Monday, 31 January 2011

Illustration #4

Shaun Somerville

Trend Project - Cinematic

We are currently in the making of a Trend/colour project which we will be presenting to people outside of our course.
Our theme is cinematic, the colour trend to me is of warm pastel colours, the trend is perfect for summer and has a vintage effect to it.

For some basic research into Cinematic. We looked at the high street for who was on trend. Topshop did not let us down. we found half of the colours featured on wgsn.
Here are a few of the outfits we put together thinking about the theme.




We also looked at different textured fabrics to represent the theme.


Patterned fabrics are also important in our theme.



Im really looking forward to the outcome of this project as i have a few ideas i want to unleash on my group.

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Illustration #3


Jo scheherazade Last.

Ox Heart













Here are a few of the photos i used in my last project to do with the human form and textures of the inner body.
I also was inspired by the work of Jana sterbak for this project and decided that i would have to work or play around with different meat to understand why she uses such unusual materials for her work and why for.
It's a long story, but i dissected an ox heart which we had frozen in the garage.

Size wise it was about an inch bigger than an A4 piece of paper.
The colours and textures of the organ really stood out to me, i took pictures of it when it was frozen and then when it had defrosted.

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Tim Burton in wonderland


I have always been inspired by the work of tim burton since i was little.
The hidden depth to his films and his eerie noticeable style.


I recently watched Alice in wonderland again, and found myself inspired by the amazingly detailed outfits used in the film.
During the film Alice's garments change due to her changing size various times.
This involves changed to the garments style but keeping the same materials.

Here are a few of the outfits featured in the film.


One of my favourite garments is when alice is befriended by the queen and she recieves this dress.



These outfits are the work of colleen atwood.

Her work is featured in most of tim burtons films, obviously a trustworthy friend of his.
Both Burton and Atwood have a similar eerie, gothic look.
She has worked on such films as sweeney todd, a series of unfortunate events, nine, sleepy hollow, edward sissorhands, planet of the apes,. the list goes on.

Unknowingly i am a massive fan of her work.

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Illustration #1

Skeleton.

this drawing came from a project on the human body, i used this to then create garments on top of it.