Vintage Project Evaluation - 21/03/15

I chose to research the 1940s era because I’ve always liked everything about the 40s like their fashion, makeup style, music and movies etc. I mainly focused on women’s fashion/hair & beauty. The topics from the 40s that I chose to include and research in my sketchbook are cartoons, movies, music, women’s hair & beauty, makeup and fashion. I focused on fashion the most.

The artists & designers I have chosen to look at are Walt Disney, Claire McCardell, Bonnie Cashin and Pablo Picasso. I chose Disney because he is the most popular animator of that time and still popular now, I chose Claire McCardell because she designs a lot of the popular women’s dresses in the 40s; Bonnie Cashin as she designed a lot of sports clothes in the 40s and Picasso because he was an artist in the 40s and is very well known for his quirky, old fashioned, abstract drawings & paintings.

The media I have used in my sketchbook is: pencil, coloured pencil, black fine-liner, black pen, blue pen, water colour paint, acrylic paint, felt tip pens, red pen, coloured fine-liner pens, paper (printing out pictures & collage), coloured pencil on black paper, white coloured pencil on black paper, pritt stick (glue), ribbon, beads, stickers, black string and laminated some paper. I used felt tip pens for Minnie Mouse to give the cartoon style look that Disney used in his cartoons. Acrylic paints give a bold and bright effect e.g. on the superman drawing.

I have annotated the pages where I have been most creative e.g. added extra pages or added things to the page like flaps, ribbon etc.

I think I handled time management pretty well, I could have got more done if I did work every single day and spread it out more on the last few pages but overall I think it went well. I am satisfied with my sketchbook because I used a range of media and covered quite a few topics in the 40’s; my information is good and drawings are detailed even when I did quick sketches. I could have also added other topics like the war, men’s fashion and used sewing in the fashion section if I had more time.