Error | Week Two : Responding to Research
This week I . . . Tried a variety of sketching techniques; experimented in Photoshop; began to explore elements of visual language . . . Focus piece Visual outcome responding to the theme Error : Continuing to explore the error in fashion design that takes size 10 as ‘standard’ and doesn’t accommodate the wide variety in women’s body shapes, I took inspiration from a Louise Bourgeois sculpture encountered at the Whitechapel Gallery . It reminded me of prehistoric sculptures of the female form and my research led me to an amazingly contemporary-feeling Cycladic marble figure held in the Met . I took this as the starting point in my experiments with a range of materials from pencil and charcoal sketches to paint and collage. I further researched ASOS size guides and the Croquis Figure , comparing ‘ideal’ measurements with those of the sculpture. For the outcome piece, I recalled how liberating I found it to work in marker on large-scale. I wanted to create a poster with...