After photographing Beth and exploring the theme of homelessness, I decided to photograph more homeless people that I found aesthetically interesting. These two men in sleeping bags  were also photographed around Brick Lane, whilst I was on my way to the Whitechapel Gallery to see the Hanna Hosch Exhibition. I was drawn to them because of the interesting, organic shapes of their sleeping bags and the clashing colours and patterns in their mishmash of blankets, plastic bags and rubbish.

I drew them out onto tracing paper in the same style that I did with my drawing of Beth the homeless girl, detailed yet roughly drawn, with bold a bold and minimal colour palette. I thought this illustration style worked really well for the theme of homelessness as it had a gritty, rawness about it. I also wanted to show a continuation of a theme throughout my project. 

I really liked the blobby, organic shapes that the human forms in sleeping bags created, so I experimented with placing them on the body to generate design inspiration. I thought the initial shapes were interesting, but they needed refining in order to look like a garment, so I did some quick sketches in pencil of some more structured designs.



I plan to develop these sketches further and add colour to them. I noticed that the shapes and structures of these designs are almost abstract pieces of clothing, and push the limits of what a garment should be. I would defiantly like to have element of this in my final outcome.