Term2 project was a great opportunity to find out my strength and my weakness for me.
First of all, i couldn’t produce the print work which i am happy with because of time. i had to rush at last week and this was the first attempt at printing. i hadn’t used heat press machine and it requires proper temperature and time how long i will press it. Besides, the patent leather i used for the print was unusual material so i had to find myself. i had to consider sufficient time to produce an outcome. However, i made a note of the temperature and time of the heat press machine attempt on my sketchbook so i would look back when i reuse it. if i use a print work again in this project, i will have sufficient time to improve in case the result is not as good as i expected.
i want my outcome to be an my own archive like i made a note rather than just an assignment for school. this term3 project, i will focus on my own study.
+ Once i hung out with my friend who studies architecture, he told me that he is planning to make his essay into a small book so when someone asks about his idea in the future he can show his physical work. i think that is good idea because i have my own world view so each of the work i have done has coherence like keywords or primitive ideas. The thing is its hard to notice for a reader unless i show work in a row. I am building up my own world throughout fashion and i want to show when people ask me about my work someday. i am considering making this project into a handbook after term3.
In feedback, tutors pointed out my final illustration. This was the first time using digital drawing software. One of tutors said that illustratoin looks like cartoon and preferred my hand drawing rather than digital work. i might need to consider about the potential of my hand drawing and painting.
i feel like watercolor is one of elements i will use for the term3 project. i was intrigued with delicate and sensitive brushstrokes of watercolour. This will be something i will challenge myself during term3 because i am bad at painting, especially, watercolour.
In the class, me and my classmates gave feedback to each other. i personally am into unlovely, the keyword of this project, aesthetic so it was interesting to look at others’ ideas. And when i give my ideas to friends most of them were concluded in Freud theory. This reminded me of how important his idea is even though i knew that he has been affecting the art world a lot. i have read the book of him around 3 years ago. However, that was too difficult for me at that time so i read only half and i feel like to know about his study again.
I asked for some advice about my mood boards to the tutor.
The inspiration of work i want to carry out is based on a movie and i am planning to reconstruct the whole story of the film into my own definition. i was told that this is what costume design students do like working with movie and she suggested me to focus on simply an object i am interested in. Also, she pointed out the relationship between Frankenstein and sexual desire, and how i am going to do primary research.
i contemplated the feedback i got from the tutor if it is just an opinion difference or not. This is because once i learnt art under a fashion designer i tended to be arrogant. He was a quite famous desginer in Korea so i used to think that i am the best and i know everything. However, as i meet other art students who are in a different fields such as architecture, and fine art i realized that i had been had a narrow view and thought i should be humble. So when i hear opinions that i don’t agree with, i always think twice if i am being arrogant again. i made a conclusion that i will proceed this theme because i dont think i have to distinguish the borderline of menswear and costume design like i have created my own narrative in term2.
Reinterpreting the film would require times and should make sense when readers look at my work. i will invest time to research my theme that supports my idea for few days.