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Artworks - Curriculum - KIMONO [Sketchbook]

Thursday, January 5, 2012♥

11:50 AM

KIMONO SKETCH BOOK :D

The cover is basically a sum-up of ideas and implementations of my KIMONO.

Close ups on Details on the cover page :

These braids are actually made from plain yarn (original colour is the white one), where 3 seperate braids are dyed in their respective colours before braiding the braids together (:

A sort of pun on my own name and KIMONO ..

The Japanese Kanji of KIMONO, it's infused with Watercolour illustration of Japanese prints, patterns are from an origami paper my aunt bought me from Japan.

First page of interior. Shows my initial brain-storming and I drew this eagerly as ideas were still swimming in my head when I first got the sketch book. It features a traditional-ish one integrated with the ideas of fans and oriental knots. The Second one is an impulsive and impractical design I did based on gothic-lolita, something I was quite fascinated with in the recent past.

This is a close-up of the bottom one, an illustration type of thing, and obviously when to comes to KIMONO you think of Geishas, no?

Here are some swirls that are inspired by Victorian and Japanese prints, it could have been used for certain parts of the Kimono?

BRAIDS! Yes the Idea hit me and I went ALL THE WAY with it on this particular sketch, exploring all types of ways I could use it

Yes, I even considered just stamping this victorian inspired pattern all over my Kimono, just like a Victorian wallpaper, but then I realised its really intricate. Oh I also integrated my passion for fashion inside, and I've made use of both positive and negative space. The pattern will still make sense whether you look from upside down or right side up (:

Experimentation with the braids using random yarn, I braided one strand then twirled it with another strand which was just a simple twine made out of 2 strings.

Here, I was inspired by a work on deviantart, and decided to to something similar and infuse Japanese prints into the face, (I like to draw faces) as something unique, and different. The Japanese prints are meant to suggest shadows and certain details on the face itself.

A bow made of a tight braid.

The twine thing from earlier, taken from a different angle, the colour scheme reminds of vegetables...

FANS - I adopted the idea of fans and developed it since I had already included it in my brainstorming page. Fans are also a good medium as it provides a form of texture so that my Kimono woud look more 3 dimensional as well as visually interesting, rather than flat forms on it.

Here is a close-up on the fan itself, you may be wondering what image is actually on the fans. On those fans are actually my old sketches done from Secondary One. I thought it would be more meaningful that way rather than having plain fans, they would be neat but without a personal touch. Furthermore, they were sitting in a random corner in my room, and some of them were not quite presentable enough (to me) to see the light of day hence I thought this would be the perfect oppurtunity to put them to good use!