Fabrics for Furnishing and Fashion

I am currently half way through another assignment, Fabrics for Furnishing and Fashion. Starting with the fashion, I had to design three garments of my choice, either skirts, dresses or tops. I chose to do A-line skirts. These garment designs could possible go to Paris next year or to other trade shows so I wanted to make them as good as possible. The theme for the garments was floral so I started by doing drawing boards using flowers, and different medias. Here is an example of one of my drawing boards. I used baby blue as a background colour, as pastel colours are currently in fashion. The drawings are very graphic and stylised which is one way I like to draw. I used heavy black blocks and some subtle colouring using coloured pencils.

 

I did many different drawings to find exactly what I wanted for my garment designs.For this drawing I used gousche paint to create this bold painting of a iris. I like how bright and colourful it is. Gousche paint is one of my favourite wet medias to use.

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 I created this image by drawing on brown paper using fine liners and watercolours. This is very graphic but slightly more subtle than the iris with only sections of colour.

 This is the black and white version of the one above, I love the look of this, it's so wonderfully simple and yet stylised.