Well...I think its time I gave an insight into my work and how my project has been going. From the start my ideas have constantly changed and this project I have felt a little lost...but the good news is I think i'm finally on track and know where my collections are going!
My project started by looking at historic revival...so I went into Leeds City Centre and started photographing building of historical context and developing drawings based upon these buildings. The two most influential buildings of this project would be Leeds Town Hall and The Turreted Baroque Pearl Assurance Building. These two buildings I have found particularly inspiring from their structure and textural qualities.
This is the most influential drawing I have created for the basis of my designs...it comes from the inspiration of the textural qualities from a photograph taken from the side of Leeds Town Hall. However, development of this will be made as my tutor has advised 'steering clear from the ruler'. I sometimes get into the perfectionist state of mind and need to let this go slightly in order to free up my drawings to develop ideas further.
This knit sample, comes from the idea of the previous image. Looking at texture was my main priority here, obviously the photograph does not show all of the textural qualities created by the different yearns and techniques. A 1X1 rib and half cardigan combination was used for this sample.
More development drawing...
Focusing on techniques and tension.
I will be putting up a lot more photographs of all the samples I have created over the past few weeks and include some of my main inspirational drawings, so keep checking back :)
