Colour Schemes

Colour Scheme 2

Working with more than one colour scheme has really been a challenge for me, in previous projects sticking to a colour scheme has been something I've struggled with. At the start of the unit I was working with very dark, muted colour schemes and not really stepping out of comfort zone. I created my colour schemes digitally and didn't have any intention of exploring any others. When I started researching for my motifs, especially with the intricate patterns I found that a lot of what I was researching had bright colours and also made the smaller details stand out a lot more than they would with darker colours that might be more similar. 

When I saw the Timorous Beasties sofa and got inspired to start working with inks it opened up a whole new colour palette that featured a lot of bright pinks and oranges. It ended up giving me inspiration for a lot more work and I found myself producing page after page of markings but then when I went into Photoshop I had more work than I knew what to do with because I liked the colours and marks more than any of the work I'd produced previously. 

Colour Scheme 3

By limiting myself at the start of the project I missed potential time to explore these colours more which could of allowed me to create more work. I think the prints I created with colour scheme 2 which featured the pinks and oranges is some of the best work I have produced so far. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed working with colour like I did in my art foundation previously and it really gave me some inspiration that I had lost in previous projects. 

In Unit X I need to remember the importance of colour and what it can do to a project, by finding this new colour scheme it completely turned my work around. If i start to lose inspiration I know I can go back to looking at colour and mark marking and hopefully see the same results I have in this unit.

Initial Drawings

As I had a late start to the year I had to catch up by producing a lot of drawings, I decided to a sketchbook but they were all of a similar size with a similar media such as pens and markers. After I'd had a lot of these I decided I needed something which involved colour and I needed to explore the size of my drawings. I started to create some larger drawings on A1 and start to explore colour. As I wanted the intricate designs, by doing it on A1 paper they are big drawings but when they are in Photoshop or Illustrator you can't necessarily see the size. 

By doing these big drawings it's given me a good idea of how to build up the body of work for the unit which I think I have struggled with previously, all of these techniques give me a lot more to work with. Especially with the bigger drawings you can really chop them up and zoom in a specific area and find different markings and textures within one larger drawing. 

The issue I had with the bigger drawings compared to the smaller ones is that my drawing style tends be to quick and free flowing with no real plan, so with the big drawings I would be working on them for longer so found myself getting bored especially with the more detailed parts. As you can see in the image above there are some parts missing but getting bored with the bigger drawings gave me a reason to explore different textures to fill the bigger spaces. 

Practice

Deciding on my practice has been very difficult, my idea has changed several times for the direction I want to go with. In previous projects I have applied a lot of patterns to t shirts which is the direction I thought I wanted to go in, I started making designs and thinking about what direction I could go in. I struggled to find inspiration and where this could lead within my practice. Interior is something I've always been interested in but never saw it as my practice or potential career. Looking for inspiration, I kept going towards interior more so than fashion. 
Looking back at my projects from last year the one I felt most proud of and that I excelled in the most was the habitats brief, I started off with a lot of line drawings and developed them into prints. These were some of my best prints and my skills have only grown since then so they can be taken even further. After researching these are some micro trends for interior accessories:


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2/REFERENCE TO NATURE
3/GEOMETRIC TILES
4/WARM METALS
5/MIX METALLIC AND METALS
6/SIMPLE REPEATS
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