Monday, 20 October 2014

Evaluation of my 'Origins' Mixed Media Journey

When I initially started my first three weeks of mixed media within 'Origins' I was very sceptical and unsure on how to create and expand my 2D mind set into a 3D way of working.
Personally, throughout the first two weeks of my experimenting I didn't enjoy the processes and the 3D way of working. In the third and final week I felt more confident however, in a way this was a shame because I felt that it was too late to complete a number of ideas as I should of thought of them in the beginning weeks.

Friday Drawings were my most productive days of the whole week, I felt that Friday was always the day in which everything was explained, I used Fridays to evaluate my weeks worth of work and I could make a number of lists of what I was going to improve on to develop my experimentation further.  

One of our independent study tasks was to draw 100 line drawings in which we would later manipulate onto Illustrator. I had never worked on Illustrator before however, I pretty much straight away grasped the basics and I quite enjoyed this digital way of drawings. We picked 5 of our line drawings and drew these onto Illustrator, these drawings were later used to create our materialised samples of using the laser machine.


 
Iris Van Herpen is one designer that influenced my work throughout, her continuous fashion collections are full of detailed 3D sculptural designs. Her work and design process is truly amazing, I wanted to experiment and underline how she makes such strong defining shapes within her work.
I began working with paper, plain boring white paper.. At first, I did think "Why have we been told to experiment with A3/A4 paper?" However, I soon got into the hang of things, I was creating shapes and texture I didn't think was possible using such little equipment.

From these 3D paper samples, I used materials and fabrics to develop and extend my knowledge of 3D sampling. I enjoyed working with paper more than I did fabrics because I found it harder for the fabrics to hold together and create the defining shape in which I could quite easily create with paper.


From paper and fabric sampling, I then translated what I had learnt by booking an hour session using the laser machine. As you can see I developed my initial Iris Van Herpen influence and created an engraved, cut out lasered MDF sample.
Personally, I was quite annoyed at how my samples came out with the laser, I had missed the first lasering induction so when it came to my sampling they didn't come out as effective as I had liked. There was only a couple of samples in which I liked from the laser, as some materials I had bought to laser melted under the heat which meant there was no design lasered.

Above is my MDF sample showing an intricate approach to Illustrator and the Laser cutter.
Even though I have not enjoyed Mixed Media as much as I might others, I feel that it was definitely a good idea to experiment with working in this practice and I hope that I can develop my work in the future by incorporating this area of textiles within my practice.

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