Tuesday morning.
First thing in the morning to start with my reasearch.Starting place i went to was the Central St Martins Art School on Charing CRoss road.Had my camera in my hand a sketchbook and some coloured pens in case i did any skerches.Why i went to St Martins and on Charing Cross road?When you see the pictures you will see the reason.That building is the building were you can see the real 'fashion victims'.Anything you find in your wardrobe no matter colour you put it on,doing as much combinations as you can.Scarfs,coats or jeckets long t-shirts (this is in fashion now as well as everything else), wearing anything that makes you unique from everyone else either this is a blue coat,a big handbag, wearing lots of layers of clothing etc.Fashion is doing circles each decade is coming back again and again.I believe were now between the mid 70s and 80s(in terms of fashion).After spending quite a long time on Charing Cross road i went to Dover Bookshop which is suggested on the brief to go and have a look.They have an amazing collection of books containing CLIP-ART that is been done using ola techology like typewriters etc.Some books i found interesting are A big book of silhouettes, Fashion Drawings and Illustrations from 'Harpers Bazar'Also a book called T-Shirt 360 that is basically prints on t shirts and looks very interesting,another publication is Paper Doll publications that have a serious of books under the titles of Best Actresses,Glamorous Television Starts,Everyday fashions of the fifties(as pictured in sears catalogues) and so much more..Really in my visual reasearch inspired me so much on what style i want to take my illustrations.From the dover bookshop i bought a small stencil book of bugs:)( i love the silhouttes of bugs)