This time I thought I should take the opportunity to show you to some of the work I have done studying fashion design. I'll be going off to university in September to do a degree in fashion design having just finished an intense two-year ND course to start me off along this career path, and I can't WAIT! (most of all, just to move away from home haha)
I got a choice of four directions to take my final project on the ND. The biggest problem with my course was how geared it was to designing womenswear; don't get me wrong, designing dresses is great fun and all that but I do love designing for men, if only for the fact I get to draw dozens and dozens of 'em all wearing cute/sexy outfits haha!! So when I saw the title 'Underwear with Knitted Accessories', I thought I'd 'rebel against the system' by twisting the project round to menswear.
Now I'm sure the obvious direction would be to have done a whole load of guys wearing boxers and scarves, but I wanted to think outside the box, especially for my final project, and do something a bit different. I looked at a whole range of under-garments throughout the last century, garments including long johns, bodystockings, union suits and thermals, as well as sportswear, nightwear and even baby clothes. From this I was inspired to produce a range of quite simple clothing men could lounge about in at home; PJs, T-shirts, dressing gowns, as well as, of course, just plain old underpants - not the sort of fashion you'd necessarily flaunt on a night out (well, I'm sure there's someone out there who would). The primary ideas were comfort and warmth. Colour also became important and I chose to be outrageous and use orange. Who'd've thought it would go from being my most hated colour to my favourite! Blue, white, grey and red were also included in the colour range which ended up kinda giving everything a 'mod' twist.
In the end, the design I chose to make up into an actual garment was that of a cross between a hooded sweater, a jumpsuit and a babygro. I made it out of sweatshirting which I dyed bright orange and put a chunky white zip all the way down the middle - something kinda sexy about a full-length zip! With the inclusion of a dropseat (or what I'd call a 'bum-flap') the whole thing seemed to have shifted from a playful adult version of a child's garment to some fetishistic pervy sex-outfit - something that everything I design seems to end up looking like. Well, at least I have a specialty! I bought some chunky wool and completed the outfit with knitted bootees and weird fingerless armwarmer-mitten-type things.
Obviously my favourite part of the project was doing the fashion illustrations!!! To me, it's just an excuse to come up with some eye-candy, especially when I'm designing menswear. On the course we were always encouraged to push our creativity when it came to illustrations. The method I chose to use was something combining collage, a bit of watercolour, and outlining in red graphic marker. And you know what, I'm damn pleased with 'em!! They took me forever to do. The end result probably could've been done a lot quicker digitally but then there's something kinda nice about the fact they look quite smart and clean despite doing it the 'old-fashioned' way. The time spent was no great hardship considering the content; I can't tell you how turned-on I was doing some of 'em!! *so adolescent* I wanted the guys to look very masculine to kinda contradict the 'kiddie' feel of the clothing and I thought I could be a bit cheeky with some of the poses, after all I think my lecturers were starting to see the whole thing as some dirty joke anyway! I like to think that the message I left for them upon leaving was one kinda like:
Haha!! I can't tell you how proud I am of that ass! I actually did more than these four, but these are my favourites and I want to leave you begging for more haha. (yeah right :P) Hope you enjoy them, anyhow!
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Hey Wabbit...
Wah-HOO!!! What a great surprise to see you now have a Blog! And it's a beauty. Well done on the design my friend. It is very lovely and quite unique! :oD
I LOVE this post. I always knew you were in fashion, but it's so cool to see works you've actually done in your field. I think it is safe to say you have a brilliant career ahead of you! LOL!!! Your illustrations are stunning!
So congrats again, my friend. I look forward to seeing all the wonderful things you'll be posting!
Much love and fun and success,
Patrick XOXOXOXO
Thanks so much Patrick!
The design of my blog took me forever to do, I was finding everything more difficult than I felt it should've been to start up this blog but now its done I feel great about it haha.
And I'm really glad you liked seeing my work in this post, I was unsure if anyone would care as I'm sure most people who would look at my blog would want to see some filth haha. (That's all still to come though of course :P).
So make sure you keep coming back, I hope to make this blog a little gem.
xx
Hey there. Wow-- I had no idea you were such a talent, man! I really like that "babygro" illustration. Congrats on starting up this blog.
When I started school, I was pretty dead-set on going into animation / illustration-- but when some of my teachers saw my women, they coaxed me into taking a few fashion illustration classes. They were really fun-- but (like you) I got tired of drawing women all the time... skinny, flat-chested women at that! LOL!
When I was in those classes, I looked up the fashion illustrator "Antonio" for reference. Your stuff reminds me of his. In such a female-dominated industry, you both depict men as dignified and fashionable as women. kudos!
Hey JC!
I'm so flattered by what you said, it's so nice that people whose work I respect can do the same in return :P
I never really aimed to do fashion in my life, I just knew I loved characters and I loved drawing, but as a matter of fact I dropped out of Art because I found it dull doing stuff I wasn't really interested in creating myself like doing still life or sculpture. And I DO still love drawing women, but it's sooooo much more fun drawing men. All my teachers throughout my whole school life have always commented on how I seem to give my men massive bulges... which don't seem that massive to me but then again, why shouldn't they be?!! Obviously they're just jealous to be tied down to their 'inadequate' partners haha.
And thanks for the comparison to Antonio, some of his stuff is so cool haha.
xx
WOW! I really like you stuff, and you seem like a really interesting guy. I'll be a faithful follower, for sure.
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