Bibliography

Books

• Hannah Hoch -Cut with the kitchin Knife. By Maud Lavin
• Fashion Illustration Now
• New Fashion Illustration
• 100 Years of fashion. By Cally Beackman (2003)
• Over & Over. By Mike Perry (2007)
• Hand Job (a catalog of type). By Mike Perry
• Illusise - Contemporary illustration and its context. By Claudia Mareis (2007)

Illustrators & Websites

• http://www.illustration-kitchin.co.uk/   Rebecca Kitchin
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/handmadeandbound/ hand made zines
• http://amarettogirl.squarespace.com/blog/2008/11/15/kat-macleod-inspiring-artist.html     Kat Macleod 
•  http://www.nicolejarecz.com/                 Nicole Jarecz
• http://www.mydeadpony.com/                My Dead Pony
•  http://www.colagene.com/en/illustration/anne-cresci#3218    Anne Cresci
• www.gemmalatimer.com/        Gemma Latimer
• http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/7933/1/linder-sterling   Linder Sterling
• http://www.erinpetson.com/   Erin Pestson
• http://www.jenrenninger.com/ Jen Renninger

Magazines

• Vogue
• Elle
• Glamour
• Look
• More
• Vanity fair
• Vice
• Pop
• Etc...

Conclusion

Through keeping this Blog, I have been able to successfully portray all the decisions and experimentation's that I have had to make to get top the stage of my project now.
My idea's throughout this project have changed several times, but the one thing that I have kept the same from day one is the linking meanings of 'Obsession' and 'Guilty Pleasures'.

Near the beginning of this project I had decided to create a flyer for a new fashion range, or boutique shop, I stuck with this idea for ages, unsure of the end result when it came to giving my piece a name or deciding on the details like the location of this show, and questions such as:
'do I implement a list of designers on  a page of this flyer?'
'Will I be designing this advertisement piece for a fashion show?', 'Will there be a shop part advertised?'.
It wasn't until I had a WIP session with Derek, Louise and Chris, where I was admitting i was stuck when it came to visualising my end piece that I decided to change things to the way they are now. The space I have been given for our degree show was a big part in this, as the only effective way to present my work would be in poster format, Not straight forward blank wall / pictures in frames.. i can now add extras and present my work in the way that suits me and my style.

The amount of times I changed my idea when it comes to the layout of my work, in itself was a time waster, I kept getting lost when it came to visualising the final outcome, and how it would come together... if I had the chance to go back I wouldn't get hung up on the end piece, but give myself more development on the images them self.. To perhaps give my work that little bit more continuity... But I will just have to make the best of what I have now and hope the pieces will all come together as I have planned.
These pieces of work could be valid when it comes to mainly editorial work, and easily assembled in any fashion opening or event.

What to be expected in my final exhibition

Variations on work i want to produce.

Experimenting with past work

When it comes to work like this, and the I have done in the last few days. I'm going to print all of them out, and see how they fit together in front of me. This way I can gain more of a perspective on which ones I need to develop and why.

Finalising

If I were to select this image for my exhibition, it would be printed off at an A5 size, for one of the 'shoes' images.

numbers and layout

Alongside all my illustrations I am going to have around 5 or 6 images dedicated to typography, these will carefully placed to bring all my finals together, and clearly show the viewers what my work is about. Some of the planned type pieces are going to say; 'My fashion obsession is...', 'Between love and madness lies obsession', 'shoes', 'bags' etc.

Here I have started to layout a few images on my drawing board to have more of a vision on how many images I am going to have in my show, and how I can place them together for my idea to take off.

Looking back at one of my layouts I drew up for the exhibition and taking this into account, I have decided to choose between 10 - 15 finals to do up for my show.

Seeing what it would look like against the dress pattern tissue paper. This photo makes it clear to me, how I have to give my work that extra something to make them stand out in contrast of the background.

Photoshop edits

In this Illustration I have now noticed that I have left the 'H' out of fashion, this can be easily edited, if I do go on to use this type in one of my images.

Sewing Type

A couple of days ago I stated that i would love to experiement with typography via sewing (as another direct link to fashion) But as you can see in these photos above, i'm not as good at sewing as I thought id be... But I gave it a go, only to eventually see that this isnt where one of my strengths lie, and wouldnt work in my favour.

Sumery of my work so far

I am finally getting onto the right track for my project, I have made alot of changes within the last couple of weeks, and was worried that the project would loose its meaning in the process... But I think if I pull together maybe 3 - 4 pieces dedicated to text, this will bring in some continuety through my illustrations.

I have had a few days where I have been full on lost with where I could move forward with my idea, but today everything has become alot clearer in respects of my end result and how I will be presenting it in our degree show.

Photoshop edits

Above is a variation on what I could do for this simple collage. My favourites are; Top right and bottom left.

But I feel the top right has that little bit extra, the conrast of black and white have been put right up and a low opacity red stripe provides movement and a bright aspect to draw in the eye.

I have also been playing around with this image, and have come to like the edit below. The subtle block colours bring out the whole image, and provide a conrast from the textures of the collage.



Tutorial with Johnny Hannah

The main questions that i had for my tutorial with Johnny today, were mainly concerning methods of presenting my work at the end of year degree show. I have in the last couple of days rethought about having a book or flyer altogether, to just doing a collection of pieces that would anA2 size.

Having a look at the layout for everyones space in bargate, i have been given one out of a possible 4 glass display cabinets. Johnny and Pete explained to me how big it was, and this meant that i would have to scale down the sizes of some of my images slightly, but the idea of presenting my work in this way i thought was more exciting and alowed me to do alot more with my work in a way.

Here are a couple of variations on what i plan to do with my space provided. The one that i am most likely going to carry through (90% sure) is the 1st one shown above. Instead of painting the bottom of the case a traditional white, i want to paste on dress pattern tissue paper (that i bought the otherday) as this; i feel would tie all my illustrations together and keeps with in the theme of 'fashion'.

Advice from Johnny

One thing that Johnny did help me with a great deal today was helping me with idea's on how i can edit my exsiting collage work on photoshop. He mentioned that they all needed abit more colour and something more to give them more of a finish, as when it comes to colour within my work; it is all within the same spetrum of tones.

Experiementing for an A5 final / buisness card front cover

Here are some variations of this drawn image I have been working on, the process was to add a new layer - fill and multiply over the sketch.

I have decided not to go further with this particular image, as i cant get the standard of work that I was hoping for. But this method of lassoing block colour to a desirable shape to fit within this image, I feel fits in with my style of working, although sometimes well thought out it is also very spontanious and experimental.

Weekly To do List

Monday

• Scan in A3 sized collages
• Play around with scans on photoshop - variety of edits
• Make a list of possible phrase's and sayings that i could include on smaller collages
• Draw a variety of layout designs for Degree show

Tuesday

• Have a rough idea of how many images i want to be displayed, so i can manage the time i have left to get all the images right
• Work out which designs will be printed off bigger (a3 / a2) or smaller (a5 / a6)
• Work on Typography mainly today
• Have a go at sewing typography on fabric

Wednesday

• Continue editing exsiting collages
• Draw a few thumbnails on how i can develop some of my work

Thursday

• Developing images composition
• Experiment with sizes of work and how i would place them together

Friday

• Further Development on editing and the compostion of images.

Dress Patterns

For a week or two now i have been searching in staitionary and charity shops, for dress pattern tissue paper. The idea of implimenting this medium was from dereck, as the wh

Final Development

For my final illustrations, i will be now presenting them in an aprox A2 sized book. This in turn is steering away from my original plan of creating an advertisment flyer - my idea for the use of this now larger book would be that it will have all the same meanings and stories about it; this being 'Obsession' and 'Guilty pleasures' ... Instead i can see the purpose of this book hypathetically being presented inside a new fashion boutique shop.

The above two collages, i have now blown up to a larger scale, in hopes that i can use them in my final piece.

I have shown some stages of this image before, but this here is how this page will be shown, it was created using cuttings from a magazine (which have been torn / scratched into and scrumpled up), blue and black ink and acrylic paint.



Here i have scanned in some previous pieces of work to put together, one thing that lets this image down is the fact the drawing of the girl crouching down doesnt stand out enough... theres not enough contrast and definition.