Graduate Fashion Portfolio - Mood Board.

This took me way longer than it should of done, that's life i guess.

Digital print baby.

This has taken me 2 days, which is ridiculous but i am happy with the outcome and it should look ace on my dress. Imagine it BIG!!! Illustration to follow.

Styyyyyyyyyyyyyyling

We took some pictures, they're awesome! Hopefully it'll be catwalk good.

Exciting days, mad weekends and lack of time.

So as always though I said i'd update with something that resembles regularity this may have swiftly fallen in to the realm of lies and foul calumnies.
In short here's a quick rundown of the past week. I spent at least 2 days DYING...fabric. Trying to colour match my yarn, its horrible, my hands feel like someone dipped them in acid and then peed on them to make them feel better. All in all it was a good learning curve but i am nowhere near being able to make a sexy pair of orange shorts because the orange i have is not so much sexy...as nasty and no one wants nasty orange shorts skipping down the run way to the drum and bass remix of the Russian National Anthem.
Last week i also had a crit, all in all went well. they decided that one of my jumpers needs to not be a jumper so much of a jersey crop dress with a grown on roll neck. Once i get my head round the concept I'll post a drawing with the foxy digital print added.

• I need to work on my working drawings. They look rubbish.
• I need to do a mood board to someone (Robbie?!?!?!)>
• I need to not waste my weekends staying up till 6am. How ever fun the dancing and conversation engaging.
• Has anyone ever read Lorna Doone? Its good book, one of my favourite a long with Jamaica Inn.

Mr Joe Collins of http://joecollinsanimation.blogspot.com/ also dropped me a link to a lovely photo shoot which is lovely and Russian and fits in really well with my collection. I love the styling.
Check it out below!





You can find the rest here http://community.livejournal.com/noirfacade/261726.html#cutid1

Maybe its been too long...

I did state that this blog would be both poorly maintained and infrequently updated but as per request of a few people i thought i throw some stuff out just so you can see whats been going on.
The new project (and by new i mean old) is like constructivism meets army surplus, and because i am a knit fiend, its mostly just going to be big jumpers! So here are some quick mock ups of some possible intarsia and fair isle designs.

Sketch Up!

Been awhile since my last post due to being well busy with finishing up uni and moving house :o but I decided to have a brief chat about the general awesomeness of Sketch Up.
Sketch Up is another one of them google things and unsurprisingly it is pretty damn cool. Its 3d for idiots. Once you get to grips with the tools everything is easy. I say this because I am a pen and paper kind of gal, CAD tends to leave me in a quivering wreck on the floor yanking out my hair and screaming curses at god about why anyone would make such a horrific piece of software and expect those of us who are not computer minded to use with it.
Anyway, the reason i started my whole sketch up thing is because someone directed me towards these Tetris Shelves and because I'm cheap and I really, really like building stuff I kind of set my heart on it for a summer project. So back to sketch up, I tried drawing, I'm pretty good at thinking in 3d but it turned out that drawing tetris pieces is kind of hard so I decided to try something new and it turns out that sketch up was the answer. I can now see exactly how many pieces of wood i need, how long they need to be and it is awesome. All I need to do now is convince my Dad that letting me use a saw would be a good idea and if I want to stain the blocks different colours.

Just in case you didnt know...

I well like dinosaurs



and I cleaned my room

p.s click the photo for full view.