Illustrations

I began drawing illustrations for a few of Umit Benan looks from his latest collection for A/W15. I really enjoyed doing them. I was thinking about scanning them into my computer and making layouts or something interesting with them. I also was thinking of maybe turning them into a little gif like I did with the original photos. I talked with one of the tutors about my idea and showed her my illustrations and she suggested that I stop illustrating and begin to experiment with laying them out and begin using the historical images I collected that relate to the collection. She gave me some suggestions of where to begin and it was very helpful. It gave me the incentive to move on to the next step and really begin thinking as I was moderately clueless of how I was going to take this project further and move on from just drawing. 

I was trying to think of ways to merge the historical and reference images with my illustrations and with the actual images of the looks. I decided to go to the photocopier and make copies of the illustrations and lay them out in different ways. I then had the idea to print the illustrations on tracing paper so that I could put the historical images in the background and they would show through. I scanned the tracing paper images with the historical images on top and the results were actually really cool and I am really excited about them. I am going to try laying them out in a few different ways seeing what looks good. 

(Image authors own)