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
I love a good collage.
I'm making time to blog right now because I go a little crazy if I can't write out what's in my head and all the work puts a lot in my head. Right now I'm busy with two seperate storyboards. One is an avant garde bias cut collection for which I'm concentrating on romantic pastels. I always try to tackle new areas, there are so many things I want to design and never enough time.
Then I'm working on a different project, really boxy movie themed boards, I'm thinking of putting film on the hem and using shiny fabric to retain the futuristic and glamourous feel of everything. These boards are rendered entirely on Photoshop.
So much stress! Then I have jeans to begin and finish asap, my food shoot to edit for Monday and I'm re-doing a sketch of a man in colour. I really prefer pencil drawings, they just look better than the colour versions. I've been so sick that I couldn't work on Thursday, Friday and can't today either. I've got some kind of stomach bug so everything is on hold until I can actually do something. I just got out of bed to finally update. x
Then I'm working on a different project, really boxy movie themed boards, I'm thinking of putting film on the hem and using shiny fabric to retain the futuristic and glamourous feel of everything. These boards are rendered entirely on Photoshop.
So much stress! Then I have jeans to begin and finish asap, my food shoot to edit for Monday and I'm re-doing a sketch of a man in colour. I really prefer pencil drawings, they just look better than the colour versions. I've been so sick that I couldn't work on Thursday, Friday and can't today either. I've got some kind of stomach bug so everything is on hold until I can actually do something. I just got out of bed to finally update. x
