Further Development

 For the final design I've decided to go for a sleeveless play suit. Here I've experimented with the placement of the embroidery. I've also experimented on another page with different fastenings, deciding whether to use all buttons, button and a zip or a zip. In the end I decided to use buttons and a zip to separate the bottom form the top.

The next image displays the final design as a flat as well as a close up of the design of the flowers for the embroidery that I will be using, which will be done by a machine for a better effect.

The denim I'm going for will be a dark navy blue, but doesn't need to be stretchy for the adjustment that will be placed at the back.

Design Development for final idea

My final design is a play suit.

Here I've experimented with adding sleeves, collars, bootcuts and darts. With the development I then moved on to designing an adjustment tot he back for flexibility, because it is made out of denim it may be hard to move around in. If I wanted to to make a design evolving sleeves than an adjust to the back would be need.

The adjustments I've designs are both elastic, one being obvious and the other being hidden underneath more denim, giving a cleaner look.
Either of the two would be useful to the garment.

Development of designs

I do apologies for the bad quality of the image.

This displays what I've managed to develop, with my mood boards I've taken the embroidery and used them as key detail in my designs. I've used the embroidery in different areas of the designs, around the pocket, on the bottom of the garment and around the waist.

I've also drew a close up on the areas where detail would be placed, both pencil and in colour. The embroidery shown is made up of flowers, I used pink carnations and heather ling. I also tried using pink swirls for the back ground but the ended up coming out like the cancer ribbon which isn't what I wanted. 

So when designing further for my final idea I would loose the pink swirl and just use scattered flowers instead.

Denim boards

These two boards are my WGSN boards.

In the first board It focus' on embroidery and patchwork. When I first looked at the board once the images had been place I was more interested in the embroidery than the patchwork. However the style and cut of some of the designs with the patchwork I could work with in my designs.

The second board shows more on what silhouettes I'm interested in and what I may want to work with. I've chosen between dresses, high waisted jeans and play suits, the reason for this is because they would be fun designing embroidery into the silhouettes.

The designs I've are slightly similar with my own style. My customer is a 36 year old woman, art collector and seller who travels a lot. She has many experiences and skills, she's also an independent woman. With my designs I've tried to capture this, which I will show in my next post.

Denim Project

My denim project is all based around well, denim.

But there's more to it!

With this project I have to consider designing for a client, creating a theme based on the clients lifestyle and personality and then cooperating 'ladies in pink scarves charity' and 'Maggie's'. Because the project is also based around the charities I'm able to include pink with the denim.

The two charities are both about cancer awareness, support, centres and the patient's.

If any are needing support of any of the two above I do suggest them, they offer so much help and support as well as making you feel at home.

https://www.maggiescentres.org/

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/breast-cancer-patients-launch-new-1460021

Lindsey Thornburg

http://lindseythornburg.tumblr.com/
http://www.lindseythornburg.com/index.html

Final pt 2

To view on larger scale, click on image ^^^^

With this final, just like the other one i used my own drawing and used the same tool but this time i used the pen tool to outline her body, i also scanned my drawing into the computer. To make her body symmetrical i completed one side of her body, copied and paste the image drawn and reflected to the other side. 

Again i made this image slightly sketchy but still making her shape visible in the drawing.

This illustration came out well and goes well with what i had done with the first illustration. I did however draw another one that i was going to use but the out come didn't pair well with my other drawing, it was messy and quite child like so i decided against it.

I should be posting more or make time for posting, been jammed packed with work so hopefully i should be back to my one/ two posts per week.