And the list goes on

So this week we were given the greatest gift ever! The gift of catch up time. Which would have been ideal for the tons of hand sewing re-fabrication I'm still busy with. We were then given the mission of completing one of our collection looks, along with several visual assignments, which include hands and feet (again) and accessory design assignment. 

The hands and feet turned out to be a little more challenging than usual, yet exciting as I am not overly eager to experiment with different media, which this assignment forced me to.

Here are the pics

The gray is Pencil, Blue - dry pastel, the black - Charcoal and the purple and yellow - Coloured pencil

The garments and accessory design is still on its way. Will post pics as soon as they're done.

Filling the Gaps

 The re-fabrication in my collection, is of the strongest contributions to my collection theme. The fabrics all have a texture or have a strange colour which emphasize distressing and decomposition of the state of the world. Here are some pictures of them.

leather  with textured film cover

Rusted and coffee dyed

Rusting

Hand sewing the lozenge pattern

Reverse side of leopard print fabric

Textured cotton blend

CAD has always been a bit of a mission for me, not because I can't do it, but it somehow never turns out the way I'd planned. So this term, I've made it my business to get back into making things work and finishing them the way they need to be done. Wish me luck :-). We did re-touching of model on Photoshop, and I was impressed at the simple techniques used to 'Beautify' models, which really makes me feel better after looking at a magazine cover and knowing a few of the tricks of the trade.

Landscape drapery assignment 

This was quite interesting, as I had always thought I had fabric rendering covered and was fully capable of doing it properly. I couldn't have been more wrong!

I realized that my 'technique' (if I could still call it that) was scratchy and folds would only exist in my drapery, when my mood was right. Which meant that I had to spend more time on making my drapery landscape look like an ok-ish landscape. Think I know where I went wrong now.

Here's the picture of the landscape I illustrated

Just another manic Monday

Working at home is harder than I’d like to admit. Not because I’m lazy, but there are constant distractions, which includes the likes of a bouncing, bubbly three year old boy, who never seems to get tired, - ever.

So it’s been crunch time and I’ve been trying to pull all the stops to make this collection everything that I had envisioned. Although they were not joking when they said that it would change throughout the planning processes.

The re-fabrication for Storyboarding has been so time consuming but will hopefully make a unique collection.

I'll post some photo's as soon as they are done, they're still setting

Oh yes, and an update photo of Nicole

I thought I’d put in some inspirational pics from my croquis book