Lesson Eleven: Feedback on what is left to complete.

This lesson consisted of us looking at what wasn't clear within our body of work. After talking to a member of staff I then went on to create the textile sample below to show how this garment could be constructed. And what it would be made up of, so it would give a clearer message.

I have also spent the time, making my journal stronger having looked at a number of fashion and textile designers, below is a select few, I have found really influencing.

I have also had another go at developing my E-portfolio pages, and I think I am now happier with the results as I think that they have more structure and are clearer to read.

Lesson Ten: Reviewing Design Development and Planning Portfolio Pages.

This lesson was really constructive, I felt that the feedback I was given was really relevant and helpful. I had all ready done a large body of work, but having someone else look at it helped me see different areas I was missing.

I have drawn my final collection up again as, it wasn't really reflecting the textiles side of the word twisted, i have done these illustrations in a collage technique having actually taken photographs of the samples in my sketchbook and photo copied them.

These are my final six which I think now look more relevant to the rest of my work:

I have also managed to do my portfolio pages, dispite my lack in knowledge in Photoshop, so I am really happy with the results, I am planning to have my teacher review them before printing in A3 as, there maybe elements I can improve on and haven't noticed myself.

Lesson Nine: Design Development

I was actually un-able to attend this lesson due to illness, however I had a copy of the brief and have worked through what would have been asked of me in class. I have really enjoyed working through the design development process.

If I was going to do this again, I would have began to work on our word differently, so that I could have a stronger more adventurous concept to design from, but I have never created my own concept before, so this is something I have learnt.

Below are the photographs I have taken, of the development and process that I have carried out to get both a final collection and illustrations.

This was the first draft of my collection of 6 garments.

I then developed the designs into front and back views, playing with hair colour and design still. 

Again here, this is the other half of the collection I have developed, the other thing here I am not sure about is the fact that I have put all of them in boots. 

After looking at the whole collection together I have decided that this design, is what is making the collection look military which wasn't intentional, so I am going to remove it.

I did then draw the collection out again, so that it looked finished and fitted well together.

This is the design that have now put in the place of the weakest one that I didn't feel fit in.

I then went on to look into some illustrators that I liked the style of before drawing up my own illustrations. The work above and below is by Gustavo Arango, I thought his work was really good and strong, however I found someone I wanted to work with more. 

This is Peter Som's work, which I really liked to look of, and you can see below it is really loose and free.

This is one of the two final illustrations I have created inspired by Peter Som's work.

Lesson Eight: Design Development Workshop

I really liked the idea of what we were doing however I was really struggling to get the amount of work done in the time given.

I have used photocopy's of my different twisted research that had been carried out in my sketchbook to give imagery and inspire these quick idea pages.

We then began to take these idea pages and develop them into designs, picking a design and developing it through around 5 different ideas before moving on the next. I did change my lay figure though,  as I felt my first one wasn't true to the shape of a fashion model.

Below are some photographs take of the process I have gone through and some of the out comes I have reached: