cover for the model as she was taking some beauty shots, at first she just simply wanted a white creased fabric to go over her clothing but when we were hunting in the fabric cupboard I came across this really cool fabric that has black detail on and we all simply fell in love and felt it was the one, we also strangely enough came across what we just thought was a ball of white netting hid away on the top shelf but it was a tutu and when messing around as we do we thought it looked pretty awesome placed around the neck sticking up over the head (please don't ask how we found this out....) but yes that turned out to be a pretty cool shot and over all the photograph seemed pretty happy with our work.

I had fun doing the unexpected and felt that it worked out really well, I have also decide to buy the fabric we found in the cupboard as I have some little ideas floating around my head for a shoot of my own as I just loved the way the fabric photographed sooooo will see hey.

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