I have updated my planning to the submission date due to delays in the process caused by illness last week.
Week 3: Further expand the outline and explore designs for use in the final collection. Creation of colour story and colour test. Start choosing fabrics.
Week 4: Plan the collection. Start drawing final illustrations (outlines to be completed). Decide on fabrics to be used.
Week 5: Final illustration completed. Start formatting.
Week 6: Final check of PPD.
This week (Week 3) was very busy. I am very bad at expanding from design to further design. Instead, I am good at creating design clean. It was difficult to find a design I was satisfied with, so I kept drawing and erasing, but I could have a few favourite outlines. As Giles advised, it is difficult to create simple designs. The fewer lines that make up the design, the more important each line is. It is also difficult to make different designs because the designs can be so similar. There is only one thin river between boring and sophisticated.
This is the idea of an outline.
Colour stories and colour tests did not go much better than usual either. I have never studied colour before and have always chosen colours by feel. I believed that my colour choice was my strength. However, I feel that I need to study to be able to think logically about colour selection, colour balance and the relationship between the thickness and thinness of fabrics. After this project, I will have time to learn more about colours professionally.
I have created two different colour stories.
Although the No.1 colour story is more to my liking, I decided to use the No.2 colour story because I wanted to incorporate the artefacts of the atomic bomb victims into the design elements of this project.
This is the colour test. The balance between orange and purple, which are complementary colour relations, is very difficult. I want to be careful not to make the design look like Halloween.