I have been playing around with pleats, tucks, and gathers as mentioned before, but found that I have been creating myself more work as I will most likely repeat these techniques on fabric again which have my designs printed on them. Therefore, the last few weeks I have been playing around with different design idea's.
The designs in my previous post were quite static and considering my theme is on movement I had hoped to make them a little more fluid. A whole sketchbook later, and the drawings I had created still weren't working well as a design once used in Photoshop. Therefore, following this I have decided to take a whole new approach to my drawing work.
The first approach I experimented with was dragging fabric through paint to capture the movement onto the materials. I then scanned these into Photoshop and below are some examples.
Although these designs are a little less static than the ones I began with, they're still not as fluid and 'lose' as I had hoped.
Another approach I tried in my drawing processes was dip and drip. This allowed the paint to find its own path on the paper...
Still not happy with the outcome, I decided a third and final approach. This was to experiment with Marbling, something I had done a realllly long time ago. This has worked perfectly! There is as little input as there could be from myself, meaning the outcomes are not controlled at all, however this does have its negatives. This means that the same design can not be created again easily.
Some of the designs worked better than others, but I liked the unexpectedness of the whole process! Next, to devlope these, I am going to scan them into Photoshop and play around with erasing the sections that I don't like, for example some have splotches on them, and they'd look better without them.
On from this, I am going to experiment with using these marbled prints for pleating, and gathering etc, and see what results I get!
Lastly, I took a few pictures of the prints drying on the line, and some of them look good! Some really capture the organic movement I have been aiming for all along!
