CLOUDS

As part of my Fashion Visualization brief I've been learning all aspects of how to visualize design ideas.. from figure drawing, rendering fabrics, fashion illustrations in many different media and technical spec drawings. 

This is the first technical spec drawing I've done, it's a classic men's shirt from my own wardrobe. It's hand drawn then cleaned up in Photoshop, I then used a scan of a cute cloud print fabric to 'color' it in using the digital collage technique I'm quite fond of for my illustrations.

I'm really please at how it turned out as it was the first one I've ever done, if you are interested in doing some technical spec drawings here are a few tips that I used:

1. Use a ruler and french curves, it's really important that you have smooth lines.
2. Always look down at the garment from a 'birds eye' perspective.
3. Keep everything in scale with each other e.g. the arms in scale with the body. 

Hope those help, if you have any questions or a comment you can leave one below or tweet me!

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HELLO SEPTEMBER

OMG, is it seriously September already!?

For me September is always the start of the new year, wholly based on for as long as I can remember September has always herald the start of the new school/college year. A time of re-invention, starting anew and the prospect of new challenges that lay ahead.

This September will be the dawning of not just a new academic year but the dawning of a completely new life for me, I will be moving away from home to live in Cardiff and attend the University of Glamorgan to study Fashion Design. It is the most life changing event that I will have experienced so far and I am a mix of emotions.. from excitement to fear and everything in between. But one of the most prevailing emotions is excitement, it's a whole new adventure and let me tell you.. I love a good adventure!

I'm so exited to make new friends, live independently and to take my work to another level. My social life will (hopefully) be better than it ever has been before, certainly for the first few week/months it will be an endless circle of meeting new people and being thrown into social occasions that are completely new to me. For the first time ever I will be living independently, all my life I have had parents to cook, clean, wash for me.. and now it's all down to myself. It's going to be a challenge, I know it is.. but one which I will learn from and it will set me up for future life. Of course, all this is secondary to the one main reason why all of this is happening.. I will be an official Fashion Design Student. My work and everything that goes with it will be pushed, challenged and taken to heights I have not reached before. I have so many ideas and so many things I want to experiment with, all of which I will have the resources and creative backing to run with and that's going to be amazing.

Of course I'm scared to the bone with all this change, but it's an important part of life and one which leads to onto the path which I want to follow to achieve all of my dreams and ambitions. Yes it's scary, yes it's going to be hard and yes I'm going to be paying a lot to receive this education BUT it's what I need to do to/what I want to do to get where I want to get in life.. to become a globally known, successful and famed Fashion Designer.

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