C.A.D

I am also at the moment busy with my computer aided design flat drawings for my dresses i designed for ann mao.

i have so far completed six pages on adobe, which is three designs. So i have one design left to draw out on the computor (front and back). then i have my four spec sheets to be getting on with, and also my cad essay and my file. I do feel quite overloaded with cad work at the moment and i'm finding it hard to think about other projects.

the design on the left took me five hours to draw out, it has so many feathers on, its a complete cad nightmare!

60's

I have been given a new brief and i found it hard to pick a topic initially, I looked at images that inspired me and combined them together. One thing I noticed is that these images were not wishy washy and very vibrantly coloured. One thing i can not stand is wishy washy paint, weak colour.

I had alot of images relating to nature and the earth, the thing that was vividly screaming from this selection of images was 1960's.

1960's has always been the decade that has inspired me most.

I then researched more into the subject, into 60's art most of this was art deco, i did not really want to go down this route.

This time when making my garments i want them to be brightly coloured, i tend to stick to black when designing or mixing a colour with black. I need to get out of this comfort zone.

As an artist colour has always been my strong point and i think this should reflect onto my garment designs.

I have sketched out some rough plans on how i want my garments to be. I want them to have a 1960's silloette, vivid colour and vivid pattern, iv been researching different flowers and the most suited to get an interesting pattern out of is probably the passion flower.

I have not based a topic on an era before and at the moment i feel like there is a million things i could be doing, the thing i am most interested in would be to research the people and get a good insight to how they behaved and what it was like living in 1960's.

SWOT Analysis

Today i recieved my mark back for my evening wear dress >71%
I am very pleased with this mark however i could have picked up easy marks on my sketchbook.

My strengths are: my presentation of my sketchbook, atmospheric drawings. I have indicated the dress process fully. i have carefully considered the possible solutions to variuos problems as and when they occured.

My weaknesses:
My reflective aspect of the project could be further enhanced through exploring your feelings and failures.
not confident with industrial machines
pattern cutting could be better

Opportunities:
continue to practice on industrial machines which enable me to produce more complex and technically challenging designs.
be more precise when pattern cutting

T:

*Industrail machines only available 9-4 when i am at college doing other tasks,
*time

FLAT DRAWINGS

one thing im the worst at is drawing hand rendoured flats,

i have been drawing some up for my portfolio

i find its easier to draw a garment if it is on a hanger it looks more natural rather than trying to draw it flat on the table.

I have very carefully sewed the two rows of feathers onto the bottom seam I think it looks really good already it still needs the see through underskirt as the dress is quite short.

I have started cutting out thew black taffeta pattern for the top of the dress! I still need to cut out black tafeta on the bias to cover up the feather line aswel!!

I think I will definatly get my dress finished on time. I was getting worried when I had only done the toile and how bad it looked compared to what it looks like now.

final garment

I have cut out the pattern, overlocked , sewed the seams, pressed it open. Also sewed up the lining. Only when i had sewed it up i was told it would need fusinng on the top of my dress! it took me all morning to unpick the seams and cut out the fusing, whole day wasted on something which i could have been told previously.

passion flowers