Mixed Media - Week 3 Review.

While in the final week of my mixed media rotation, my attentions have focused mainly on creating samples that illustrate the connection between my ideas and chosen context, 3D/Sculptural Fashion.

Working with a mannequin, i have been able to create a variety of different samples that elevate my ideas and finally illustrate their purpose. After the previous two weeks using paper as my main source of material, it soon came to be a process i favoured and began to excel in. When i finally became to realise the manipulative properties of the paper, i was able to begin exploring and creating interesting curves around the body.  The past three weeks has been one of the first times i have explored the possibilities of fashion, so for me, working on a mannequin and exploring my ideas through a fashion context has been a completely new experience, one I have throughly enjoyed and hope to explore further in the near future.

During our final week we also had the chance to book another laser cutting session, i decided to take this opportunity to experiment with scale and different materials. Using a variety of different leathers i created samples that explored how my design would work when reduced in scale....

Although i enjoyed the properties of the leather, especially the reverse side where the burn marks from the laser had altered the surface, the miniature scale didn't represent the line quality as well as i had expected, due to being so small, when layered together the samples got lost within each other and there was no definition amongst the curves or edges.  If i where to have had more time I would have liked to have created large scale cut outs using the leather, as like with the paper models, i feel that the leather could have been well manipulated and would have begun to introduce new colours and textures to my designs.