1.2.3 Mapping My Journey.

I wanted to a lot more with mapping my location and creating my own pattern, but in a way that it was unknown to me how it would turn out until I go to my computer.
With the first few patterns I made and was playing round with were just things I liked and capturing interests. I was quite unsure how to keep going with this.
I travel over 100 miles a day to uni and back, along the coast up into Manchester and I wanted to use it to my advantage, collecting my own travel data. I played round with taking photos at each of the train stations I stopped at, the journey from the train station to uni. Finding surfaces from the train stain to uni to do rubbings on to collect what I saw and pinning down the stops that I did, not really knowing how or what it would all turn out like in the end.
Taking what I had come out with to my laptop and coming out with the pins that created my own little pattern.
I want to take this further, Making my own collection of patterns, Going to the coast where the train I get runs along, then maybe to the other spectrum of the journey and do the same in Llandudno. See what I can come up with over all.

1.2.2 Through my Eyes.

I took the photos I took in the 'mapping and measuring' task, and there wasn't much I could do with them when I was home, I could remember what part of which I looked at first. So I decided to take another approach to this. On my phone it tracks where on the map I take my photos, so I thought I should use this to my advantage,  working on the patterns of the pins and adding, flipping, rotating and grouping the pins together creating different kinds of patterns.
I included my route from my home to the place I took the pictures and the even the floor plan to add interest and difference to some of the patterns. I really want to evolve this idea going out and creating my own pins on purpose to see what I get and bringing something more to it.

1.2.1 Beginnings of Ideas

For research I took myself to a couple museums, one of them being The Museum of Science and Industry in manchester, Which I found really interesting with old fashioned machines and from that, I in my drawings I added detail to what I spent most time looking at, I particularly liked the more patterned and detailed machines.
Also I visited the Manchester City Art Museum, Which at the time had the Grayson Perry Exhibition up, and with not actually seeing his work before, I rather enjoyed, I spent more time on drawing the patterns in his work and the smaller finer details, like back ground flowers or the pattern of the clothing he had chosen. I found his work to be really detailed. I think I am starting to gather quite a good theme and beginning to my sketchbook for the next world.

1.1.8 Discussions

After the discussions I had with the girls form the other Textile Worlds and seeing their work and the outcome of what they did I feel Like I have chosen the right 2 worlds to go into, I feel like now they are definitely the right worlds for me and i feel like that has proved it for me.

Another point that come across my mind is that, I felt like I had a lot more and developed my sketch book and ideas a lot more than any other the other girls and it showed in our marks, and it makes me feel like I am doing the right thing, going at the right pace and its showing in my marks at the end.  Obviously it something I want to keep on improving, to get better and raise the bar for myself in developing, producing and time keeping.
I know from a few of the girls said that they didn't use there studio time well and rushed and struggled in at the end and its something they know they don't want to be doing next time, I feel like it I get on top of everything I want to be doing at home and in uni using my studio time well I will never get in that predicament.
Over all It made me feel how I had been working in the last unit was reasonably well compare to the others. I wasn't as stressed and I got my work done. So more or less of the same in the next unit I hopefully.

1.1.7 Evaluation of Origins Unit.

Through out the unit I found developing my work difficult at the start, but I knew I needed to find my theme running through my research which I figured was mainly pattern I was looking at. Once I established this, then the connection between practise and my research started developing my ideas and moving further. 

Selecting drawings I did in the first 2 weeks because of the colour pallet, then having a play with the repeating of the image making pattern. I started to find outcomes I liked and wanted to work with. 

I feel like I do use my time wisely and precision plan is key to this, knowing what I need to produce in the day in the studio but with it being a reasonable amount to achieve and being manageable, helped me a lot with getting samples made on the loom or knitting machine and getting things done progressively. 

Learning that studio time is precious and any chance to be in and working is time well spent and best chance of getting my idea further along and progressing. 

My contextual references influenced me and my work a lot, to make my samples more interesting and 3d. Bringing something more to the sample, other than something flat and 2d, making structure of it. 

I feel like I am managing time wisely, using my time commuting on the train to note make or even task lists for the night ahead or the day after, so I am ready to get cracking when it comes round. Making sure I am in 5 days a week making the most of the facilities, using the macs  or studio space or on a knitting machine or loom, so I am always moving on and developing. Using the constructive criticism and working on it. 

I feel like i have been using lateral thinking when it comes to translating my ideas from the pages of my sketchbook and creating sample pieces, having a strong connection between them both. Taking the idea and creating it in a sample. 

1.1.6 Combining the Two.

Combining my friday drawing into my origins project, I wanted to bring this one in particular together with my origins work because it was based on mark making and with out mark making and finding the pattern I feel like there is no design to be made.
I played a lot round with taking pictures of my drawing and layering it up with one of my designs, and I find the outcome to be quite effective, Bring more interest and dimension to the photo.

1.1.5 Johan Ku.

Johan Ku

Good old Google search brought me to a knit wear designer, Johan Ku. Looking through some of his pieces, I just couldn't figure what was coming and going, the complication of knit and how its all held together, and just the question of 'how is that done?'

Especially with the top photo, it looks like the wool has started to wear apart or has been torn and doesn't really know what to do, so she's worn it in a way that it still covers her all up, but yet is still a full wearable piece. 

The second photo is more sophisicated pieces, with some of them being rather classy or damn confusing cables. Really do find his work interesting and confusing.

This is something I want to bring to my Knit unit, I really love the idea of the confusion behind the piece, to make the viewer think 'How'? The mystery behind the piece, He's definitely somebody that I want to relate back to.

*photos from his website Johan Ku.

1.1.4 Bringing the Idea to Life.

Bring the idea the colours and the pattern to life taking what I have drawn out and taking it to the knitting machine. Having an advantage on a few other and knowing a lot more on the Knitting machine before starting uni, I had made my samples before the rest, so I spoke to the student teacher who gave me a few ideas about taking my ideas and actually trying to bringing them into some sort of Final piece, for myself to see what resemblance I come get from it and how I could recreate it. 

With the first one I really enjoyed the idea of designing what would look best where and how what technique would be the bests to recreate another part of it. Cant wait to carry on. 

1.1.3 Layering

One of my friend introduced me to an app on my iPhone called 'Coowl' Which allows me to layer my photos on top of each other, and see the effect of both. 

So with this I went away and experimented with my photos and drawings too see what I could come out with, I took 1 of my drawing and 1 of my photos of my weave and layered them on top of each other to see the effect. 

With the first to come I thought that it could help with designing what I wanted to do on my weave pieces, what colours and in what kind of proportion they could be in on a Honey Comb weave. 

With the second one I took a page from my sketch book and a picture of my weave, and layered them on top of each other, this helped to see what could suit the pattern I used with colours and proportions I had chosen. 

I think the App is a good way of experimenting and exploring with my own work to see what kind of outcome I could get with different colour combinations, patterns and proportions. Something I think is going to be very useful. 

1.1.2 Repetition

After the group discussion and with my lecturer advice I took my drawings to the computer and scanned them in. Taking a drawing I had the idea to repeat and see if it helped in any way for things such as colour proportion, Yarn textures and my section of colours. 

I think the last one I messed around with really brought the whole process together and opened up my ideas. Seeing how when the image is squashed it is easy to pull out the colours and determine the proportions in which they should be. 

Something I am definitely going to apply to some of my other images and see where else editing them will take me. 

1.1.1 Colour Proportion

Choosing a colour palette, I find myself gravitating more towards neutral grey tone colours, Yes they maybe different shades of greys from light blues to the dark spectrum, I really want to find the pop of colour to bring out interest in my work. 

Finding the right colour proportion to set out and have each colour stand out in its own way. 

The idea of repetition in my proportions and pattern in my weave is something I really would like to do,  But with some sort of twist. For now, finding the right selection of colours is still pending. 

1.1.0 Experimental Drawing

This was picked because of how well I feel the colours work together and compliment each other, from  dark to the lightest colour. I feel that it has texture to the plain newspaper page and change the whole picture. 

I improve on this by making it deeper and darker in colour, creating more colour and shape to the drawing.

The simplicity of this drawing is what stood out most to me, that they are not just lines they form the image really well. That it looks so messy but within it all you can still see what it forms as a drawing.

If I was to build on this drawing I would to have a bigger range of felts and markers to bring to picture to life more and shadow.

The textures of the different medias I used in this drawing I find most interesting, that they all bring there own feature to the picture as a whole, down to every detail of the oil bar and pencil creating details in the bars. To the mix match background it is drawn upon. 

I would love to add with more different medias such as stitch, creating more texture and depth to drawing. 

This was a favourite technique that a was recently taught, just the simple pencil on black card creating something so effective and different. I cant wait to try this out with a reoccurring pattern and see what kind of effect I would get out of that.

I really love the black and white contrast working with black ink and white paper. Making the drawing sharper. 

If I were to change the drawing I would add shading and shadows, maybe with 4b or 5b, or even go back in with inks, black, grey and white, still keeping it neutral but adding interest. 

This last one was the most challenging to draw, but I liked the fact I had to change and think about what type of pencil I needed to use and for what section. 

I would really love to add ink and bero to the darker places, building on the shading adding depth and more sharpness to the drawing.