Iron Transfers!

These are just a few pictures messing about with iron transfers, I pulled out some of my daughters old clothes and tested how they turned out on different fabrics, I like them but the colour doesn't always come out great depending on the fabric, I think this is something I would want to explore further but maybe try it with screen printing.

 

And this is just because I was feeling Christmassy :) 

Playing around!!

 

I have just been playing around placing my drawings onto different surfaces, I like how they look but particularly like how my notepad designs look. I am going to try messing around with some iron transfer paper I bought and see what they come out like on fabric.

More Ideas !!

 These are a couple more designs I made up, after the first set of designs I did I felt they were fighting with the collaged background, I have made watercolour backgrounds for these instead and think the flatter background works much better, I have created these to maybe see what they look like as notepad designs..

Some more drawings!

Just some recent sketches I have done for my Natural World project!!

Final Ideas

 

These are my final ideas! I used Photoshop to overlap my images, I did a few tests with changing the colour of the silhouettes but I personally think they look better black! I think if I could go back and change anything I would want to spend more time creating my final designs ! I love them and think they work well, I would just like to spend as much time on the final bits as I spend on my drawings!

Collage

 

These are what I am planning to use as a background to my images, I created these by making collages out of ripped bits of paper I got from magazines, photocopied and coloured paper that i bought! I made them in a3 size then used the photocopier to blow up certain bits of the collage and these are the outcomes I also played with making them all one colour and inverting the colours.

I really enjoyed doing this, I think my problem is I don't just mess about when I am creating things, so doing these collages was nice not knowing what I am going to end up with!

Refined Drawings!

These are the final drawings I have chosen to use! I am really happy with the outcome of both. I think from last year my drawing is a big improvement!

Drawings!!

 

 

These are some of my drawings from my sketch book, I just used black acrylic ink for all my drawings, the idea is to have all the threats than man poses to animals as silhouettes and over lap them in some way to make a final design! The final design idea I have in mind is to apply the pattern to a notebook, so I need to think of ideas for a background design that will bring everything together.  

Natural World

I have neglected my blog for quite a while.. this is where I am up to so far !

Originally I was working on the non place brief over the summer and into the first week of starting back at uni, but decided to change to the natural world because I hit a wall with my drawings, I think this was mainly because I wasn't finding my subject matter particularly inspiring!

I decided to move onto the natural world brief! I chose to go down the route of endangered species at first, the plan was to illustrate numerous endangered species and the threats that caused their situations! Going at it from this angle did not work I think because I was constricting myself with only a few animals !

Speaking with a tutor I then came to the decision to just make my work about the threat of man to animals, this was a big help with my drawings as I had more freedom with it.

Ballerina's Final

These are my final designs for this brief i have ended up really enjoying this brief and even though it took me forever to come up with ideas i made it in the end!! I am going to narrow these down to 4 but i havent decided which ones yet!

Ballerina's 3...

These are my ballerina's but iv added tutu's to them, i really like how the black and white dancers and the bright coloured tutu's are working together im really happy with the outcome !! On some i have done numerous tests with the colour tutu i want to use.