Development of Materials and Colour.
- I had my prints digitally printed on different fabrics that I felt were more suitable and durable to be used on bags. Rather that the thinner materials I was using I chose a blackout waterproof, crushed velour, suede and a velvet shimmer to print my designs onto.
- I felt these would be thicker materials that would work better in context and more appropriate fabric choices.
- Waterproof blackout and suede are my preferred fabrics overall, but I think the shine from the crushed velour and velvet shimmer works as a better contrasting material when layered with the leather materials.
- After analysing all my samples I found that together as a collection the prints were all a bit too similar and there was a lot of the same colour blue.
- I felt some more colour could be added into the prints to brighten them up. Editing the brightness and colour of my prints I made them more vibrant and brighter with a wider range of blues including turquoise and a lot more orange added.
- Also changing the scale of some print, enlarging the design to make a bolder print.
- Thinking about my prints in context, working on bags I feel a vibrant print would work as the inlining of a bag or been layered as a print, contrasting with black and navy leathers.
Digital and Screen Printing.
- Using the digital heat transfer to print my designs I have created on Photoshop to transfer onto material and keeping the graphic design.
- Screen printing over the top to add in more colour, especially orange.
- Wanting my prints to have a shine I also foiled onto fabrics to add brighter, stronger colours that worked well on chiffon compared with other fabrics.
- Printing over the top of laser cut pieces as well for double the design, the materials I screen printed onto didn't seem to work as well as they dye didn't seem to settle on them.
- I think my design worked better when digitally printed with additional screen printing over the top compared to the design all been screen printed as the images became more solid. More detail of colours and textures comes through when digitally printing my design which works better.
Context and Laser Cutting.
- Looking at what materials I wanted my design to be printed onto I felt that my prints would work better for women's accessories rather than womenswear clothing.
- I think my designs would work well on bags working with laser cut pieces as well as my print designs.
- Working with thicker materials such as denim, faux leathers and PVC.
- Including laser cut pieces into my work, I have played around with the idea of layering my prints underneath cut pieces.
- Having my prints on light weight materials that have a shine such as chiffon, organza and satin I feel works as a good contrast in materials with thick, dark denim and faux leather over lays.
- Creating different design to laser cut I found that some of the designs where too small to let through any print. I re created some new, lager designs to laser cut that worked better together.
- Laser cutting worked better on thicker fabrics as the thicker materials such as chiffon where too delicate the the laser designs.
Development.
- Developing my drawings through Photoshop and changing the scales of my drawings on the photocopier, my drawings are turning more into print patterns.
- Cropping sections of my designs and using a smaller section of them to work with in my prints.
- Creating all over patterns as well as placement prints.
- I developed my drawings further by adding in a blue to my colour scheme to brighten my prints up as they were starting to look a bit dull.
- Printing onto blue card so the blue became an all over background colour or by having it as an accent colour within my prints.
- Thinking about my design been on the body and shrinking down the scale.
Initial Drawings.
- Drawing from my primary photos.
- Creating mark making prints using mixed media.
- Responding to my photos by using bubble wrap, embossed paper and sponges to building up some drawings.
- Working with a colour scheme of from my photos, a variety of different tones in greys, oranges and browns.
Zac Posen.
- Posen has used technical fabrics within his collection such as surgical mesh for his cocktail dresses detailed with raw and aged glass beads that make the outfit glow, illuminating features on the dresses.
- Using technology with in fabrics to create colour and design of an outfit.
- Looking at the types of fabrics Posen uses for his garments and how these bring light, radiating colour from them.
