CCAD Textiles Final Degree Show

Here are a few images from my fianl degree show at CCAD. I'm a little sad that my course has come to end but also extremely relieved that it is all over... I hope you enjoy what you see and please feel free to comment xxxx ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT @ STEPHANIE QUINN

Male Fashion...

For my second project I decided to attempt to design t-shirts for men. my theme was really all about everyday objects which were related to men.

These are a few of my drawings from this project. Most of my drawings are line drawings or quick sketches using different techniques such as blind or continuous line. This is because I am not a very confident drawer and feel happier using these techniques. For the colour scheme i wanted to go quite retro and I think with the colours and drawings together I have achieved this.

This was my first t-shirt design which went completely wrong :( I stupidly exposed my screen the wrong way round and my text printed backwards. for this design i was trying to create a modern placement print and from my research i found a lot of men's t-shirts had slogans and text on them. From the moment i started this t-shirt i didnt like it but i carried on regardless... printing and then stitching into it using hand and machine embroidery.

This is another design which i dont really like lol i was trying to create a modern t-shirt with a retro feel but i think the colours turned out a bit bright. The sauce bottle still gives a little retroness to it but i dont think it works as well as it should lol. I took big inspiration from Andy Warhol for this deign. I also machine stitched around some of the boxes to give a patchwork effect and used free hand machine embroidery within the design. A few disasters within this project so far lol.

This i think is my most successful design from this project. I love the bright colours against the black background and i think that it is quite a quirky design. The motif is taken from my drawing of the wires from a male shaver which i have repeated and screen printed down the sides of the t-shirt. I have also added foils and hand embroidery (satin stitch) in certain areas. I am really happy with this design and i think that it could be quite commercial.

Hope you like this project and feel free to comment good or bad... or even suggestions for improvements. xxx

All Images Copyright @ Stephanie Quinn

Roma Interior Surface Design

drawing

My first project this year was to create a design for an Interiors Furnishing Fabric. I decided to choose the theme Roma and I started to mainly draw skulls and roses using different techniques and media. When drawing I tend to use blind drawings and continuous line drawings as I am not 100% confident with my drawing skills. I also sometimes prefer the way the quick, loose styles look. In these drawings I have used a lot of watercolour and Acrylic paint for the striped backgrounds.

This is my final design for my furninishing fabric. I have took the drawing of my skull and repeated it all over in circles and painted it with watercolours. Even though this design took me about a week to complete I am extremely happy with it. I think it works well and is one of my most sucessful designs.

This is my first fabric sample which I have tried to match up with my paper design. This was alot easier said than done!! For this screen print I used pigment inks and foils. Although I do like it, I think that the paper design is far better and looks more sophisticated!

This is my sampling of variations of my final design. This was the very first time I had used ordinary and illuminating discharge and I am rather pleased with the results. The skulls are printed using plain discharge and the roses are printed with a yellow illuminating discharge and printed onto black cotton. I think my design looks quite scary in these colours but I do enjoy it.

 For this third Print I decided to try out flocking which was very messy! The skulls I have printed using flocking glue and then added grey flock over the top. I have also used gold mettalic ink and pigment inks printed onto a hand dyed fabric. I am not really happy with this sample as the metallic binder blocked my screen which made my print turn out uneven :-( The flock was also messier than i thought and didn't give as much detail in the skulls as I would have liked it to.

Ooooo I was really suprised at how much I like this print. It reminds me of a tattoo design a little. I used pigment inks and gold metallic and printed onto a black cotton. I think this is my favourite :-)

This is my final collection mounted onto boards. Overall I am really happy with my design but I still prefer it as a paper design rather than printed fabric. Please feel free to comment your thoughts or suggestions :-) xx

All Images Copyright @ Stephanie Quinn