Wedding Dresses from Toilet Paper

  During this project I worked with Cheyenne and Vanessa to create beautiful and sophisticated wedding dress designs using toilet paper. The objective of this lesson was to practice design illusions, lines, and principles of design. In between lab time the class would study how to use lines to create illusions. We familiarized ourselves with the properties of the lines and how they alter a design. For example horizontal lines promote width, vertical lines promote a tall slender figure, and curved lines promote softness. We also had to challenge ourselves to achieve visual harmony to avoid making our dress look chaotic or misplaced.
  Our original vision for our design was a dress that from top to bottom had a sweetheart neckline that fell into a cinched in waist which transformed into a voluminous ball gown-esque skirt. My team and I began to pin our first pieces onto the dress form and began to tinker it to our liking. We achieved our goal of a cinched appearance by using diagonal lines pointing inwards creating an almost V like quality.  By the end of the first day, we pretty much had the entire top of the dress complete. My team and I were extremely proud of what what we accomplished at that point because the top was even better than we envisioned originally. Before we wrapped up to go home, multiple groups came together for a critique. We acknowledged the useful feedback and through of ways we can apply the creative criticism.
  When it was lab time the next day we decided that it was time to work on the bottom portion of the gown. Our original vision was to have a poofy ballgown like skirt so we began to scrunch and pin toiled paper to use as filler to drape over. When we were done pinning the filler we were pleasantly surprised to find that the scrunched toilet paper was a stunning feature on our design.n We concluded that the gown would be more harmonious and aesthetically pleasing without draping over the filler and leaving it heavily textured. The neat straight top with the textured bottom balance resulting in visual harmony. We finished our design with a simple choker addition that incorporated both straight lines and curved lines witch was the theme for our dress.
 This project has been helpful in teaching me the significance of line and how one can use them to create design illusions. I also learned that the principles of design are almost like guidelines and how to combine the visual elements to create harmony.