GUO PEI!!

A structured gold dress fit for Queen. Queen Nefertiti, that is.

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!!! I WOULD LOVE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR MY FMP!!!!

UWE BRISTOL!!

Okay, so didnt manage to go UWE Bristol today, but I am definately going on the 20th November, and from what I have heard its definately worth it. So cant wait!!!

Drawing

I feel like I went downhill towards the end of this lesson. I really like this team drawing we did the skeleton is far better than the first years, and foundation, but I'm a bit bias. Haha.

This is the section my team worked on. I worked on the arm at the bottom, but judging by this first picture you cant really tell what it is.

Here we began to put all the pieces together, and it looks quite good.

Then we tried to name all the bones in the body, and we did pretty well, if I do say so myself.

We then began to draw our life model Rupert, using black pen. We had to use a continous line, and I think this is what I struggle with. I dont like using pen to draw with, and I dont think continous line suits me.

TIMMY!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!
How cute is my cat. I had to put a picture of him on my blog, because I love him sooo much, and Sanah loves hearing my "Timmy" stories.
haha :)

FMP Idea???

I was sitting on the bus on the way to college, just you know in my own world, and it just came to me. What if I did my FMP, about dreams and how people percieve them as to be beatiful but can sometimes have a hidden meaning. I could get people to write down their dreams for me, in a sort of dream journal. It could be amazing!!!!!!!!!
I also want to make more than 4 garments, gotta push yourself, you know.
What do you think??

Drawing

I have loads of life drawing work to upload, and if i do say so myself, I feel it gets progressively better. I hope you agree. Here we were just drawing bones hanging from the ceiling, to get the basic techniques. There are also some images of the bones here aswell.

Here we began drwing a skeleton, to learn the basics of the human form.

Here we began drawing a live model named Rupert. Trying to get 3 drawings on one page taught us the importance of composition. Switching techniques very quickly is sooo hard, and I discovered I cant draw too good, with my left hand.

Here we picked one area to draw, and zoomed in on tone, using sticks of graphite.

Here we spent the whole 2 and a half hours focusing on one drawing. First mapping out the general shapes in pencil. Then bringing paint into it, on the darker areas, then the lightest areas. We then mixed lots of different shades, and filled in the mid-tones on the body. I think it looks pretty good.

Royal Blue

Its been a while since my last blog so I wanted to catch you up on my project. I decided to make the top half of my garment out of plastic. This came from the idea that Kosem Sultan was consumed by power and trapped in her own body, this led me to the idea of caterpillars turning into cocoons, and cages for holding animals. Some cages are made out of plastic. I had to go to Sutton Campus to create the plastic using different saws, such as a ban saw, and drills, to cut he shape of the plastic I wanted. Before this I had to make it out of cardboard to explain to them just how I wanted it to look, so I used this as my toile. To heat and bend the plastic into shape, I used a strip heater to bend each bend individually, and each took a few minutes, but it turned out quite good. NOw I just need to get the skirt looking as good.

Tutorial

Rights and Responsibilities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPoaRCIcwI

Royal Blue Designs

These are my designs for Royal Blue. Towards the end, I am going in a direction where shape is a very big part of it. As Kosem was consumd by power it made me think of a caterpillar turning into a cocoon, as it conmsumes the caterpillar, only Kosem doesnt become a butterfly.