From my research and my designs i thought it would be good to develop these ideas and research onto the stand by drawing out the shapes from my research and placing it onto the body using paper. I really like this technique because it helps you to get the first initial thoughts of your deigns and research together. Any prints or pictures on a body shape and placed side by side to see wether they go. I used pillow shapes from my research and draping shapes from a clothing line with clothing hanging from it. In one stand work i really like the shape of the top part and wanted to develop this shape further by adding the same part but making it slightly bigger, then overlapping it. I really liked the shape that i found from this and will then develop this further using fabrics and then onto a person. I also liked how the shapes has also created straps on the garment which will help me when it comes to development to see where to put them on the body and how I can then develop them by drawing over them with tracing paper, and then back to the stand using fabrics or deconstructing and reconstructing garments.
However, one stand work i really didn’t like i placed the pillow shape, overlapping making the main body seem really long and then placing a skirt shape from the clothing line made it look a weird shape. Maybe if i exact more shapes from my research then this idea could become more successful for me them to develop further.
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