Fashion!!!!!

Okay I haven't updated ye on my print elective yet but I wanted to start my fashion one! I started fashion on monday and decided to base my project on umbrellas! They are an everyday product with extraordinary drawing capabilities! using one umbrella I got loads of analytical drawings as the shape of the umbrella changed every time you opened it another inch or changed the direction you looked at it! Following some research I also found some crazy umbrellas of different shapes and sizes! I'll put some of them up on this for ye to see! On Tuesday we had some mannequin time with Pamela and a colour workshop with Liz! The mannquin time was brilliant I got to see how a flat pattern piece could totally transform when moulded and placed on the mannequin in different ways! The colour workshop was loads of fun too! Colour stories are really fun to make while also being beneficial to the design process! Today we are doing a drawing workshop with Phillipa, we are learning how to draw the important curves and creases in fabric through line drawing and different materials to make our sketchbook drawings more realistic and interesting. After lunch we are photocopying and collaging shapes and colours onto the drawings we did earlier! It should be fun! Loving fashion, Nicole
P.S I'm only putting up a few of the mannequin pictures, there's far too many it'd fill up the internet!:-P!

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Ok well we're on our Christmas break now but I still hope to do a little bit of college work if I can! As I said last week I have the photos of my work all ready to go up so I'll upload them now! Sorry if it takes up piles of space on the dashboard! Update ye again soon!

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Hey well I am still going with the project! I'm having fun with it! This week I did a collage of Connemara and a line drawing and some prints with it that I can compare and contrast to the city ones. This is really interesting as the shapes, colour and textures in each are completely different! I played around with photoshop too and got some cool results of country scenes so i might do the same to city scenes and see what happens! One of my collages didnt join up perfectly but I like it like that so I think I will paint in between and on the photos so the piece is half imaginary! I also need to work with more 3D and texture pieces and also more analytical drawing so that's what I hope to move on with this week! I'm thinking of making city shapes out of country textures and country images out of city textures! I think this could be really interesting! I also hope to have pictures up on this next week of everything I've done so far! Type soon!