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.

Final Theme

I realise I must have changed my theme a million times by now, but this is my final theme. This is Kosem Sultan. She was born (under the name Anastasia) and raised by a priest in Tinos, Greece. When she was a young girl, Ottoman Pirates came and raided her home town, and took many of the healthy villagers away to be sold into slavery and the young girls to be concubines in Constantipole (now Istanbul). Many saw the life of a concubine to be better than their daily lives, but only if you could enter the harem, of the current Sultan. Kosem entered he harem of Ahmed I, due to her beauty and grace. The Sultan took a shine to her, and eventually made her, his wife. When he died in 1617 she was transferred to the old palce, but she was consumed by the power she wanted more of it. She got her wish when in 1623 her son Murad IV, came to the throne but as he was still a minor the power came to Kosem and she became the first of two women in history who ruled the Ottoman Empire officially and alone.Murad IV also craved the power and feared his brothers might take the throne from him, so he ordered the deathof his brothers. Ibrahim I was spared possibly because Kosem saved him, or Murad IV thought he was too unstable to be a threat. When Ibrahim I entered the throne in 1640 he was too unstable to rule alone so Kosem still had the power, and she loved it. However Kosem knew that eventually Ibrahim I would be disposed of and she would have no heirs to the throne left, so she persuaded her son to find a woman and have a son. The son was born and named Mehmed IV, and at the right time she presented him to the Divan and said "Here he is! See what you can do with him!". The problem was Mehmed IV's mother Turhan Hatice. She craved the power that Kosem had, and Kosem knew that she would have to find a replacement for Mehmed IV, with a more quiet mother. However Turhan caught news of the plot and decided to have Kosem killed. Kosem stuffed jewels in her pockets and ran thruogh the maze of the harem, and hid in a small cabinet, to hide form the Janissaries (Turkish Soldiers). Her skirt got caught in the door of the cabinet and she was spotted. They pulled herout, tore her clothes, stole her jewels, and then strangled her with a curtain. Then they took her lifeless body outside for all soldiers to see. Alot of poeple mourned for days and sometimes weeks.Turkish curtain, used to kill Kosem.

She was the most powerful woman ever in Ottoman history.