Digital Life Drawing

These are a series of digital illustrations I have completed during life drawing classes I took park in during my art foundation year!


These 3 images had to be completed within 15 minutes (as he then changed position) an be draw in a style of an artist, for whom I chose Jason Thielke, a brilliant modern artist with a unique style!

Hope you Like!

Illustration: Unit 3

Moodboards:

This was an introductory brief to moodboards, however it did not co-inside with what tutors had taught me about moodboards, so I have just done a quick example of how my moodboards have developed.

I only ever use a maximum of 5 images, as they tend to be placed in a bold format so an overdose of images can look unappealing and messy.
When designing a moodboard, I often use pinterest to browse for images, I suppose they then become 'personal' moodboards, I then select a couple of images to form these 'professional' boards.

Click here to see some of my pinterest boards!

Can you guess the theme to this board?

Illustration: Unit 2

This project was investigating how architecture could influence design. 

Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, I haven't had the time or resources to fulfill this brief properly! 

Therefore I have tweaked the brief slightly and created a series of digital illustrations (...oops) based on pictures I took of Blackpool Pleasure Beach (and passing it of as roller-coaster architectural engineering?) for a previous university project.

'Fairground Inspired Fashion Illustration'

Let me know what you think!

Hannah x

Fashion Drawing Course

As I have mentioned in a previous post, over summer I am following the 'Fashion Design Drawing Course' by Caroline Tatham & Julian Seaman to improve my confidence and skills in Illustration.

The book has 24 units (each a breif or a project) to complete, spread over 4 chapters:
Finding Inspiration
Illustrating Fashion
Planning and Designing
Communicating your Vision

Unit 1: Visiting a museum

In this first unit, I had to visit a museum and spend a day looking around all the exhibitions making quick sketches, to then pick one theme to use as an inspiration to form a small collection.
I visited The World Museum in Liverpool and decided on The Bug House, using the grasshopper as my main design source.

So here's a selection of pieces from my sketchbook!
(p.s: The images haven't scanned as well as I thought and some of my favorite pieces aren't even visable! I will keep this in mind when working on the other projects!)

Sketch taken at the museum

Experimenting with media

Garment ideas

trying to find 'the facce'

The Final Designs!

Androdomes

Concept Board

Having had a flick through my Portfolio from the past year, there are a few pieces that really stand out to me. In this blog I am sharing some of my work from one of my university projects, where we had to design an outfit out of recycled garments, based on a theme generated from a title we picked out of a hat.

The title was Domestic, and after research and other such boring things my mind somehow conjured up a theme I called AndroDomes (androgyny/domestic), based on the ideology that being androgynous, or crossing dress and other related issues 'break' the domestic norm and can cause fear, rejection and abuse from others.

I wanted to develop and design a garment which was androgynous, yet showed elements of protection from the possibility of facing abuse. Protection for being yourself.

Hope you enjoy looking!


Hannah x

Concept Board

Theme Board

Colour Board

Final Design

Back View
Photography: Andrew Meredith

Front View
Photography: Andrew Meredith

huh? I'm setting up a blog?

After months of deliberation, weeks of procrastination (...I mean preparation) D-Day is finally here...

... I have launched a blog! :O

With writing not being one of my strong points, or being blessed with any skill of expressing myself for that matter, also considering my lack in social media presence (apart from facebook, used primarily for candy crush purposes) I have decided it could only be beneficial to branch out into the world of tinterweb communication.

So in an exciting turn of events I have thrown myself into the deep end and set up a twitter account, as well as launching my blog!

I should warn you that this could possibly turn out to be one of the worst twitter profiles to be created, to find out, follow @HannahBascombex

If you are still reading this, it means I haven't put you off with my top notch promotional skill set. For that you should be congratulated, and for your reward, I shall unveil some of the ideas and content I plan on publishing through this blog!

- I have recently obtained shed loads of fabrics, pattern pieces and other componements to add to the other shed full. I was then faced with the parents sudden wrath of the dreaded 'clear out'. This hindrance somehow sparked the idea to modernise some of the patterns, make them up, and sell them, along with other textile and jewellery pieces! (wearmeoutx, makes more sense now?) So I can get rid of some of the fabrics and exercising what I have learnt at uni this year! Let us hope it all goes to plan!

- I feel my drawing/illustration skills aren't up to scratch, so I am following a book course titled 'Fashion Design Drawing Course' by Caroline Tatham and Julian Seaman in an attempt to improve my confidence and skills. I am aiming to upload some of my 'achievements' each week for some honest and critical feedback!

- Then as with any other blog I will use my corner of the internet to expose my own thoughts and opinions as well as a few updates on what's happening in my life!

Stay Tuned!

Hannah x