Doing the paperwork...

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. – Lana Turner

What a week it has been!! We are now over a month into the FMP and we should all be stressing past ourselves with the idea that Dan told us of living and breathing our project and everything that is consumed around it… I’m living and breathing (thankfully, or I wouldn’t be blogging to you my faithful chums). BUT when it comes to doing it with fashion and my FMP, you want the honest answer? I guess I’m not. Previously in my life, thinking that asking people questions on a subject matter that they have no clue on was a good idea… I did get some good answers tho! Also that I finally won at Bowling!! Don’t applause even though would be very much welcomed, thank you very much to you sir thank you please. Yesh, I guess winning was a triumph in my debacle as I never win and been called a sore loser on many occasions, but now being called a sore winner OBJECTION MY LORD. Even though creating an ‘L’ with my right hand in victory and shoving it in my opponents face this way and that was part of my way of showing I had done good for society and mankind. Such fun.
Now back to what you are here to learn about, even I have forgotten. Oh yes, Art Foundation work which is slowly taking over my life in such a way that even cleaning has become more interesting and a better sort of a distraction.

This picture relates to where my work on the paper garments had begun as this image represents the tweaked dress that it originally came from. (See first images at top of page). Looking at newspaper and how it can be shaped has enabled me to analyze and show the ideas behind disposable fashion and how it can be adapted allowing it to show how you can create a series of different garments simply from one. The drawing was constructed from pencil and promarkers and I feel my drawings are progressing rapidly as I watch more and more YouTube video tutorials on Fashion design and illustration. The pens allowed me to create shades of light and dark to create shape and emphasis. I took inspiration from the tuxedo with the tail creating the shape and flared nature and details. I felt inspired by Gary Harvey as he created a paper dress.

Experimenting with water colour has enabled me to look at using a different way of drawing dress design and is allowing me to play around with brush strokes and tones as a way of determining the best way of drawing objects. The water colour allows me to create flowing lines which fade out into nothing showing depth and the diverse nature between light and shade. Using strong lines and colours allow me to deliver a powerful outline that provides me with enough detail as the designer to then go on and make the garment. Overall within this part of my project I am happy with what is going on and how it is progressing.

Doing some further more diverse research into the effects of fashion on the high street has allowed me to gain opinions from others as a way of coming away from the secondary sources that we all become reliant on. I used Facebook as a way of gaining valuable 1:1 information on my area of study. I asked, ‘Do you think the London Riots of 2011 affected the image of fashion?’ and ‘Do you think we are seen as the puppets of the high street?’ From these answers I gained a range of different answers and conducted this with a variety of different results. I could be seen as an experiment as it has allowed me to see who responds and what responses I get with the different times of day that it was posted. This can be accessed if requested or maybe I could post them on another post? Who knows…
Overall I am pleased with the amount of people who have responded to my questions or mini survey.