Finally got a new computer! My eldest brother put it together for me and gave it to me free! It's crazy, it has an LED screen and he installed Windows 7. I feel very lucky to have two big brothers looking out for me. So I started sewing up a jacket today and I have to be finished it by Friday. I have to stay at college every day until 4:30 and then come home and work on multiple assignments! Between fixing dinner and trying to get some chill time in, I fall into bed and then repeat the cycle all over again.
3rd year is intense, I'm quite excited to be designing a seven piece collection but first I have to finish 140 technical drawings for next Wednesday. Yeah, that's one hundred and forty. I'm seriously dying. Right now I have 35 in pencil so still not a quarter of the way yet and I forgot them all at college today between sewing darts and rushing home. I can't wait to wear my graduation outfit, one of those rights of passage I see in the movies...mostly I'm in it forthe hat what it means. It's just, at the beginning, all you want to do is be able to visualise the end or be closer to it. It's so hard to imagine now when I'm right at the start. Here's my final illustration I handed in last week
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3rd year is intense, I'm quite excited to be designing a seven piece collection but first I have to finish 140 technical drawings for next Wednesday. Yeah, that's one hundred and forty. I'm seriously dying. Right now I have 35 in pencil so still not a quarter of the way yet and I forgot them all at college today between sewing darts and rushing home. I can't wait to wear my graduation outfit, one of those rights of passage I see in the movies...mostly I'm in it for
Stealing some time to blog! It's the first week of 3rd year, my final year and truth be told I was freaking out about it. You forget things like all the different methods of sewing in a zip or doing welt pockets (curse you welt pockets!) and you start to think, "Oh no, am I supposed to be here, am I equipped enough?" Then I started to get into it and some skills came back out (except I don't think the welt pocket skills will ever come out) and you begin to make a mental note to forget about fear and doubt, until another time when you think you have no idea what's going on again.
The funny thing is, doubts and fears present themselves in other ways. One of my problems with art is that I do things too lightly, I'm too scared to really push down, really go into it. My art lecturer told me she sees the beginning of something happening but I'm too scared to take it there. I am not a natural artist, I'm one of those creative types who can't draw. I need to go further, need to work into it more and more and more, you think you're finished until you add a little black here and mix unusual colours there and it gets more dimension. My favorite medium is colour pencil because I find erasers so helpful but I think one day, I'll have to give up the eraser, till then x
The funny thing is, doubts and fears present themselves in other ways. One of my problems with art is that I do things too lightly, I'm too scared to really push down, really go into it. My art lecturer told me she sees the beginning of something happening but I'm too scared to take it there. I am not a natural artist, I'm one of those creative types who can't draw. I need to go further, need to work into it more and more and more, you think you're finished until you add a little black here and mix unusual colours there and it gets more dimension. My favorite medium is colour pencil because I find erasers so helpful but I think one day, I'll have to give up the eraser, till then x
We were told to keep it soft, not to overwork structure into it. I chose the St. Petersburg Cathedral as inspiration.
Durban July storyboard based on the 20s