Last Week..

So, it's the end of the semester! YES!

I'm kinda sad though, I mean I wont have anything to do. I'll practice drawing figure over break. Since i have a whole month off! :) I practice pattern making so I can get better at that. but.....enough about that. The end of the semester, I finished my last fashion illustration project number 4 last Thursday and now all I have is a final to prepare for. Yeah, I know how do you prepare for a drawing final. I have no idea, but I'm just going to draw. Until  I can get it right.

Well, here is some picture from my very first drawing project....in the beginning of the semester...

We didn't start off with doing much, just drawing the figure and shading it. We mostly used pencil and gray and beige markers. The very last picture we did for this project was the drop out methods. It's where you drop out color and let fade, so the eye can make the shape on it's own. 

The first one, I did wrong to many lines, and not enough skin tone, and the second is the one i redid over and turned in for my project. 

My Black Chiffon Dress...

So, A while ago this month we had an event called the Renaissance Ball. It's a dance for minority groups, here at KSU along time ago the minorities couldn't participate in the college official homecoming. So, an organizations (B.U.S.-Black United Students) on campus decide to start this ball, which would represent homecoming for the minorities.

Well, that was along time ago, and we can be in the homecoming celebration. (Even though I always choose not to go.)

So, for the annual ball I decided to make my dress! It was a terrible experience and a satisfying one as well. I had made my dress out chiffon, and I'm not sure what the fabric I used at the bottom. (My roommate give it to me) I just know it was a knit (maybe double knit), because it had to side but you couldn't see the other side but it was also see through....I know very confusing.

What I used...

1. Yard of chiffon
2. 1/2 yard of the other fabric
3. Elastic band
4. Sewing machine :)

How I made it...

• Measure my toe to belly button, then my hip and waist.
• Marked it on the fabric...it came out to be all most like a trapezoid.
• Then I add 2 1/2" on the waist edge, 1/2 " on all the other edges, and I cut two piece outta of the chiffon
• Sewed the side seams
• Then I folded down the waist edge and folded that edge a 1/2" again and sewed, left out a piece to put in the elastic in the waistband. Sewed closed.
• On 1 side seam I open it up to a high split,
• Then got the other fabric sewed it to the edge of the chiffon a the bottom 
• Finished the hem.

This is the outcome....

I know you see there a little top part, but my roommate decided to add that last minute, so I really don't know how she did it. It's basic like a saggy front halter top with the back out, and she sewed a strip of the other fabric on one side. 

Fashion Classes: Flat Pattern

Well, one of the main classes, I tried to prepare for over the summer break before school started this Fall 2012 was Flat pattern. For those that do not know flat pattern-making is the basic shade of the garment in the measurement to fit a form.

(These are some pattern piece to give you a visual, and if your into fashion you understand theses piece are pattern pieces use to cut you fabric outta of and how to sew it together.)

Well, it's one of my require classes to take in the fall or spring semester.
Basic things you learn:

• How to make the basic slopers (pattern piece) shirt (front & back) , skirt (front & back) , sleeve, and pants (front & back)
• Take the basic slopers and manipulate them, to come up with different type of pattern, that would change the fabric design when you cut the out and sew it. 
• How to come up with your own design and make the pattern design from your flat or design. (Fashion Flat- 2D image of the garment with complete detail.) 
• Fit garments to the form.
• How to contour. 

Now, My opinion on the class....

• It can be very overwhelming at first. 
• It's a wonderful class, it taught me a lot. It taught me things I would never look into by myself.
• It's a hard class, it's a lot of math and thinking. If even the littlest thing is off, it can cause problem in making the pattern or sewing the garment when you have cut it from the pattern. So, you should never overlook things.
• It's very time consuming....but worth it when you see your finally product. 

I personally dropped the classes, because in the end I didn't get the grades I wanted and decide it would be better to redo, now that it's not so over whelming. I can not wait for Fall 2013! I'm going to pass with flying colors!! 

Here's some of the things, I made in the class with the patterns. Also in another post I will do a video showing how to do a pattern, and manipulated it from fashion industry measurements. :)

The book we used.....

Where Have I been?

     Well, I had started this blog, to go over the things I was learning at Kent fashion school, but I got swapped with the college life. So, I couldn't give this blog my full attention.

...but I decided that I should at least do 5 post a months. So, that's my goal! I will probably end November with a catch up on what I have been doing.

So, What have I been doing?

-Well I take 5 classes (17 credit hours).

• Math
• College Writing
• Fashion Drawing
• Flat Pattern
• Elementary Japanese 

     I'll go into deeper discussion about the fashion classes on a later date. I have been stressed this whole semester, It's like I couldn't get the grip on how fast and hard sophomore year of the fashion school year. So, I know my grades are not where that should be and my GPA is probably going to do down, but other then that I have been helping my roommate with her side fashion school, and fashion products. I been tryin to find a job, so I could finally get off campus and have an apartment. 

I'll be showing more of this semester soon....

Fashion Classes: Foundation of Fashion Drawing

So, another class I took as a freshman was fashion drawing. I took it my spring semester. I loved this class, I'm an artist, so I was excited to finally have a class that was about art, but this class was not easy it require a lot of time and detailed work to get the grade.

Foundation of Fashion Drawing:

• How to make flats, and what they were. How they are important to the industry. 
• If you ask me, I loved making flats. They were very detailed and they had to be perfect. So, it was very time consuming. 
• We also did face studies
• Alot of people struggle doing 3/4 views, but I didnt understand why.
• I loved drawing a face from picture there's no way for it to look bad, if you draw it right.
• How to make fashion figure, going by the ten heads scale. How to make them proportionate.
• We learned front, profile, 3/4, and back views.
• For the most part we use reference picture to make the figures and we did a lot of live model drawing to get different poses. 
• How to marker flats, and marker figure. 
• This was the hardest thing to do, marking was a pain because you didn't want to make it look streaky.
• There was a lot of project and they just kept getting harder as they progressed through the semester. 

I have a lot of the project we did, so I can show some examples.

  These are flats. This was our first project.

• Our second project was to make figures, the figure  below was in project 3, but if you take away the face, hair, hands, shoes, and shading that was everything we did in project 2 a plain figure.
• Project three, we started to put faces and detail on the figure.

• Also, in our project 3 we did putting clothes on a figure and shading with marker and the girl had to be walking to show movement. I'm really proud of the figure I made since it was my first time. 
• We did I first face studies and I worked hard on it and it came out perfect in till, I had to marker it and I hated how it came out. 

  Lastly we had to do contour drawing, it where we drew from a live model with out picking up the pencil, and everything had to connect.

• Last Project we did was project 4, we put all of what we learned together. We made flats, and put them on the body to show how they flowed. The class wanted to be ambitious and wanted to use different colored markers. It made it colorful, but a lot harder, because the darker marker were hard to work with. I had to do an all nighter  on this project.

 They told me at the end my strength was in the hair shading, but I think it was making the figures in general.

Book we used: 

My Sewing Machine :)

My new sewing machine came!! I bought a Brother: LS-2125i.....it's so pretty, but it makes a lot of noise. This is going to get me through college! :)

Fashion Classes: Fashion Fundamentals

Fashion Courses 

So, I got through my first year of fashion, it almost killed me in some courses but not this one! :) At Kent State, we're require to take a course call Fashion Fundamental. It is a super easy course, and very informational. It really helped in courses to come.

Fashion Fundamentals:

• Talks about the background of fashion and different looks throughout the years.
• Talk about all the jobs in the fashion industry.
• How the whole production scenes goes, and steps it takes to start in the fashion industry. 
• What it really means to be a fashion designer. 
• A lot more!

I really enjoyed this course, and I keep notes, and stuff I got from this class because it gives a lot knowledge about what your going to get into as a fashion design major and when you get out in the work place. Something all freshman should get expressed to them. 

Book we used :