Final Piece

My sketch books helped me to develop techniques that were then used in my final design. Through researching into different artists and materials I chose to develop my most successful and the methods I most enjoyed to create my final design. For my final design I created a PVC skirt with illustrations, text and embellishment. The PVC skirt has black boning to keep the skirt well structured. I chose black boning rather than white because the illustrations were outlined in black so it kept continuity through my design. The illustrations were designs of Lisolette Watkins, they were created on calico and worked on top of, the skin is painted with acrylic and the detail was all stitched, I also interpreted coloured materials into the illustrations. On the bottom of the skirt I created a range of circles which were all inspired by the embellishment on my first mini outcome. I exaggerated these circle with the use of foil, netting, material, stitch and PVC. These added a vast amount of colour to my final piece. I then added text in the style of Garance Dore to make the final design unique and more in depth so it was interesting to make and look at. My final design was based on the theme of portrait illustration. During the majority of my sketch book I focused on fashion illustration and portrait illustration and this inspired me to elaborate on them and design an piece of work that includes a variety of illustration, text and embellishment. For my final piece to be successful I had to consider all aspects of the design process from the colour scheme to the size of the illustrations. Garance Dore and Lisolette Watkins were the two artists that influenced my designs. Garance Dore used bold, black text next to her illustrations I felt this was an inspiring contrast to the subtle illustrations and hence why I decided to use this in my final design. Different materials were used to show a diverse range of textures and colours. For the illustrations I used calico as the base, with subtle skin colours I painted with gouache the skin. The whites of the eyes were also painted to allow the illustration a precise finish. To enable the illustrations to be cut out without any stray edges I sewed the black outlines thicker on the edges. The circles on the bottom of the design were full of excitement, the vast amount that I produced was beneficial to my design, it showed the colours I loved to use and the excitement I like to create from the vast variety of materials and textures. My final design is how I imagined it to be, the illustrations were developed to a strong level and I feel that my stitch has improved and developed from the beginning of the project. If I had more time to create my final piece I would have simply added to the amount of illustrations on the skirt. Different sized portraits could have been added too; this would have just made it more exciting and more to look at. If I could go back and start the project again I don’t feel I would have approached the illustrations any different however the size I may have considered a little more, I feel that maybe lots of little illustrations may have been more unique to look at rather than 4 large illustrations. Overall I am proud with the final design and like any other piece of work, more time would have just made it a little more interesting.

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