Board Now...

And it isn't the board you are thinking! Goodness me, who could ever be 'board' when it comes to fashion!!! No, Board now simply means I have done my illustration and design boards and it's now time to blog about them. See what I did there...

I was really unsure as to what Illustration and Design Boards actually were, but after conversing with a few fellow students and using my initiative they are as follows.

My Illustration boards are quite simple, Front Back and Side views of my final garment and how I would style it. I really enjoy working with fine liner and water colours which is the media I have used for them. My
figures are heavily inspired by work by Tim Burton, James Jean and Laura Laine. There are naturally a few things I would certainly improve and work on from doing this board, for example, even though I prefer my illustrations to look unusual and quite Quirky/Gothic I think my Side View of my final garment is a little TOO quirky... SO practising a little more on figure drawing is certainly on my to do list for the summer. Otherwise, personally I'm quite proud of it all. 

 The Design Board is a lot more in detail (it still needs my fabric swatches and a couple more close up detailing completing) but instead of using water colour I stuck to fine liner which I washed over with water in some areas. I stuck to using fine liner as it was easier to show differences in the tartan for example and a more detailed look at the hand made pattern of the fabric and different shades and colours of the fabric even though in black and white. This one took the most time out of the two of them but I think it was definitely worth the effort.

What do you think?