So I just lost all faith in the model beauty...I knew about airbrushing but seeing what photoshop can do like in this video is a real eye opener!
http://youtu.be/omBfg3UwkYM
Monday, February 28, 2011
Graphics Elective!!
I finally got my word to work with for the graphics brief! The suspense nearly killed me....genuinely, I really wanted to know!.Negotiate!
I was a bit stumped at first but I broke out the old brainstorming and I think I'm on track!
It's time for typography now and this website is proving pretty interesting! I'm starting from the bottom up and hope to go from knowing ....pretty much nothing...to typography pro in the week we have !
www.ilovetypography.com
I was a bit stumped at first but I broke out the old brainstorming and I think I'm on track!
It's time for typography now and this website is proving pretty interesting! I'm starting from the bottom up and hope to go from knowing ....pretty much nothing...to typography pro in the week we have !
www.ilovetypography.com
Sunday, February 27, 2011
And six is the magic number!
So my final six designs were to be assaulted by my colour story.....which was rather wild.....but I like to think a dash of colour never hurt anyone!
...Blogger is fighting me on this one and not allowing me to upload any more of my coolour story pictures. This is probably a good thing....saving your eyes and my credibility!
...Blogger is fighting me on this one and not allowing me to upload any more of my coolour story pictures. This is probably a good thing....saving your eyes and my credibility!
Fashion Blogging
I figure you only learn from others! I find some really interesting things just looking through what other people blog about. Hopefully this doesn't count as stalking....but then again what else are blogs for only to be followed!
http://www.coutureinthecity.com/
http://www.stilettojungleblog.com/
http://www.coutureinthecity.com/
http://www.stilettojungleblog.com/
Material World
So working in paper was fun but material is that bit more practical! Using the same shapes, it was interesting to see how different weight fabrics fell to form designs. you could say the material has a mind of its own, especially in the case of the lighter weights, like chiffon.
This is one of my shapes. It is my most simple shape but I managed to get some really inspired designs out of my work with it al the same.
These are some examples of what this medium weight fabric shape transformed into, it's amazing how much you can create from one piece of fabric! I could have been at the stand for days!
Working with heavy weight material (oil cloth) was an eye opener! The ease with which the chiffon had fallen was deffinately a thing of the past! Folds has to be much more structured because of the rigidness of the material but that was to be expected!No easily manipulating this oil cloth!
This is one of my shapes. It is my most simple shape but I managed to get some really inspired designs out of my work with it al the same.
These are some examples of what this medium weight fabric shape transformed into, it's amazing how much you can create from one piece of fabric! I could have been at the stand for days!
Working with heavy weight material (oil cloth) was an eye opener! The ease with which the chiffon had fallen was deffinately a thing of the past! Folds has to be much more structured because of the rigidness of the material but that was to be expected!No easily manipulating this oil cloth!
Fashion Elective
So Ive spent the last two weeks in the fashion world! Quite a change from ceramics but just as fun! I liked the challenge of working with shapes trying to directly inspire my final designs. Sometimes being restricted makes my ideas all the more inventive.
I could feel myself getting into the process of designing as the weeks went by. I can see the difference myself between the beginning and the finish of my sketchbook. I began to grow more comfortable with designing for the body and gradually developed my own style. The two weeks were challenging but I feel that I learned a lot, both about fashion practices and about my own capabilities.
Here are some of my initial paper shapes fashioned into design details on a menequin. I prefered working on the manequin to working in my sketchbook because of the 3D element. I found it easier to illustrate my ideas using paper and material rather than drawing.
Would you ever believe these shapes started out like as parts of teapots!
I could feel myself getting into the process of designing as the weeks went by. I can see the difference myself between the beginning and the finish of my sketchbook. I began to grow more comfortable with designing for the body and gradually developed my own style. The two weeks were challenging but I feel that I learned a lot, both about fashion practices and about my own capabilities.
Here are some of my initial paper shapes fashioned into design details on a menequin. I prefered working on the manequin to working in my sketchbook because of the 3D element. I found it easier to illustrate my ideas using paper and material rather than drawing.
Would you ever believe these shapes started out like as parts of teapots!
Ceramics Elective
My first venture after the Christmas rush was into the field of ceramics. I found the two weeks I spent in this discipline strangely like relaxation therapy or meditation! I was never so at ease. The act of smoothing out my pieces and trying to form them perfectly was right up my alley and I thoroughly enjoyed spending 'quality time' with my ceramics pieces!
I even made something I can be proud of!
We learned how to use raku firing techniques, a prcatice I had never so much as heard of! Now however, confessing to me that you never heard of raku would evoke a response along the lines of 'What!! I don't belileve you!'. I grew to love even the barbeque smoke smell the smouldering smoke bins left behind on every inch of my clothing!Unfortunately for me this particular odour did not withstand the wrath of my washing detergent :(
Unfortunately, I can't say much for the bowl i threw but you have to start somewhere!
I even made something I can be proud of!
We learned how to use raku firing techniques, a prcatice I had never so much as heard of! Now however, confessing to me that you never heard of raku would evoke a response along the lines of 'What!! I don't belileve you!'. I grew to love even the barbeque smoke smell the smouldering smoke bins left behind on every inch of my clothing!Unfortunately for me this particular odour did not withstand the wrath of my washing detergent :(
Unfortunately, I can't say much for the bowl i threw but you have to start somewhere!
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