After finalising my ideas and choosing the prints that I wish to take forward, I feel that I need to make it clear about what I am making and what I want to draw as a technical drawing of the design that I want to take forward to see where I’m going to put details and zips and to see an overall look at what the shape might look like and any changes that I want to make. I can also use the technical drawing to help me consider where I want my prints to be on each of the garments. For the design that I want to take forward I wanted to develop just a few times more adding in shorts for under the skirt as I didn’t realise how high the skirt is at one of the side where I take it up by the ruching. Having the shorts underneath helps hide undergarments but also I feel completes the look. First getting the idea from my nan nappies and the idea of old age and her time in Bermondsey. I have develop these shorts in other designs and wanted to take forward to my final garment. After doing my first technical drawing I wanted to add a few more details such as the placement of the ruching in which I developed on the shirt and also change the shape of the skirt because I didn’t like the shape and thought that it would be unrealistic to be able to get the exact shape. After doing another technical drawing with the changes made I finally like the silhouette and thought that the drawing was clear for me and the viewer in what I wanted to design if I was to send it away. The other designs for my final line up I also developed and made a few changes and successfully created technical drawings for which will help me when testing my prints. I tested a few prints that I wanted to take forward together on my first design just to see whether they would go but as most my prints are quite dark from the filters that I have chosen the garment just looked to dark and you wouldn’t really be able to see the details when the garment would be made. Choosing the pink paint design with the dark pink repeated print I thought surprisingly went really well. With the lighter pink in-between it broke up the black from the shirt and the shorts which I really like when doing my first print placement. The other I tested just to see whether they would work but the first one really interested me to take it as my final design. After having chose these prints i tested them on the other designs and tested the placement on the garments to see the positioning and which one I like to take forward to my final lineup. I wanted to do a final lineup because I had a few designs that I wanted to take forward and develop further.
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