Design Blog Session

This was the second part of my Integrated Studio Project based on striped shirts. After deconstructing a white shirt, I went to local fabric stores near the fashion building of Parsons and took some striped cotton
swatches, considering the grain line I want the stripes to follow. Next I created a mood board inspired by the striped suit of Beetlejuice and incorporated one of my favorite character, Lydia Deetz into my project giving a gothic inspired theme of the collection. To further enhancethe “gothic” feel, I incorporated a graveyard in the background followed by floating shirts (images taken from the deconstructed white shirt) and made them appear as ghosts, recalling the scene when Lydia takes photos of two ghosts with literal white cloak over them. Considering all these ideas and swatches, I created a mostly tailored collection where the collars, yolks, and sleeves are all considered for the collection. To make collection appear less static, I incorporated a black shadow reaching towards the left of the background giving a film noir comic feel to it as I continuously aim for the superhero comic and film noir aesthetic. I attempted to mimic the anatomies of the comic figures as well as medium, using strokes of micron lines as shadows. As a result, my teacher told me that everything was coherent but wished to see more images of Lydia. This project was a great warm-up and practice.

 

These figures were rendered from Drawing Studio Class. We focused on creating patterns and textures of different types of fabrics, ie. the houndstooth pattern. Using gouache for the first time, I used the number sign and overlapped it onto each other lightest number to the darkest number. After piling layers of numbers, I finally added the white number layer as touch-up to emphasize the black and white materials used in the jacket. After applying all the colors to where they should belong, I added the shadows to give the figure more depth. The other figure was drawn from a magazine depicting Lady Gaga dressed in every houndstooth pattern there is possible, ie. houndstooth in hat, glasses, suit, skirt, stocking, and heels. Vasilijia taught us how to imitate the pattern which is an easy zig-zag "Z" under other "Z's". The medium comprised on gouache as well as micron. As a result, I fulfilled the assignment requirement which is due tomorrow.