3D Paper Workshop

The mannequin workshop that I did on Monday taught us how to be more experimental with the shapes of silhouettes and how to use a simple shape, multiply it, and create really interesting designs. We started off using 8 A4 exactly the same shapes and place them on the mannequin, accentuating different parts of garments such as collars, bodices and back of the garments. The pins really help to give the shapes more height and curves to them. The picture to the right is supposed to be a collar, made from paper, because I have morphed the original shapes so much it is impossible to tell what simple shape I started with.  For the second part of the workshop I found a simple shape from my research, cut it to a width of around 1cm and placed it over the mannequin. This gave me ideas for different edges of fabrics and also interesting seam placements. By doing this it can make a garment a lot more interesting.

For the final part of the workshop we made our pieces more 3D by attaching each shape together at the edges and then found interesting ways of putting them on the body. I found it really fascinating how such a weird looking shape managed to turn into something that resembled a fashion garment.

My favourite was the one that formed the style of a short modern jacket. Once I realised what it was starting to look like I tried to add little details such as folding back the corners at the top to make it look like a collar.

The workshop was extremely helpful in the way that it has given me so many ideas to now work from. By developing the images further I have created around 24 different designs simply from the 3 tasks that we did. I especially liked the thin strip technique as it can give you edges or seams to change to make a design look visually interesting.

If I were to use any of these techniques again I would create more and more so that I have a surplus of initial ideas to develop and use later on.