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Textile Design Outcomes

Through these designs I wanted to be able to include What I learned from the first part of this field module, Drawing Philosophy, To be more expressive with my work. As unfortunately I didn’t experiment much with textiles in the first half because my content in my drawings wasn’t very inspirational enough to experiment with. Now I can take what I learned and use it in this half of the module which now gets the ball rolling for my textiles designs.

These examples have been created by heat press paints and various material types. With heat press, the more vibrant colours come out on synthetic fabrics but I have used both synthetic and natural to get different effects. Many of these designs have grown from the smaller quick sketches from the gardens and the park. Some have come out really well like the one above.

The above design is of an abstract swan from the park, I created this by expressing more through my way of drawing, this is what a style that I developed from drawing philosophy. This heat pressed and layered on more designs worked out really well.

Again this is a representation of the water.

I love this design above, it is a layering of wood markings and knots. I creates such an organic feel and works really well on fabric so it desirable to drape and touch.

Monday Morning trip to Roath Park

Independently, I decided to take a trip to Roath Park in Cardiff to do some more drawing similar to the national botanical gardens of wales. These were a bit less man made than the gardens as nature grows where it wants to which had a much more organic fresh feel which was sort of more inspiring that the gardens. Below is just a couple of trees that varied throughout the park. This was just to get the jist with shape and form which could be used as inspiration later.

Although I said early Roath Park seemed more organic, it has a man made lake which inhabits loads of bird life. This were also helpful to sketch as they didn’t move too much. I have always loved birds so I knew that I would be able to use them in my work.

Water has always been a challenge for me to draw but being in the same environment for a period of time gave me a little time to practice. As is was a clam day the water had some brisk movements which gave me a variety to experiment with. I had some cool outcomes that I was actually pleased with considering I wasn’t able to do it before.

In result in this experiment, it has given me more drawings to create further designs for my final body of work including actual textile pieces to link it to my practice.

Finished landscape designs

I used four different medias to create these pieces, first pencil, water colours, gouache and biro pen. All four pieces meet up into a 360 view so when all joined it would be the view that I saw.

Unfortunately all joined up it isn’t really possible to catch the effect of the contrasting pieces together. This was a good experiment for using mixed media to create one piece.

The trip to southerndown beach

This was the second trip to a coastal path and beach that was again used for inspiration for my work. The task was do to the opposite of the first, to draw the actual landscape this time but to draw it in a 360′ view. This was to stretch the thinking of how you would normally draw a landscape, as usually for this example to draw the very breath taking view of the sea crashing upon the cliffs but also drawing what would be behind that. This means not really being able to choose what we want to put in our landscapes to make them interesting and beautiful. However on the occasion, sometimes the none picturesque view can be more interaction outcome than the one expected.

Above is the picturesque view.

This one is the none picturesque view.

As the weather was bad, wind and rain, we were unable to finish these long landscape drawings. They were to be done in four goes. As I took photos of the view I am able to finish the drawings in my own time. I discovered that it is hard to position and scale the landscapes which was a good challenge for myself. Below is just a starter of the four drawings.

They’re unfinished yet but are developing nicely, I have and am going to use a different media for each section. When finished I wish put together to make a 3D view. So far my favourite is the none picturesque view which was no what I expected at that start of this task when I saw it for real. I’d like to do this again but finish it in the actual outdoors to get the full feel of this exercise.

Here are just some more views I saw. Also a quick sketch of the ‘secrete garden’.

Some designs and sketches developed from botanical gardens trip

I developed the drawings below from the 100 small drawings from my first trip, I wanted to take them and make them in to designs that I could potentially take back in to my studio to recreate textile outcomes. Again they show similar aspects as the originals as the are simple line drawings with a little added detail effect to make them slightly more interesting. These pictures below have a slightly more design look due to arrangement of the designs compared to one block image. I can really see the benefit of starting to get first hand sketches to improve inspiration in future designs. As I find it any enjoyable experience I will continue to go out and collect images from my travels. I am very much looking forward to my next trip to the Brecon Beacons where here are massive waterfalls that will provide an amazing photo taking opportunity and to also build upon more first hand sketches to later develop.

Above I took the picture of my wood markings and exaggerated the darker lines in the wood to make this very watery feel, then tried to recreate the lighter lines with water to create a natural look, I could create this through the ease of stitch and printing.

This design was all about arrangement and creating a layered pattern to represent the vast amount of grouped snow drops I saw clustered together, as this would of taken ages to of done realistically, I flipped the same design up side down which allowed me to get this full effect.

This next one was mould from the floor, I loved the shapes and re-caught them. I believe this would make an interesting biological repeat pattern.

I loved the shape of these flowers from when I was sketching them, most flowers are pretty and delicate shapes but these are so robust and almost ugly to look at. I wanted to make up a design that would bring out the character in these flowers that would be very bold and eye catching as they were. Playing around with scale was a big factor here. Experimentation really is the key.

Matching sketches with Sketches

In the photo below you can see I have split up all the mini sketches in relation to similarities such as line or stroke, or blending it even tone. This is an exercise so I can develop all my smaller drawings into larger more creative ones from inspirational aspects.

Below are some outcomes that I came up with by using similar techniques but with more media.

This drawings have been blown up in scale and focused on both micro and macro features.

70 of the 100 Sketches

These are my small sketches that I produced. Here you can see the scale and how simple they can be so a simple line can be inspiration for my work.

Here are just some close ups of the first picture.

Using photographs for drawing

In the first photo, I drew over a news paper article photo to challenge if this would be a representation or expression. I used different colours to enhance the photo. I drew without looking but still with the image in view so I could still sort of follow the outlines. I really liked this outcome, although photographs are now argued to be the new drawing as they are a physical representation, where as now I have turned it back in to a real drawing.

The second picture was a page three model for people to admire as a representation of a beautiful woman, however I again played around with unconventional ways of drawing and used my fingers to smooth pair around her curves and express what I see as beauty rather than pornographic photos.

Representation vs. Expression Example

This is a comparison from my normal style in the top left of the photo to the new expressive embodied style in the bottom right. Here I was actually trying to feel the ridged mountain rather than drawing an exact representation which sometimes I do still prefer.