pattern

when i sewed up my toile it didnt actualy fit on the stand, needed to add extra two cms to bust and middle was two big, added to side seam took out from middle

patttern cutting

my block for my dress design

boards

the start of my boards i think there starting off pretty good, still need to print off alot more bird images but bigger rather than little ones to stop it from looking cheap!!!

i have a problem of printing things off too small, taking the easy, cheaper way, everything always looks so rubbish when its small especially in sketchbook!!!

I ALSO HATE PUTTING ANNOTATION ON MY WORK IT MAKES IT LOOK SO CHEAP.

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more sketchbook

Sketchbook

This week been concentrating on filling in my sketchbook!!

I have been informed i need more drawings, annotation. My tutor says my sketchbook is like myself, you never know what is going on.

I want people who look at my sketchbook to know whats going on!! and for it to provoke my theme.

I got my feathers this week aswel!!!! They are beautiful and i can't wait to see what my end result will look like.

Why I don't use water colour

This is what happens everytime i try to paint with water colour, i always end up using pencils over the top. One of these days i will invest in a decent paintbrush!!!!

Im looking at the bottom corner now...its terrible!!!!!!!!!

Mc Queen

When Burton took over Mcqueens fashion house i thought it would not be the same, she has proved us wrong she has captured mcqueens true elements and continued his style of design!!

lalala

This was for my whistles design project how i want my final set to look like. I love the ink and i think the acrylic paint looks really good, however i only used it becasue i am not very good with watercolour, i do tend to be quite shy when using watercolour. Water colour will be a great medium when doing my final layout for my evening collection especially with my theme. For my final set for this project i want the models to have sixtees hair and makeup being when the film was made. I do not necciserialy like the hair and the face needs more work on figure above. I want the figures to have a haunting element about them, i will think about that nearer the time although it is getting quite near hand in. I have been terrible with getting on and doing my work since the four months i had in the summer. I have been wasting my time too much drinking every night ahhh. I am going to make a time table today that i can stick to. I have so much work and hardly any time to do it at the moment. I know that if i organise my time wisely from now i can get myself sorted!! and hopefully have everyhting finished for handin !!

The Pain Of Body Blanks

This week i have undergone the task of making new body blanks. This time I do not want them to be posey, just as if they are walking along. When making body blanks i do always tend to hate doing them. I am fine when i have to copy a pose but they tend to be too restricted and i have it in my head that they have to be perfect which my tutor has informed me this is not the case. I am not very happy with them at the moment but i am sure they will look fine once they are painted filled in and not all lines.

Mao couture

INTRO first post

I have been asked to design an evening wear dress for Ann Mao. When first viewing the type of dress i was going to design I felt the designs were too girly, not sexy fairytale dresses. (american prom dress style) I then had the dilema of thinking what my theme should be for the dress not wanting to go down that route.

I went away, came back with various ideas. While watching one of my favorite movies The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock i decided that i wanted to do something related to birds and the extremity of their minds. Most people think of birds as "pea brained" creatures however they are actualy very inteligant: their flight patterns migratating. I don't necessarily find them very attrative, there is always an haunting element about them probably too much of watching The Birds . I do find the patterns of their feathers exeptionaly diverse. Also the many different kinds.

I began my sketchbook, starting to research more into the subject.

When researching, I found it was the siloette that would help me to design my collection, combined with the irredescent colours of the starling. I wanted to do an outrageous brightly coloured dress, however with my theme now being english birds based on the Daphne Du Maurier book, obviously it will not be so bright.

After doign some feather samples of sewing feathers in a line onto material. I found this method was going to be more pricy, time consuming and not reliable as the feathers might fall out easily. I was adviced to buy them on a reel from a feather manufacturer.