final major project update #3

.The pressure is on. I finish college in under 2 weeks! I will hopefully be done on time, I just have to finish my garments. I'm making 2 dresses, a shirt and trousers. Here are a few of my fashion illustrations from my sketchbook:

I have never screen printed before this project but it was something I really wanted to learn so Dean showed me how one afternoon and I plan to use it on my final garments. 

(first ever screen print!)

I had some issues with deciding what colour I wanted to screen print in. I wanted the garments to be monochrome with one accent colour. I started off using black which worked really well but didn't add any thing extra to the garments. I experimented with a light grey (did not work!), a sort of burgandy colour (too boring) and eventually settled on a purple I mixed up. The grey suiting I bought for the trousers and dress has purple threads running through it so I thought the colours really went well.

Of course I've stitched my street names into it too so I've gotten my words in.

I have had a slight crisis since my last update. I planned to laser cut leatherette for the shirt and dress I am making but when I phoned the DCA to book in the laser cutter was booked straight through to the 17th May (my final deadline is the11th). After crying my eyes out my tutor, Claire, pointed me in the direction of Jane, who runs LaserFlair in Fife, and I've planned to meet her on the 3rd! So hopefully all will be ok!

final major project update #2

So much has happened since my last post! After spending an entire day trying to cut a detailed map by hand (horrid), I booked myself in for a tutorial on the laser cutter at the DCA. And I am in love. The tutorial took about an hour and just taught me the basics to the laser cutter at the DCA. I wasn't planning on spending long there but ended up staying for about 7 hours! I had to scan the images from my sketchbook then edit them so that the lines were super clear and then, with the help of my tutor Dean, changed them to vector files. I had no idea until I had to do it but this just means that the laser knows what lines to follow when it is cutting. 

The photos are a few of the cuts I did on my first time there. I mainly used paper, I did attempt to cut into a photograph and the photo just above is a train ticket cut into. I was so amazed by the machine that I took a video: