FMP - Developing Patterns

FMP - Week Six - Day 2

Continuing With The Shift Dress Designs...

Today I continued with my shift dress designs so I did a page with the same designs in nude colours as the fabric base colour, to see how that would have worked out. It does look very pretty when you put the deep blue print on top of the light creme fabric. This would have been ideal however, I didn't want the colours to look comfortable together, I wanted them to work together but to look sharp and cutting, so I then decided to work with a pearl white fabric so the textile print would be pungent and striking. I then created another page on photoshop and began to change the transition of the print as well as the size.

Sketchbook Work - Print Consideration

FMP - Designing For A Print

FMP - Week Six - Day 1

Designing A Garment For A Textiles Print

I decided that I definitely want to use the hand print as a textile design for one of my garments; it makes it more strong and meaningful than if it were just a structure. I tried to work the design into a garment however it didn't have the same impact since you were unable to see all the splats and the ink running into all different directions. So this morning I went out to find out how the sublimation printer works and how i'd go about printing my own design onto my fabric.

As there is not much time left to complete my project I decided to do a dress. I wanted a simple straight, structure-less shift dress and began designing. I was pretty pleased with the outcomes but wasn't sure which dress exactly I should go with, I then drew out flats for the outcomes. 

Own Sketchbook Work - Shift Dress Designs

FMP - Working On The Stand

FMP - Week Five - Day 3

Moving Forward...

Own Stand Work

Today I had a conversation with one of my peers about my work and how well they thought it was going, he had told me that I probably should get a move on with the designing process, so I then spoke to my tutor and she told me to start working on the stand. I began looking trough my work and started picking out some of my responses then took them out to the photocopier and printed them in black and white but altering them in size. I chose to do them black and white because, the previous colour scheme seemed too garish and I do not feel as though those colours now relate to the current concept, when it comes to religion and culture in general, it does became a 'black and white' area.

After I had photocopied the pieces I starting playing with them on the stand and managed to develop a good variety work. I then started pining the pieces together to become more 3D which created even more interesting structural shapes.

This whole process worked really well for me as I really enjoy working on the stand and it started to open my eyes to potential design work, I am also quite happy with the large variety of outcomes because it helps me realise what works and what doesn't. I want to now start to use the stand work to start developing some designs.

FMP - Reining The Ideas Back In

FMP - Week Five - Day 2

Figuring It Out

Back To The Drawing Board

So today has been in absolute shambles, I have looked through all my work and see a clear connection between the voice and the body but I want to still make the work personal, I haven't been able to keep to my timetable as I am very behind with my designs. I need to pick up the pace and only use relevant work in my project. So I began to go through my research folder once again and noticed that the interview with maria hasn't been used in a useful way; that was when I had realised that it would be a good idea to use the hands to respond to the earlier recording track I had created. Ink hand drawing in response to the track. However once I had completed this I was very disappointed  at the outcome. The lines were thick and and the hand prints were not visible; so I decided to respond to the recording once it had ended with only one movement.

This worked amazingly! It feels like such a powerful piece, I hit the paper straight on with clenched fists which elaborates the anger and frustration. I decided to then focus on young Muslim girls; being one myself, I understand that stress and commitment required to cope in a Muslim household and how we are expected to have a thick skin. I used this frustration into the impacted ink splat; as during the time I was making it, my brother sat behind me tormenting and teasing, so the piece has multiple meanings. I wanted to keep making these but this particular one is perfect and you cannot get perfection twice.

Drawing Response

FMP - Sound Movement

FMP - Week Five - Day 1

The Movement of Sound

I started today by making a splodge on a sheet of paper then halving it so the colour spreads symmetrically to the other side. I used the same colours as in my response to the recording track I made. I quite like the pattern it made and how the colours dispersed ito eacother because once again like my croatia knit it looks like something 'bodily', almost like blood. I then photocopied this and started playing with the pattern on the stand with my other samples. I think this worked particularly well and could look really good if I potentially laser cut fabric pieces in the same way then strategically place them together. 

Tassal Sample

Over the weekend I had plenty of time to think long and hard about what my next approach could be, so I then began reading back into my research and noticed the political section, so I began to brainstorm ideas of actual sound that happens with movement; like the movement that follows after a strong voice in politics. For example tassels, fringing, all work with excessive movement. From this point I started making tassel samples. and experimenting with them on the stand. I made one particular tassel sample that took plenty of time to create, I used beads around the ends of the wool to create sound like a wind chime. This worked particularly well and I was really happy with the concept behind it, however I'm not too sure it relates the voice, but more sound and forms of non verbal communication.

FMP - Moodboard

FMP - Week Four - Day 3

Creating The Perfect Moodboard

Voice Moodboard

Today I set up my own space in the studio; I took important sections of my research, Photocopied them large and the stuck them up in my space so that whenever I look up, I am brought back to staying within the boarder lines of my project. Today whilst looking into my research again I started thinking about different images that could represent my thought process so far, and then finally I was able to come up with my moodboard for voice. Yay!
Im not very happy with my progress today as I had hoped to do much more, but considering my home situation, I had to finish here for today.

FMP - Back into Research

FMP - Week 4 - Day 2

Sampling

Filling in the Gaps

Today I went back to my tutor for a quick review, she had thought the same about the illustration as I had, and told me that I needed to begin thinking of the structure if that was typically what I wanted to make. I decided that I did actually just want to have shapes sticking out of a garment. I do like surface decoration but I wanted to use my concept to create a shape of its own. Looking around today, I've started to feel stressed; as my peers had become sampling and have their own walls of work. So I decided to take my tutors advice and to start thinking about structure, and what better way to play with structure than to play with metal wire? I started thinking about the concept and the only other sample I had made was a hand croatiaed knit piece made with brown wool. I chose croatia because the ribbed pattern looked quite similar to the muscles in our body, and thought it would have been relevant to the voice and vocal muscles. Similarly I decided to hand knit the wire; I tried doing a small sample and it ended up looking pretty awful, just like tangled wire, but I was adamant to make the knitted wire work, so I tried again when I got home; this time using pastel colours. The colours were inspired from the response piece I did to the recording previously. The knitted wire represents the hard denser side to voice, the sharp attitude that voice can hold mixed with the soft side (wool); the sample basically represents any human being voice, the soft comfortable texture mixed with the sharp dense stiff texture.

Hand Knitted Samples - Knitting With Wire

After my 2nd attempt I was extremely happy with the sample; you could clearly see the entwined pattern withing the wire as it had kept good structure, on the blue section of the sample, I wove the wire and wool together, this had a really amazing affect, no only did it look intriguing, the way it held its structure was phenomenal. I am however dissappointed in my colour choice, it does seem pretty "schooly" and I would have liked to only use either darker tones or just a muted colour pallet, but overall I am happy with the wire work!