design!

In the beginning of this week I've done a few more collaged drawings. 

During this, I thought collaging is probably the best way for me to pull out the image in my mind, that I can paint, cut, tie, glue and cut again, and I quite enjoy this endless process.

On Tuesday I had my tutorial in a small group, and it was really nice to see how everyone else was getting on. The group tutorial actually made me realised that I need to have my mood boards as soon as possible. Without mood boards—and with my insufficient English—, people hardly get the idea of what I'm particularly interested in, so the mood boards must be done before the mid-term review with Niki.

Susan told me to start considering about the actual design, technical aspects and products, and also suggested to look at a couple of designers. It seemed to me too much to do all by next Monday but actually the process is quite straightforward. 

On the same day we had a technical workshop class too. I really liked industrial sewing machines although they scared me because they're so fast and loud. Irish machine allows you to stitch as draw, and with tufter machine you can make interesting texture and colour combinations. 

technical sample of Irish machine

Towards the end of this week, I'm more focusing on design. Firstly I took closed up photos of my drawings in oder to get interesting shapes rather than keep the silhouette of people, then again crop the photos to get smaller pieces which are more developable than bigger ones with stable patterns. 

Even though my photoshop skill is still limited, last year's CAD workshop definitely helped me a lot, that I'm enjoying playing with it. For the design I took colours from my colour book, and I'm quite happy with them, but scales and layouts needs to be explored more over the next week.

crop the red rectangle 

one of my favorite design developed from the piece above