I learnt which way of presenting development best fit my style of work, and this was proven to be successful as a majority of my peer feedback suggested this to be my strongest aspect in the project. I also thought more about the importance of double pages in presentation, as this was the first time we presented our sketchbook and final garment to the class. With presenting the garment itself, the tight space of the classroom forced me to thoroughly think about efficient presentation in terms of having nothing cramped and aesthetically fluid to look at. the techniques that i think worked best for me in this project was drawing on top of printed photos to emphasise structure that i wanted to reflect, and then drawing next to these photographs in similar styles helped me to easily show development of shape.

I noticed the huge variety of ways in which people used their specific pieces and components in the most innovative way, and that made me think how and why they made such choices. It encouraged to get a more interesting jacket/object if I did the whole project again, because I felt like my peers had more interesting pieces to work with.

I would spend more time in collecting materials for the project, with deeper thought into what range of emotions I can express with each one, and how they would all combine together, particularly focusing on colour and texture.

My peers feedback:

• Use more colour blocking of tape

I used bright red tape in some visuals of my sketchbook, only to display photos. I agree with the comment as I could have incorporated such a striking colour into other aspects of my work to tie everything together, and emphasise more fluidity.

• Drawing between orange and black was good

I spent a lot of time on drawing with contrast between my most frequently used colours. I found that strong white lines and more detailed/expressive fine black lines worked best to compliment the colour blocking of orange and black.

• Amazing use of colour and it’s expressive. Could use more colours in garment

I would have liked to use more colours and textures with my garment, but I felt like the garment I was starting with limited the ways in that I could have done this.

• Great outlining on photos, more textiles?

I definitely need to work on time management with such a short time span of a project, as I didn’t make sufficient samples. However, beginning with draping was something I was really not familiar with, and it was difficult to generate ideas from draping to textiles.

• Process is really complete, shows development of silhouette, add some annotation

I felt my development was clear for the amount of time that I did it in, however I never had a clear image in my head on what type of silhouette I wanted, so this comment was a nice surprise. I agree with the aspect of annotation, however I don’t usually feel comfortable doing this until I am completely in depth with the work, which I struggle to do with such short projects, but I definitely am working on it.

I really enjoyed the observational drawing as it allowed me to loosen up with my drawing, which is what I find particularly difficult. I prefer the fluid nature to  my drawings, as it depicts a more accurate visual image of what is actually in front of you. However, I find it difficult to stop staring at my page, instead of what I’m drawing. I think this is because of my habit of trying to draw hyper-realistically, afraid that the end result won’t match up with what is in front of me. The variety of techniques that we were told to use were helpful in the sense that I realised that they weren’t meant to portray an accurate visual image, and instead we were just being encouraged to focus on particular aspects of the object. I found that I could play around with size as well, which I wasn’t very confident in previously. I think I was comfortable to do this as we were drawing irregular and scrunched up jackets, where you could reshape and resize any portion of it, and it would still express the identity of the jacket.

The first thing you see about the jacket is its colour, mine was solid black. On one hand this instantly conveyed a strong sense of seriousness, and surprisingly on the other hand it felt submissive in a way, as the colour black can be worn and styled with anything. However, disregarding the colour, this jacket didn’t convey a submissive mood. The tailored structure and half sports-wear/half formal type material reflected its utilitarian function of being some type of basic but casual garment, for a very strict and limited style of fashion.

I found the lack of lapel collars most interesting, the neckline forming a turtleneck when zipped all the way. This is because at first glance one would assume the jacket to be some sort of short and fitted formal blazer, but a closer look at the strange mix of material and components such as the zip and upright collars, a different mood is spoken.