Part III

Well this is the last of my drawing development, now it's time to focus on final imagery and narrative for the book. I've started to include more observational drawing in my images but it's early stages and I've got loads more drawing to do, good times.

Something New

Hey all. Well I was hoping my next post would actually be pictures of my book but I can't upload those yet due to camera issues so instead here are some new sketches. I spoke to my tutor today and he basically told me I need to do way more observational drawing, so from now on people, if you see me I will be drawing you. He equated it to learning the piano and the practice people put into that, which reminds me of my sister, who is a professional musician at 16, she spends ages playing everyday, so now that is me, I will be a drawing machine. The only thing standing in my way is the small issue of a dissertation, but lets not think about that. Anyway these are sketches for one of the many (i hope) books I will make for my final major project. A bit of an extension from the last one, based on the tribal theme, I took it further by studying some of Mcqueen's newest designs from S/S 2011. Truly gorgeous dresses, which run along with my tribal theme. I want this book to be edgier and I'm really getting into drawing different hairstyles, the shaven head look and the two tone colour are ones I particularly like. Although they end up looking a bit like a certain rapper, prizes for guessing who...

The Final Tribe

The title of this post is slightly misleading, this is not infact the final collection, I still have a few more images to finish. But this is basically how they will look once their in the book (I might change up the sequence a little) I could have waited till they were all done but I'm at different stages with all the themes so it's difficult to blog up to date with these things. Anyway, as usual please let me know what you think now they've all been colourised (photoshop is getting the better of me!) I would love to hear your thoughts/ suggestions, more posts to come....

Overdrawn

My tribal theme seems to be taking on a life of its own, I keep coming up with new ideas so in turn I'm almost neglecting my other themes...oops. But this is most definitely blog month and I have been setting the A3 scanner alight the amount of times I've used it this month, so I'l just keep on updating, here are some more 'Warriors' as I've called them, I had the idea of taking really pretty dresses and drawing them on sword wielding ladies, certainly fashion with an edge, and speaks on some level on female empowerment (and maybe with an unintentional lord of the rings influence) and also I had to include my discovery of Marchesa's most recent collection, it's not strictly in keeping with the project but sometimes there are dresses you just have to draw. I hope I do them some kind of justice. (By the way the other dresses are Amanda Wakeley and Burberry)

On a last note, sometimes, you draw image after image just to get them done, and then sometimes you spend ages on one, because it's important to get a vision across. I think this was the case when I did my title page for 'The Tribe'.

Flowers and other themes.

Here's a bit of a jumble of themes, Underwater, Floral and then a few just general images which will probably also find their way into the book! Let me know what you think...

Through The Looking Glass

Themes part 2, the beginnings of my 'Alice' theme (Yes obvious choice I know but I love it!) and a few catwalk appearances.

New Beginnings..

So now its time to show you all the workings of my new project.When we were given another 'write your own brief project' I knew exactly where to start. In my final year the with the penultimate project, I decided to be a bit self indulgent, and I set myself the brief of creating a fashion lookbook, showcasing my illustration. I also want to develop how to best advertise garments, so I decided drawing inspiration from London Fashion Week 2011, I chose garments that I wanted to draw, some were challenging some were just a bit self indulgent. So designers such as Henry Holland, Matthew Williamson and Sass and Bide are now my inspirations. So like with photoshoots, I decided the best way to develop my drawings would be to create themes, inspired by the trends of LFW, so Henry Holland's fringing set up my tribal theme and Julien Mcdonald's floaty dresses inspired an under water theme, more detail to come on my themes once I have developed them further. But these are some sketches I did at the beginning (apologies for the lack of cropping) more to come.....