Seeing in my sketch book after most of my initial designs, for me to be able to move on with a couple of designs and develop them further, creating a Design Board then lets me narrow it down and really focusing on rendering some of my chosen designs. I have a couple of stand work and ideas that I really want to focus on and take forth for my final FMP outcome. When I first made my design board I wasn’t happy with the layout and the idea that I was trying to get across. I feel that it didn’t have an equal amount of stand work, not enough colour samples and to much research that it took most of the room up on the page. However, I feel that the collaging and the drawing really displayed my idea of the silhouette and details that I would like to take forward into further development. I could then start to look at adding patterns to the board. What the designs might look like with the prints or colours together on the garment. I could do this by photoshop and adding in the colours to drawing or stand work, or even simpler I could print the silhouette out with the print and collage then together. To develop my board further, I could add some toile sample to the board to show the detailing in which I would like on the garment by collaging. What I could add to this design board now is fabric sampling to show which fabrics I would like to take forward for my designs.
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