THIS IS DARK MATTER

Saturday, 31 January 2015

BLACK BEAUTY

Check out my board on pintrest - Black Beauty inspration, showing what black beauty is representing and what is inspiring me through portfolio development.

https://uk.pinterest.com/theedarkmatter/black-beauty-inspiration/

KATARZYNA KONIECZKA

Costume design - Katarzyna Konieczka (collar)

Photography, acrylics, ink, photomanipulation - Jarek Kubicki

One of my favourite magazines too look at is Dark Beauty. The magazine itself is about presenting dark glamour and elements of beauty in a non obvious way. One of the images that have spoken to me today is the works of Katarzyna Konieczka. Konieczka has created some interesting pieces like this collar that has the appeal of a corset. They have also create pieces that have a look of suffocating within their design which shows the essence of darkness.

The reason as to why this image has caught my eye is simple due to the combination as to how the photo has been edited. the photographer Jarek Kubicki has used photo-manipulation to an aspect that has made the photograph appear like a painting. Photo-manipulation is something that I personally love doing and loved discovering as there are multiple directions that you could go. Thus leaving the results endless.

The looks of the photo and the design shows emotion that has been captured by the black and white capture and by the empty look of the models face. The nudity in all of it's elements is one thing that i do love about this piece. As the collar has a slight bondagey feel to the look the nudity adds more to the look. And with the models expression slightly innocent it changes the emotion of the image, making it seem as though she is trapped.

I do love finding beautiful creations late at night and dark beauty is definitely one of the best places to snoop at and strongly recommend.

http://www.darkbeautymag.com/

Sunday, 25 January 2015

BLACK BEAUTY

Sunday, 18 January 2015

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

The quality seems to be a bit odd but I can assure you that it doesn't look like this in person.

The illustrations that appear on this board has been scanned into a mac and have been drawn over in illustrator. I decided to keep the sketchy look of the illustrations as they add a personal touch the design. I used the pen tool to create the outline which I then pasted into photoshop. And the same goes for the technical drawings that are placed on the board.

Instead of using block colour to fill in the illustration (giving the idea of what colours of the fabrics would be) I thought it would be more interesting to use fabric swatches to demonstrate the how the designs would look.
This was also useful to the illustrations as there wasn't much detail on the illustrations themselves. The detail was more in the patterns and the textures of fabrics. Cutting out certain parts of the fabric swatches for the illustrations made the board more quirky and more up to date. It also brought out the theme which was based on designed textures and corresponding patterns.

I am currently thinking of going back into my denim project and redoing the boards digitally as the process is a lot faster and the out come appears to be more professional. This would come in hand for portfolios and interviews.