New Plan

After coming across Izziyana Suhaimi, I decided that I want my final piece to be an embroidery piece. I am first going to do a fashion shoot and create some interesting images that I could recreate in Stitch Form. 
So, I purposely chose interesting clothes such as a fur gilet, pom pom scarf, leopard print skirt, woolly cardigans etc for my model. The other reason for the fashion Shoot was to show where the Human Form theme comes in. 

Izziyana Suhaimi

Okay, I have just come across an AMAZING ARTIST! and just by accident, her name is Izziyana Suhaimi, I think she is one of my new favourite artists!! 
Here are examples of her work, all credit to her obviously! 
She manages to incorporate embroidery into pencil drawings and watercolour paintings.

Check out her site here! 

Paper/Fabric Collage and Embroidery

This week I played with Paper Collage again but this time used embroidery too. I used my life drawings as a template. I used embroidery thread to outline different shapes. 

To avoid ripping the paper, I made the holes first, by placing a sponge under the paper and piercing it with a needle. 

Paper Collage with Embroidery.

I used Cross Stitch under the breast, Seeding Stitch under the collar bone, a lot of Straight Stitch and a Patchwork Style near the Belly Button. 

I then also tried Paper and Fabric Collage:

Paper and Fabric Collage with Embroidery.

Life Drawing.

Since coming back to college we have been having Life Drawing Classes every Friday, I can definitely see an improvement in my work.
So, I thought I would show you some of my most recent drawings.

Done using Fine Liner. I created tone with the crosshatch technique.

Done using Graphite Stick, and the edge of the stick to create Tone.

Done using Graphite Stick.

Done with Graphite Stick.

I experimented with different mediums and created 3 different versions of the drawing above. For the Ink Drawings I Used 3 different pots of ink, one pure ink, one very watered down, one slightly watered down. My favourite is the Watercolour version, I also had the most fun doing that one. 

Ink, I didn't wait for each layer of ink to dry and used a very wet brush and so got a very watery effect. 

Ink, here I waited for each layer to dry and so got a more bold, line drawing. I prefer this one to the one above. 

Watercolours and Ink.

My watercolour and ink painting is based on the Painting below that I found on Pinterest...

Marie 2, (2010) By Raluca Vulcan.

...it's by an Artist called Raluca Vulcan, you can see more of her works here. 

Paper Illustrations and Kat Macleod

Ok so you guys should definately check out Kat Macleod! She and 2 of her bestfriends, Simone Elder and Chloe Quigley run the Ortolan Graphic Design Studio, in Australia, which they established in 2006. 

Her are some examples of her work... 

I took inspiration from her work and tried to create a illustration in her style. I used the photo below of my sister as a bases. I used fine liner to outline my drawing, watercolours to paint the hair, face and skin and fabric and inky paper (I made by soaking paper with water and dropping different coloured inks on to it) for the clothing and accessories. 

Photo I based Illustration on.

Illustration 1 - Fabric for bow in Hair and Ribbon for Waist. 

Illustrations 2 - Fabric for bust (tied with black cotton in the middle). 

Illustration 1 - Close up.

Illustration 2 - Close up.

New Term, New Project...

So, the theme for this term is also Human Form. But we can choose any media to portray this theme. I want to look at mixing paper with fabrics :) 

Here is my proposal...

One of the most interesting workshops of last term was the assemblage one, I really loved Claire Coles work and so for the next 6 weeks I want to explore paper collage, sewing paper together and embroidery on both paper and fabric. 
One of the Artists I will look at is Kat Macleod, who I came across in the assemblage workshop last term. She creates beautiful fabric and paper collage illustrations of people. My final piece will be a fabric piece. My aim is to use a drawing from the life drawing sessions and recreate it in a patchwork style with paper and fabric. 

Illustration Workshop

This week, it's Illustration but! interactive or movable illustration!

So I chose POP-UP! For the human form aspect, I designed 2 characters based on my parents. The story will be also be based on how they met. 

My inspiration came from the HJ Story... which is the cutest thing I have come across! :) 

“Daily Dosage of Love and Smile…”

HJ Story started as a blog on Tumblr in May 2010. But before that it began with a few photo sms messages that the artist would send to his girlfriend, purely for fun. As he claims “I was never goo with expressing though spoken words…” he then created the blog, which included all the drawings he had done, as a surprise gift for his girlfriend's upcoming birthday. The blog was intended to be personal, but a friend of his posted it on twitter and he started to get followers. He now shares his doodles on Facebook, deviantART and Twitter. 

HJ Story

1 + 1

This Pop-up Book I came across online, also really inspired me. It was made by paper artist Jackie Huang, for a Student, Chris in New York City.  He wanted a special way to propose to his girlfriend, Julia. Chris worked alongside Jackie to create a pop-up book, which included all the important elements of Chris’s and Julia’s relationship. Chris proposed on March 29 2012 and Julia said yes!

Pop-up Book Scene By Jackie Huang.

Pop-up Book Scene By Jackie Huang.

Check out her work... www.jackiehuang.com

My Main Character - Man

My Main Character - Girl.

Here are photos of my finished Pop-Up Book. I used different coloured card, pencil crayons and a bit of glitter. :)

Page 1 - Love at First Sight.
Pop-up Bench & Man.

Close-up.

Page 2 - Engagement/Proposal.
Pop-up Ring.

Close-up of Pop-up Ring.

Close-up.

Page 3 - Wedding.
Pop-up Wedding Cake.

Close-up of Whole Cake.

Close-up.

Close-up.

Page 4 - Honeymoon in Paris.
Pop-up Eiffel Tower.

Close-up of Pop-up.

Close-up.

As you can see the characters change slightly page by page, I did this by tracing the main characters above and altering clothing and hair where needed. 

I created my own pop-ups by working from photos of pop-ups I found online and looking at some tutorials online.