Locating- Week 2

This week I continued doing research on my Pinterest board and finding more visual imagery to inspire me to create my own work. I decided to create some drawings that were more landscape based, as apposed to looking at the animal side of the wilderness. I think that these worked really well. I mainly used sticks and ink to create these drawings instead of brushes to create a more rugged and unique look, I preferred using this technique because I think it gave my drawings a more rural kind of feel. In this image below i really like the contrast between the black and white drawings and the colourful painting. I think that i may use this technique within more of my work.

I found after looking at the landscapes such as trees and mountain ranges, more visually interesting and inspirational to draw from as apposed to the animals. So I carried on running with this idea and created some more of these landscape type drawings using different techniques and media. 

Locating- Week 1

This week I started my new project ‘Locations’. For my ‘self driven’ part of this project I started with the initial themes of the outdoors and the wild. I started my project by first creating a Pinterest board to inspire me and help me get my ideas flowing. Collecting so much visual imagery on this board helped me see clearly the types of things that I was inspired by more than others. Here is a link to my Pinterest board for this project Into The Wild

After looking at all of my visual imagery I started to create some drawings of my own based on what I was looking at. At first I started creating watercolour drawings of animals, which I found interesting and portrayed the wilderness theme that I started looking at. Here are some of my initial drawings

I am thinking about taking this project in the direction based on interior textiles and not fashion so that I have had a chance to experiment in both fields to see which way I prefer working in. Using the visual imagery i have collected on my Pinterest board i created these 2 visual mood boards.

Locating Brief

For this my self initiated brief for this ‘Locating’ unit I will think of a concept so that I can collect a body of research and initial drawings to then develop into a range of prints designed for an interior setting. I will also develop my print designs to adapt them and make them suitable for a fashion context so that I can enter them into the Bradford textiles competition. I also would like to enter the combined processes section of the Bradford textiles competition. I would like to experiment with different processes in this unit to develop my overall skills and experiences. I am aiming this project towards interiors, as I have not previously designed for an interior setting. I think this project will be a good opportunity for me to try designing for something other than fashion.

What I would like to achieve from this unit is:

·      To create a range of prints for an interior setting

·      To create a range of possible fashion outcomes 

·      To network with the textile community

·      To experiment with different processes 

·      To enter the Bradford textiles competition- Combined processes 

·      To enter the Bradford textiles competition- Printed Textiles Fashion

·      To create a range of fabric samples