Feeling a bit weird.. weird is good!

The feeling of fairytale land stayed has stayed with me ever since I went last Sunday. I've been doodling ideas, with Alice in Wonderland being the biggest theme right now. Everything revolves around time, there's either too much to kill or it's gone in a blink of the eye. It's your biggest enemy... or your best friend?

And this is how I work as a designer:

RAW.

As well as final perfected illustrations, I thought it would be cool to upload one of my primary resources from an old sketch book that I keep next to my bed. I often wake up in the night and have to jot down ideas and also throughout the day. These are two pages I scanned in where I have loosely scribbled ideas, designs, concepts, themes and people as a starting point for my research into my project 'Fashion Re-defined.'

I'm a neat freak with my work, but I'm changing everyday. The goal isn't to be pretty. The goal is to be free.

I find it quite interesting to re-read these scraps of paper because at the time when I thought of a particular idea, I write it down and carry on with my day and sometimes really can't remember it, which sounds weird! Some of the things don't make much sense but it's good to get everything out all the same. Whether I use the idea's now or not, they'll always be there this way.

The concept:

In a bit of a nutshell, for the illustration below, I took the white rabbit as inspiration. The drawing captures a bit of my quirkiness with the hybrid and the heart being worn as a fashion necklace shows courage in showing the world our secret, most deepest desires.

I used pro marker pens, ball point pen, tape and spit....... to smudge!! haha, don't judge.

This work is for my Uni project - Fashion Re-defined. The way I work is on paper. I know typically a designer works on the stand with fabric first, well, not always, but still. I like to use illustration as medium, capturing moods, scenes and characters and then my garment designs come from that. Below is another hybrid which carries themes of sexuality and vulnerability behind a fashionable mask!