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 :

Why fashion design?

Why fashion design? 

I chose to become a fashion major, because I always been interested in different styles. Styles are like art, you can do so many different techniques and create something wonderful. I want my own boutique to have different styles in one places, because I believe people should mix and match to create that style that defines them. I believe in self expression, and fashion can tell a lot bout a person. I want to create that look for everyone unique personality.  

Also, I'm 4"11 and there's hardly any clothes for short people LOL!!

Starts now...

Name: Jazmyne Yates

Age: 18 

Hey, I started this blog as in hope to inspire, educate, and interest people to know what it's like to be a fashion major, or just be in fashion. I have just finished my first year at Kent State University as a fashion major!! YAY :) lol Just bought my first sewing machine ready for this4month long summer!

Goals 

For the blog:

• Get a lot info on Kent State, and what they are doing as a fashion school.
• Show some of the things I do in class, and information on fashion courses I take.
• Complain about my life, and what I am doing to promote myself. 
• Show a bunch art, because I love ART!!

For Me:

• Go on a workout plan for the summer. 
• Make a lot outfits for the summer!
• Study up fashion information.