Customer Profile | Concept Board

I have used Poppy Delevigne as my muse, she is a 27 year socialite and model from London. She is the perfect age for what I am aiming for (25-35). She is a young professional who can afford to spend a bit more on quality she is into fashion and follows new trends but also sets her own trends, constantly featuring in style magazines. She isn't afraid to make bold choices with print but styles it well so it is not over bearing, she is simplistic and sophisticated but yet cool and effortless.  

Final Colour Palette

After hours of stress and frustration I finally found a colour palette I liked and one that worked well with my motifs. The combination of the dark greens and red together work well to create a rich and vibrant palette. 

Colour palette rethink .

I have been really struggling with my work over the past few days, I was finding it hard to get the right colour combinations. I have had to change my colour palette twice due to them not corresponding and working with my motifs. Both these colour palettes have to bright and pastelly colours rather than the richer royal feel I am going for.

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New Prints

I have bee working on some new prints today. I tried to concentrate on the colour palette bringing forward a range of the colours and shifting the colour balance. I also played around with layers trying to make them look detailed and almost 3D. 

Prints on Fashion Garments

I want to design for fashion rather than interiors so I have been looking at transferring my prints onto garments seeing how they translate and work on different shapes. Also playing with the scale of the print. I know the range of garments I want to put my prints on , I want to work with simple shapes but also contrasting textures. I worked on photoshop creating layers and masks. It was hard to find garments I wanted my work to go onto, as the garment had to be white so the choice was limited. This week I am going  to try and do my own fashion illustrations so I know exactly what my collection will look like.

Creating Textured Surfaces

Using my colour palette, I have been using paints on top of textured paper. I wanted to try and create an almost leather feel which I could then print on top of. I want to bring the idea of texture into my prints. I want to create prints to put onto fashion garments so I went to the Photoshop 01 workshop with Alex today and learnt how to place my prints onto garments. I found this workshop very helpful and I'm going to use this technique heavily in my work seeing how my prints translate onto garment shapes also playing with scale.

Colour palette Experimentation

I have been working on bigger scale this week working with backgrounds and using acetate on top. Combining linear and geometric shapes with textured backgrounds. I don't usually work on bigger scale so this was a test for me. I liked working on textured surfaces, I think it works well and I am going to further with this. Trying to combine the textured effect into my digital and hand prints. I don't think the black acetate on top of the coloured background, so when taking into digital I am going to work on top with a more subtle tone. 

Mood board and colour palette

Here is a mood board I created with my own pictures and artists work that relate to mine. I feel it's giving me a clear idea of what my project is based on. I have also created two colour palettes using my own photographs these can then be used in the print room as digital print to keep my prints together as a collection.

Photoshop .

So I decided to scan my drawings into photoshop. I then started layering the animal drawings with the mechanical drawings also combining the typography. I had a large colour palette as I was experimenting with both palettes I had created. The illustration prints weren't working (see below)  as well as I originally planned and I think this was due to the wide range of colour I was using. The prints were not acting as a collection, I wanted for each one to be different but still allowing the audience to see a definite and obvious colour palette. I have now decided to go with the second palette I created as the colours work better together!

Final colour palete

Colour palette ideas.

Today I began looking at concept of colour. My drawings have all been black and white so have been working with colour after looking at how Stuart Patience combines his drawings with colour. I want a lot of colour so I'm going to start experimenting with layering in photoshop to create a series of digital illustrations or prints. There is a key colour palette that runs parallel with both of my objects which is why I chose them. The colours in both are very soft and pastel like.

Nursey Book

Wind Up toy

Colour Board.

I have chosen my two favourite images that I took on my journey around Manchester as an inspiration  for my colour board. These were the colours I carried through in my drawings and my designs.