3 Word Project (Part 2)

Final Week

On this project I didn't know what shape to use as I thought it would be too obvious to use a bunny head shape. But I thought about it and then realised that its shape that I want to use to represent the idea of fantasy and how children rely on rabbits or animals to be there friends, they find comfort from them, thats why sometimes there imaginary friends are a type of animal. After I did some stand work and developed the ideas you can notice that the rabbit head shape is not noticed as strongly than before it was manipulated.

For the development designs I thought I would be more experimental with colour and how I presented the designs and they turned out much better than the previous project. I have began to become more free with my designs and not so precise but keep it presentable to my standard. I enjoyed developing design ideas through photoshop as they are quick, easy and efficient and allow me to go forward on finalising my final collection. It allows the ability to play with size and contrast the different layers of images that I wanted to be in my designs; in this case the stand work shapes and the coloured shapes that I retracted from primary research at the Tate museum to represent utility. I enjoy doing these mini illustrations/collages digitally as they make my work more interesting.

I continued developing my designs but with sketches and using colour to represent the art and the stand work as it helps me understand what the final collection will look like. If I had more time, I would of created some samples experimenting with the fabrics or if its going to be printed, etc. From the final designs I selected some designs that were my most preferred and placed them into my final line up of the project.

Overall I think this is ones of my strongest projects out of the pathway stage and I believeI have become better with work development and stronger with presentation in my sketchbook for each project.

3 Word Project (PART 1)

I was a bit hesitant about this project as I wanted to make the words connect further down the line in the project but then remembered that I should not think about my end result and just think about the words that I should choose. So I researched the words further and found that I really like 'Alice in Wonderland', 'The corner shop' and 'utility'. These words contradict each other, which make the project interesting when researching furthermore into it but makes it more difficult as they do not link. Created a mind map to write down all my thoughts but placed notes with hypocritical questions to help with research and what the next step would be. From that I researched images, films and information that link to the idea I want to carry on forward. Visited galleries and museums for primary research and they were not as useful for my research but I found some shapes the helped represent the utility part of my project but anything relating to fantasy or rabbits there was not so much of apart from the internet. I found that it was not as useful as only I found one exhibition that was showing about Alice in Wonderland but it was more about the illustrations but looking more in depth it shows that its not a very childlike story as there is drugs inscribed but make it child friendly in some way.

To help my idea develop on the psychological side of fantasy I created collages represent the fun side of alice and stories told but the crazy and mad side by the portion of the shapes. Which made me evaluate what the most common animal is comfort to children and that was a rabbit, so I went further on with the research and looked into rabbits that were a key participation in; films, stories, etc.

I continued researching for any more ideas on how I could move on forward.

Politics Project

Well it always starts out really exciting and I have motivation and passion towards every new project that I start. So I had done a little research of topics that are going on to put forward in the group activity. I put out the idea about Priests and the misconduct under the Catholic church, others gave ideas but I felt strongly about this topic as I had recently watched the film called 'Spotlight' and it was based on this idea. It horrified me how people you trust would violate their right and there trust with there relationship between the people who visit the church and use it for there own pleasure. The age mortifies me the most, the youngest age was a 3 years old and that was disgusting just to think of.

I had my research, mind maps and mood boards but I was very confused on how to progress further as I didn't want to use a shape straight away, so I struggled for a while until I had a tutorial helping me move on forward. So I created some collages playing with the shapes and images that I gathered from magazines which established into my own clothing for woman but felt very manly as its normally worn by men.

Stand work with three different shapes that I gathered from the collages and with the shapes I gathered from the stands I created some experimental collages on Photoshop that allowed me to to come up with designs quickly. I prefer this technique as its quick and creates designs in a different medium. From the stand work I sketched rough designs that followed through as developing further on and within the process I created some photoshop collages as it is become one of my favourite techniques to use in projects. It wastes less time which allows me to become more time efficient when sketching designs.

I selected garments and shapes that I really liked and worked as part of the collection and manipulated them to style these long robes that priests wear. I then came up with the idea that the colour and how they would work on catwalk is that tells a story as the clothing becomes infected with black until its eventually black tone, to represent the priests and what they do to children and that they leave them behind with.