Working over templates

 These weeks' lessons we began to practise on how to create maquettes and how to explore them further. Personally I had a really hard time with these tasks and exercises as I am very stiff with my hand and I jinx my work when everything is working great. These past lessons were hard as I tried my best to elaborate with lines to create specific maquettes based on specific pictures which we were given. Drawing clothes on maquettes is something I enjoy but creating them is one of my worst nightmares.

Below was one of the first tasks we had which we had to create a pose based off 9 lines. It did not go as planned and I stopped halfway as it was not proportional. 

As you can see it is extremely wrong, from the hands to the waist to the legs. I then tried to work off grid without lines to identify my problem.

At this point the problem clearly was the proportion but also the shapes of the body parts so I decided to let my hand move freely and divided the A4 piece of paper into two pieces so the first piece of paper would be the female poses given to us and the second piece of paper the male poses.

As predicted they were not great as there is something wrong but at least the second pose is better and my hand moved a bit more. It is not my best work but at least I tried for it being the first time drawing maquettes. 

The male all look like American football players but at least in my opinion I achieved a male figure.. Nonetheless in these poses my hand just created lines in which I saw the hand and legs and tried to connect them. 

These maquettes are a bit more proportional than the first but they are not great.

I then took tracing paper in order to elaborate my work further and create some designs with these poses. In my opinion the female maquettes were not as bad when tracing as, as you can see from the results below they are a bit better. The element of the designs shown below was toss the floss which I will incorporate in my collection hence I wanted to see different ways of including it in sketches.

For the last task I finally identified my problem. Drawing side profiles and certain parts of the body alone is not my problem, my problem is combining all body parts together to create a figure. In addition, drawing clothes is fun for me as you can practise with different mediums such as markers and watercolours which are my favourite mediums to use. I then decided to draw the upper body in an abstract form and then place more emphasis on the garment itself as that is the main focus, the clothing. The dresses shown below are prom dresses all based on princess themes. I personally wanted to draw princess prom dresses as prom is near and I wanted to take a shot at them. I am extremely happy with the results shown below as I feel confident to show my pieces rather than those indicated above which do not represent me nor my work. 

Personally I love both abstract and normal fashion as they both allow you to present your design in whichever way you like. I personally liked these tasks as I urged myself to identify my problem and try to find a solution. In addition outside the lines is a way that allows you to open your horizons and find other ways in which your work can be manipulated into something better.