Details Project: Day 9

I have quite a lot of designs now that I could use to put together a collection so on Wednesday I decided to focus on colour and pattern. I did some research on Henri Matisse and found one of his cut outs that I particularly liked. Using some of the shapes I drew a very simple repeat pattern. Unfortunately, I didn't have my laptop with me and there were no more left in the CLR so I had to hand draw the pattern. I played with colour combinations and then drew some sketches of how this pattern could be placed onto a garment. I changed the placement of the print and how much or little could be used Unfortunately, I don't think this was very successful mainly because I didn't have a laptop. If I'd been able to do this on photoshop I could've have made the print more interesting, played with size more and tried more colour combinations which would have made the process much more successful. However I did draw some interesting designs but unfortunately I was thinking about the print too much instead of the details so I don't think they will be very useful.

The night before I did some more research on folk clothing and I really love some of the details in the images so I went through them, picked out the details and designed some more garments. 

At this point I felt that I had drawn enough designs to build a collection so I went through my whole book and drew a pink dot next to every design that I liked. I made the decisions based on my first instincts on whether or not I thought the design was good enough and how well it related to the brief because if I thought too much about it too much I would keep changing my mind. Next I drew the tops, bottoms, coats and dresses all on separate sheets and started to put the outfits together. I wanted colour to be very important but I haven't designed clothes with this many bright colours in such a large quantity so I drew each outfit about 4/5 times changing the colour combinations each time. I asked some of my friends opinions on which they thought worked best. They all had fairly similar opinions and this helped me a lot to decide which colours to use. I think this was successful because I could see how each outfit could completely change just by the different colours I used and in what quantity. It definitely helped me when decided on what my final line-up would be.