Create

Plan and Media Experimentation

Plan:

- Doing mouth open

- easier to do

- acrylic because its the one i'm most familiar with

- i've done several sketches of leopards in different forms

Media:

Chalk

Acrylic

Plan: 

Artist Research

Shirl Theis
- most painting include glamour of hollywood, fashion and music industry

Snarling Leopard

Acrylic

Paul Dene Marlor

- paintings including wildlife, flora, still life and sea scopes

Leopard

Watercolour

Debbie LaFrance

Leopard

Oil on canvas

Brainstorm and Inspiration

Inspiration:

- i was practicing my observational drawing through drawing animal stuff toys

- thought I should just do a painting of an animal
- have to be 2D and different from my last project which was 3D
- saw photos of the leopard on tumblr

Ideas:

- mouth open leopard

- full body leopard

- snow leopard

- or wild leopard

Dress - Fasteners

For the dress to be wearable I had to place fasteners that can be removed and put together.

As options I can choose:

I chose to use buttons because it was the easiest option to do. It was the one available unlike the velcro and the zippers which would still need to be purchased from stores. The buttons were already available at home for me to use. 

I just sewed the buttons on and made loops of thread on the other side of the dress where the button can be put. 

Dress - Lining

The dress I have made is transparent and so wouldn't make it wearable. In order to make it wearable, I would have to put a lining inside it to avoid being too revealing.

I chose a plastic that isn't transparent and is in dark colour to assure coverage.  I just cut pieces of the plastic that fit in the skirt and sewed it on.

Top - Masculine

For the masculine part, I chose a dark colour since most men clothing are in dark colours. I chose to place the black and white lines at the edge in a diagonal, because it would make it look more interesting rather than having it go horizontally or vertically.  So it gives it a simple yet interesting design.

I did the top into a tube top because it was the easiest to do and the simplest to do rather than having to create straps for the dress. 

Skirt - Pattern

Pattern

1st Pattern:

2nd Pattern:

Choice:

The pattern I chose was the 2nd one because it goes from dark to light which transitions from the dark colour of the top. 

The first pattern seemed so messy and uncoordinated which is why I didn't choose it. 

Skirt - Design

For the skirt, I added flowers made from the leftover plastic. I decided to make flowers because it's the easiest to do and flowers are a usual print for feminine clothing.

I used double sided tape because it's easier to use.

Then I scrunched it up in the middle to make my flower.

I then cut it to forma circle because leaving it square doesn't make it look like a flower.

I then stick double sided tape on the skirt and stick the flower onto it.

Skirt - Feminine

I sewed all these pieces together to form a skirt. I pleaded the skirt to make it look more like a skirt. If I didn't put pleads on the skirt it would look stiff and straight. I did it from the darkest to lightest colours to transition from the top that's made out of a dark colour. 

Create

I chose plastic as media because using a newspaper would be too dull to represent the 'feminine' part of the dress since it's black and white. And newspapers easy to break, so it will be hard to work with. Also, it's difficult to find something to piece the newspapers together. If you use tape and you make a mistake on putting the tape then it will be hard to take off because the newspaper will be ripped off. And tape will be very visible on the skirt and it won't look good to look at.

I chose to use plastic as my media for my skirt but instead of having bags draping, forming a bubble dress. I decided to cut up the plastic to make it easier to work with because using full bags limits you from making different forms.

To piece the cut up plastic together, I will sew them to each other to keep a stronger bond that will keep the skirt from falling apart. Instead of using tape that will act as glue because tape isn't as strong to keep it together and it will not look pleasant seeing tape stuck onto the plastics.

To sew the plastic together, I'm gonna take two pieces of cut up plastic then put packaging tape on the side to keep the two plastics temporarily together and to keep them straight. I chose packaging tape because it's easier to remove from the plastic. If I use masking tape, the plastic will stick onto the tape and when you remove the tape, the plastic will be ripped. Then, I will sew the plastic together, just like how you would sew normal fabric.

Media Experimentation

Media Experimentation

1. Plastic 

Plastic will be draping or hanging. This will be done in layers to form the skirt

For example:

2. Newspaper

3. Magazines

I have already done using magazines before. 

Magazines are colorful and it has a lot of designs but it would be hard to find several used magazines especially since we don't have a lot of magazines available.

Paper 2 - Design Paper - Artist Research

Artist Research:

Michael Cinco 
- Filipino designer
- worked with Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell and Sofia Vergara
- has an eco couture collection
- eco couture collection was featured in America's Next Top Model

Betsey Johnson 

- american fashion designer

- known for 'feminine and whimsical designs'

- designs are 'over the top' and embellished

Paper 2 - Design Paper

Brainstorm:

Textile:

• Dress
• Skirt and Top

Dress

For textile, I decided to do a dress. A dress because I can use different patterns to make it interesting.

I wanted to do a dress in the theme of classic. An elegant dress made out of fabric, that would look good in special occasions. But I realized I didn't have a sewing machine, and sewing everything by hand would be difficult and it would take a lot of time.

In order to avoid using a sewing machine, and still make a dress, I will make a dress made out of recyclable materials. Recyclable materials such as plastic, garbage bags, cardboard, newspaper, aluminium foil, old magazines and can tops.

I chose to do clothes since I have already tried to make clothing before out of recycled materials.

Inspiration:

Theme: Opposites

I chose the theme opposites because I came across Betsey Johnson, a fashion designer who creates dresses that are very feminine and over the top, which I like. I didn't want the whole dress to be too feminine, so I decided to contrast it with a part of the clothing which is more simple and less feminine.

That's why I chose to do it as feminine vs. masculine

Theme: Seasons

Another dress that I wanted to make from recycled materials is in the theme of seasons. It is a dress made up of recycled materials that all symbolize different seasons (winter, summer, spring, autumn)
For winter, i'll use recycled white paper, which signifies snow. For autumn, i'll use withered leaves which would suggest autumn. For spring, I'll use old magazine cut outs of flower to represent spring. And for summer, i'll use old magazine cutouts of tropical fruits to represent summer

Each season has different kinds of clothing you can wear. Like for summer, you wear colourful clothes, and in spring, you wear more printed clothes. Instead of wearing a certain type of clothing in each season, I just put all the seasons in one dress.


Choice:

The dress i'm going to create is the dress in the theme of opposites. Feminine vs. Masculine because it will be too complicated to look for magazines with photos of tropical fruits and flowers.

The top part of the dress will represent the masculine part. It will be a simple top since most men shirts are simple in a dark colour.

The skirt will represent the feminine part. It will be colorful and bright contrasting the masculine part.