Character | Final Designs and Evaluation

[Final Collage designs]

Overall, I'd say this project was definitely my weakest so far, I liked the inital ideas but I feel the time constraint really affected my overall product. I would have liked to produce samples, and perhaps even a garment but unfortunately I could do neither. However, I think the whole idea and design ideas were extremely cohesive with Maddie's promotion project, which was one of my initial aims. 

I was not at all happy with my final designs, I feel they were extremely basic and completely different from how I usually design, which is perhaps why they went so badly. 

I think I had moderate stand work within this project, but if I were to make a final toile, more experimental stand work would be needed, perhaps in a simpler fabric like calico for more shape emphasis. I felt my print work was strong and I liked the colour scheme that came out of the prints. This project was definitely held back by my biggest weakness; time management, and it will be something I will definitely address and massively improve in the FMP. However, I don't feel this project was completely negative and I feel I have made a more successful attempt at each two week project. Minus this last project, I felt each 2 week project was stronger than the one before and I was improving certain skills like quick drawings and stand work. I would have liked to combine my prints into final designs, altering scale and pattern within the simple coat style. Ditto with the unitards and onesies. 

I know I work best when I can get into a topic and focus completely on one thing, so I am sure that the problems I came across in this project will not affect me in my final. I would like to include some promotion work in my final project, photoshoots and lookbooks for example to lift my work and make it more rounded. 

This was the first project since the Industry project that I 'collaborated' with someone on, working with Maddie was really helpful, as she was a week ahead of me, she inspired much of the work I did. As she isn't design, I could have taken this project anyway I wanted, which gave me quite a lot of creative direction. I'm not sure how well I pushed myself on this, and if I were to do the whole project again I would alter the character to produce a slightly more challenging idea. I am definitely not happy with the result of this project, but I feel it has helped me know how to improve and also to push myself to the best I can be. Simply feeling disappointed in the result will force me to not stop at this 'minimal' result I produced.