26th April
I have had a tutorial with Rebecca Pride my tutor today to dicuss my ongoing ideas for the show. She liked the sound of mine and Kalinas concept and also thought my ideas of the caricatures would be suitable for the production. However she pointed out that I should consider when creating my designs to think about the proportions of the bodies as in my reference material they are disproportioned swell as the clothes. Rebecca gave me the idea to draw over magazines or templates of figures to create the exaggerated sizes on a real body shape. I also talked with her about fabrics and we discussed thinking that they should look fake too and that maybe I should consider using calicos that I paint instead of expensive period fabrics to create the look I wanted.
After taking Rebecca's advice I have started to create my initial designs over magazine templates, I have really enjoyed this type of process and am beginning to see a huge improvement in the artistic style of my designs hopefully this will continue to help me create a professional look to them.