Making the Designs
Main Front Print...
- I wanted to a create a T shirt design that really communicates my visual identity and shows off my skills. I wanted to create an iconic face design, I wanted to combine my lino cutting skills with my more experimental drippy ink outlines.
- I wanted to create a 2 layer screen print and apply my colour blend techniques to it as well.
- I started by making a lino cut of a simple and shapey balaclava face, for an outline to sit on top.
- I produce loads of different quick outlines of faces in a thick ink pen that worked around the shape of the lino. There was something satisfying about the repetitive process here , I just kept drawing face after face until I had one I was really confident with and worked well with the lino shape.
Favourite face...
1st Layer, Colour blend...
Printed T shirts...
Lino prints for each side of the hood...
- I had been wanting too experiment with printing on hoods for a while now so this was the perfect opportunity.
- I made two different sidewards facing face designs for either side of the hoods, lining up the screens with the hoods and stretching out the fabric was the most difficult part about printing them.
Printed Hoodies...
- I printed all of my hoodies on light grey so I could apply the different colour blended faces to them.
Wierdo collaborations with Kieran...
Promotional Pics...
- The hood prints went down really well with people, I really liked how they looked and they gave my hoodies a good unique selling point - I think it was the hoods that drew a lot of the interest towards my clothes. Having a choice in colour blends was also a really good selling point, the fact each print was unique and slightly different from others made them even more desirable.
- Im really pleased with how popular the clothing was, I wasn't really expecting such I high demand for them via my instagram. It started of as an experiment but the more I started to sell I could feel it turning into more of a proper business idea. I kept ordering and printing more and more until I had to put a stop to it and try and organise myself properly. My next step is to try and get a proper clothing brand up and running - using my illustrative ideas as selling points for the clothes. The most important thing to take from all this is the fact that there is a market out there for these kind of products. So I need to continue experimenting with how my illustration work can translate into clothing products and other fashion.
- In future I would like to bring out another run of clothes but maybe using a different one of my initial face outlines. I would also like to try out some more hood designs and experiment with other areas of the hoodie I could print designs onto like the sleeves, pocket, back etc.
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