ABOVE THE CLOUDS

“The sun always shines above the clouds.” 

I love clouds. For as long as I can remember I've always loved clouds, to me they are utterly beautiful and fascinating. They're always different, there are no two clouds alike and they are constantly changing. Like the first picture in my collage, I took it outside my bedroom window.. within 5 minutes it the sky turned dark and the clouds became black as nighttime fell.

On summer days I love just laying back and daydreaming whilst watching the clouds sweep across the sky, it's quite calming. Clouds have inspired a couple of pieces in my first collection for the Kawaii Kingdom line I've designed (even the logo is a cloud!).

I definitely want to use some of my images that I have taken (all my with iPhone 4S, amazing camera for a phone) and get them printed onto fabric. Think they'd be such a cute print, whimsical yet full of depth. 

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FASHION VISUALIZATION

Things have been quiet here for the past couple of weeks, apologies but I have been working non stop. Monday I had a huge deadline for my Fashion Visualization module, I had only a few weeks left to complete a research journal into the fashion of the 18th Century with designs, a layout pad with developed designs, a file full of visualization tasks we had to complete such as figure drawing, collage techniques and digital work, a final A3 fashion illustration featuring a shirt we designed from our research and a power point presentation of our work.

Phew! So as you can guess I was pretty busy! But it's all been worth it, I'm very happy with the work I did and I can see that my drawing skills have improved.. especially when it comes to figure drawing. We had to draw a model from life every Wednesday then develop refined figure templates from those, I'm really happy with how mine turned out and it's cool that they're totally mine and unique to me.

I did a lot of digital visualization too, something which I have had much experience with in past projects so I was confident with that work and did well with it. I learnt a new collage technique, using masking tape to create a silhouette, it was really effective as the texture of the masking tape mimics the texture of the fabric that would be used for a dress like this.

And this is my final fashion illustration that I made, it was inspired by the dresses of late 18th Century France, think Marie Antoinette but with a more contemporary look. I firstly hand drew the drawing, then scanned it into Photoshop and used a digital collage technique to 'color it in'. I hope you guys like it, I've already got my new project brief entitled 'Innovations' which I will be posting about very soon!

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