Adornment- Week 1

This week, I have been introduced to a new project, which is a taster course in fashion textiles and surface design, and the brief is called adornment. Adornment means beautification, and I am considering reusing materials and giving it a chance to start a new life.
I was given an artist called Christopher Wool and an architecture movement called High Tech, which acts as my starting point to the project and has been done in order to challenge my problem solving skills, which is a transferable skill in a designing career. After much thought I have decided to combine these two contrasting styles by using the same colors Christopher Wool uses (red, white, grey, black, and blue), and I am making use of the architectural patterns.
I have been through a printing workshop, which combines image and blank screen printing. I prefer my second print because it is related to  the architecture I was given and it has sections of abstract art.
I have also done a life drawing session using graphite pencil, which was easy to use and it creates bold outlines. For this session, we were looking at the way fabric droops around the model, which is a transferable skill for illustrating fashion. I like this drawing because of the detail in the face and the way the hair strands are defined. My tutor advised me to focus on putting detail into the face and working downwards because an illustration is supposed to have personality, so the viewer knows who the individual is and what type of person the product is for. I dislike it however because it feels incomplete, making it in-balanced and unnatural.
I have also completed my sewing introduction, which has enabled me to experiment with my ideas. I started off using an embroidery hoop with a sewing machine, which I found difficult to control because you have to make sure the fabric is tight and the hoop needs to remain flat. I have decided to create triangular shapes in order to emphasize the geometric patterns within high tech architecture. I have also cut out smaller triangular shapes and added it to my free hand embroidery in order to add colors inspired by Christopher Wool. I like this design because it relates to my architecture and my artist, and it also goes with the theme adornment because I am re-using fabric and giving it a new purpose. I also like this design because it is playful and attractive to the viewer. I might consider using this technique in my work because it is colourful and has different techniques used within this work. However, I am leaning towards using screen printing because I want to build up my printing skills for the Graphic Design Degree that I am hoping to be apart of next year. In addition to building up my portfolio, I have decided to transform this fashion/ textiles project in my favor and make it relevant to visual communication. I plan to do this by designing a pattern and shaping it in the form of typography, which demonstrates I am able to be adaptive and it will strengthen my portfolio.
Next, I am going to design an image for a silkscreen and explore how I can play with this design. I also think I need to start researching more artists because I am required to have a minimum of six artists. I can start by researching how I am going to transform my patterns into typography and what textures I could use.