Illustration

Another illustration day i worked on my logo and label thing again and also played around with using the blend and 3D tool. I quite like the effects i came up with using the shape tools and layering then blending, it works quite well.

In my logo and label work i changed the black outlines to purple to give it a bit more colour and also added swatches next to my designs.Then i wrote a bit abit what i think my designs represent and also added an address.

♥Tiffany♥

Tuesday 24th November

Today we had a catch session with Jamie, I didn't have anything to catch up on so i started to work on my groups presentation for PPRD, we're going to do it on New York.

♥Tiffany♥

Drawings and more Melting Pot project

Today we had another lesson on drawings, first of we had karen and worked on working drawings. This was handy as it showed us which was the wrong and right way of doing the drawings and how they were supposed to be. After a break we had Sarah and used the very messy charcoal, but i like using charcoal and had already done the exercise we did so i found it pretty easy=] After lunch we had to get on with our Melting Pot projects.

♥Tiffany♥

Friday 20th November- Catch up day

Today was another ctach up day where we had both 1st and 2nd years in, i decided to go in early so i could get my preferred sewing machine. I decided to redo the collar on my bodice as after looking at it i wasn't happy with how it looked.
After i had done that i did the homework we were set in pattern cutting to do a sleeve with a cuff, it was a bit confusing but i think i managed to get it right=]
Not a long day at all as i was out before 11=]

♥Tiffany♥

Construction

Ok today was very packed full of things to do and fast paced so you had to try not go wrong to keep up. Worse of all we had to overlock on a curve hard or what.
However i felt like i had achieved alot and did manage to keep up=] So that means my skirt is all done, and since we started the shorts today i don't have to worry about them till next construction lesson=]

♥Tiffany♥

Perclers Paris

Today we had a lecture from Perclers Paris who forecast fashion. It was a very detailed lecture and was hard to take everything in but i managed to make loads of notes=]

♥Tiffany♥

Powerpoint

In todays lesson, we used powerpoint i think everyone knew how to use this since you learn it from a young age. Plus i spent most of my sixth form life using it for presentations in IT and business so was really easy to use. I decided to do it on Zandra Rhodes as i have used her for inspiration so many times before.
After i had done the powerpoint i did some illustrations from two of her designs.

♥Tiffany♥

Illustration drawing- Monday 16th November

Yesterday we continued on with our melting pot drawing, but we also tried out some flat drawing exercises, first starting with drawing of the mannequins, which then we had to try and draw legs, arms and a head to. I thought this exercise was very handy as i knew that i had trouble drawing illustrations by hand but by the end of the day i had found that i had definitely improved=]
I also managed to get my skirt done to the point we were told=] Which was finishing putting the invisible zip in and putting together the skirt and the facing. So now i don't have to worry about that, i was glad i could get that done during the lesson=]

♥Tiffany♥

Thursday 12th and Friday 13th Nov

Friday 13th November

On Friday we had another construction lesson, where we used our skirt patterns to start constructing it. First task of the day trying to align the fabric by steaming and stretching this took a while to get right. Once all the patterns were cut out we learnt how to apply interfacing to facing and then started to construct the zipper to the back of the skirt.

Thursday 12th November

Thursday had a pattern cutting lesson, where we learnt how to do openings, facings and sleeves. The openings we learnt was where to place buttons and buttonholes on our pattern and with facings we learnt what a grown on facing is and how to draw it. After that we went onto plackets and then sleeves, which we converted the normal sleeve shape to become one suitable to make a gathered sleeve, for homework i have to do a cuffed sleeve pattern.


♥Tiffany♥

Illustration carrying on with label

In Illustration with steve we carried on working with our labels and logos, and started to add illustrations to them. I want mine to advertise dresses and to have a classy sort of feel, whilst being fun.

After i had drawn them i displayed them in a way i thought looked presentable.

♥Tiffany♥

Trainers and PPRD

Today we had to do illustrations of trainers. It was harder to trace round than garments. But i managed to get it the way i wanted it to be. After i had chosen the colours i was able to change them in a way that the colours will still go together. I enjoyed this lesson. And also learnt how to get patterns from the internet into my illustrations.





















PPRD
In todays PPRD lesson we were given these questions to answer:

• How much do you already know about fashion? What i already know about fashion is that it can change so quickly or can stay in trend for a while. I know that it can define us as a person and can show our personalities or how we are feeling. I also know that it is a very competitive market and so hard to become a designer where it is likely that 1% of students will become one. Fashion also includes everyone even if they don't realise it as you choose what you want to wear and can go by other people's thoughts.
• What do the clothes we wear say about us? The clothes we wear say about us is that we are wearing it for comfort as that just makes you feel good about yourself, we also wear what we wear to look good and to wear it to keep up with fashion. Clothes also show that we are wearing it for warmth.
• Does what we wear define us? No as this can sterotype people, and i think this can cause bullying.
• Who dictates fashion? Who dictates are trendspotters and us from what we buy and wear or create.
• Where does it start/and go? It can start by something wearing something that other people like and this can create a new trend or we go by what fashion designers have thought up.

We also were given the task to start a trend book, so any details or clothes we see we like we have to draw a quick sketch in a book, i quite like this idea as i always see clothes that people wear that i like.

I will also need to conduct a powerpoint presentation on New York (which my group choose) to present after christmas and then we have a Eco fashion debate for the 8th December where i am fighting for.

♥Tiffany♥

New Brief: Melting Pot

New brief today=] and it's called Melting Pot but is to do with different cultures and how designers get inspiration from there travels, after a morning of a presentation into the project i couldn't wait to get going, i tried to think about all these different places that would be interestings ones that i thought most of were; Africa, India and Russia. But i thought i'd research more till i actually decide what to do=]
I like India but have done a project on it before so would like to do something completely different. Russia i thought may be quite interesting, i would like to do places where the climate is cold, snowy, tundra sort of conditions=]
We also showed our fabric samples and lucky i asked if one of our tutors could help me indentify the samples=] Now i just have to find a nice note/sketchbook to present them in=]

♥Tiffany♥

Construction catch up day

Yesterday we had a catch up day luckily i didn't have that much to catch up on, so only had to redo two of my seam samples as i really wasn't happy with them, the first one i did was the overlocked both edges i had to redo it twice as i'm still not used to the overlocker, but got it in the end=]. The next one i did was the french seam on chiffon which i was dreading as it is such a hard material to work with, worse of all i had to cut it from the template which made it even more of a challenge however i got it in the end, the the seam definately turned out better than my first attempt=]
I managed to finish before 1230 so was allowed to go, nice early start to the weekend, the week had been very exhausting.

♥Tiffany♥

Finishing the Bodice

We put the sleeves on the bodice in todays lesson, but before we did that we finished the collar off with the strip of fabric that was cut on the bias. It was quite hard to get it curved round the neck but i got it to a satisfactory position=]
After that was done onto the sleeves, luckily i made both last lesson so didn't have to find time in the week to do them. We were only supposed to do just the one side and finish the other in our own time, but i found it easier to do them both at the same time as i could get into a sort of pattern then. I'm just so glad that i've got used to using the overlockers now as we only had a 1cm seam allowance and had to overlock in a circle. Then a straight stitch at the bottom of the bottom to avoid too much fraying.
We also managed to do a few hem samples, which was great to no and were pretty much easy except the blind stitch=]
I was soooo glad to finish my bodice, as now tomorrow i don't have much to do and am going to go over some of my samples i did in the first construction lesson=]=]

♥Tiffany♥

Illustrator

We had a completely different turn from what we'd done before, we started to create a label and logo, i decided to use my name as it sounds nice as a brand lol. I quite enjoyed this lesson as we were just left to get on with it.
Also managed to do a drawing from an image found on a website, i think this really helps to build my illustrator skills=]

♥Tiffany♥

Garment drawings- learning the ropes

We started to learn how to draw garment designs in illustrator, we started off with a basic T-shirt shape, it was quite hard to get the shape I wanted but got it in the end after editting for a while.

After that shape, Jamie made a handout where different parts of a shirt were on and we had to trace round these using illustrator and put them together to create the shirt=] I liked doing this=]

♥Tiffany♥

Fabric Sourcing in London

Got to go fabric sourcing in London, had a bit of a late start as some people were late but we finally got on our way. After a long coach journey we arrived in London and first stop was Goldhawk Road, this wasn't a road that was filled with all the fancy fabric shops but more like fabricland ones except there were quite a few and the fabric was cheap!! I didn't really like asking for samples/swatches here as the assistants did not seem friendly and you didn't want to stay there long, so after 45mins around these stores we headed towards Oxford Streets of course this made us want to go Shopping.
Once we found some fabric stores they were completely different from the other ones, the staff were much friendlier and didn't seem to mind helping.
Luckily this didn't take long and gave us enough time to do some SHOPPING=]=]
Had to go on the underground to get to the V&A Museum where we were getting picked back up from at 4:30.
A very tiring, but resourceful day=]

♥Tiffany♥