Elizabeth Emery: FASHION: material design sketches

The images below show sketches from designs made from one of my chosen shapes shown above.

Working on the manikin with fabric was about exploration of different weights and how they work with shape and form. The heavy weight fabric held a great solid shape, which worked well for some of my designs, but what i really liked was the contrast of both or a mix of all three different weights, as it gives solidness as well as flow. You can see photos of these designs in the next post.
The sketches below are composed from using the traced out garment design and placing it in different angles and dimensions onto the body or croquis.

With creating my designs i chose to work with two simple fabric design image as you can see below. I chose these because in previous exploration i found that a combination of placing these shapes on different parts of the body, in various directions and in different sizes worked for me. It's the curves and butterfly like shapes i loved as they create a fullness and softness in shape and form whilst also giving the designs an intricate finishing detail.
Really enjoying the project. love the simplicity of creating pieces that the outcome to be so unexpectedly beautiful.