Two

It was highlighted to me in my tutorial that I haven’t really moved my work forward since last week, I think I have been trying to look at a too broader range of inspiration and so will focus on just one aspect of my concept for this four week project.

Whilst I was presenting my sketchbook work, the words ‘subtraction’ and ‘marks left’ were suggested in response. I built a new, more focused mind map to reflect these ideas and have been working more on manipulations of drawings to direct my work.

I have also developed a colour pallete to work from. I decided to keep the tones quite neutral with flashes of read and orange to reflect a lot of the work in my sketchbook and as I want to focus on techniques, I think too much colour would be distracting at this stage. As I am working to a menswear context for this project I have also kept this in mind when developing my colours.

(colour ideas)

Playing with destructive processes to knit samples, I began a few experimental samples. I like the effects of both of the samples below and can work on refining techniques to achieve a higher quality aesthetic to them. 

(Painted mock rib)

(burnt knit)