Design Development

At the start of design development we took our original garment drawing and distorted and change them to see what shapes and arrangements we could create on illustrator. I found this challenging as illustrator is a fairly new application that I have learnt however this process and forced me to confront that therefore my knowhow has improved deeply. I learnt how to use the 'liquify' filter that allowed me to manipulate the drawing. I felt inspired when I started applying this to the body and look at how I can change this drawings into different interesting garments.

I then found drawing out this garment ideas and seeing what I could do with them in my sketch book very useful. Cause I could then play around with the idea and the details.

Bodice construction

As I began to start my design development work I learnt how to make a bodice using a mannequin. This improved and developed my knowledge of how to use darts to make fabric fit the natural human silhouette and to create organic curves. Although I have previous knowledge of darting repeating this in a different technique have pushed my knowledge further. However the fabric I used to create the bodice was difficult to make hold the shape. However still this helped me a lot to think more about how i am going to create a garment.