ANATOMY: presentation

So here it's it, thirteen long weeks of work. It's all come together and with an hour and a half to spare. The culmination of my research and design development is ready for all to scrutinise (so be nice!). 

For this collection we where asked to make a press pack that included a press release and photos of our garments. Here's mine. A beautifully hand made black envelope with my white print on in puff binder. 

My collection name Anatomy appears on the front and my logo to the back. 

Once opened you see a5 post card style documents backed with my white print on the black card. 

The press release tells of when and where my collection will be launched who will be invited and a small blurb about the collection and where it will be sold. 

The final design, back and front illustrations, complete with specification drawings and fabric samples. Sorry it's blurry I've had to edit it as my photography skills suck. 

Bones, the mentalist and the queen of skulls. Three more of my final illustrations. 

I decided as the collection was only in monochromatic colours that their hair and skin should be vivid. 

I researched in to Robert Best's style of illustration when creating my boards. I love his work for Matel, his Barbie drawings are adorable. 

So that's thirteen weeks of work, all brought together on four boards, a press release and a litte envelope. Feels bizarre. I have a massive sketch book, marketing report, technical file, bag and shirt to accompany them but these are more organised. I'm now progressing into my second year :/ 

But hey there's always time for a random animal. 

And today's animal is a badly drawn panda bear! Yay! Thanks for reading. Keep checking back for updates and new of my summer project. 

Feathers: any of the flat appendages growing from a bird's skin and forming its plumage.

Feathers are great I love them nearly as much as fur. I think my fondness comes from the inspiring designs that the great late Alexander McQueen produced. Although feathers can be light and angelic, they can also be dark, moody and quite evil in appearance. Colleen Atwood use them beautifully in Snow White and the Huntsman for Charlize Theron's costumes.  

The dark sinister feel is amazing, the darkness really caught my attention and I decided to design a few like that. But with more of a feminine thuch. 

This was the first and most horrible of drafts, drawn with my four year old nieces pens. I've tried to create a sharp bodice that flows in to a feathered skirt.

That then inspired this page of doodles, at first I mainly focused on the bodices, but the huge feathered skirt made a reappearance far right. 

I really liked the end image. So re did it portrait on a3. To start I used pencil and fine liners. I couldn't make it dark enough so added black acrylic. 

A quick comparison to the first. 

A close up of the feathers. I love how mutch detail I managed to cram in. 

The shoes id love to make these, it's a shame my name isn't Louboutin. Maybe one day they will be real. 

Collar to cuff: coloured designs

Here I have been trying out different media formats on my designs, this page has a mix of acrylic water colours and pencils. 

Here I have used acrylic for the shirts and skirt and water colour for the skin. Model three has a Robert best style face.

Heee I have only used acrylic and loved the colour on the skirt and on the hair.

 

A mix of pencils an acrylic. 

I've mainly used water colour for these. The hair was acrylic.  

I've used charcoal pencils for the first time here, and the model looks a lot like skeletor :/. 

By the time I had got to these designs I seemed to have got the hang of it. 

Charcoals again. 

I really liked these mainly because I had doodled a louboutin pump in the middle. I have used acrylic on all of these. 

A mix of acrylic and water colour.

               RANDOM PARROT :). 

My design boards are next, i need to add media to my final nine and arrange them on the boards. Then I will post an update.