practice makes perfect!!!

For those who think it's easy to sketch lifelike figures, I beg to differ. I attended a 3 week fashion design course at FIT this summer and completed only 4 figures. The amount of time it took to design a 5 piece fashion collection shocked me! The outcome of my hard work thrilled me, but when I look back months later (like I'm doing right now), I consider all of the mistakes I made, scrutinizing my artwork like one of my kindergarden stick figures. I tend to doubt my ability to someday whip out a 3 piece collection in 30 minutes, like on Project Runway. I guess I'll have to wait and see... "Practice makes perfect"...

This picture shows the process of creating my own fashion croquis. The colorful one on the right is my final fashion body, which I chose after many fixes. Tracing paper was very helpful!

These are the flats I drew and the fabrics I chose. These are necessary because they give you a feel as to what the garments would actually look like if they were completed.

Our assignment consisted of drawing four figures in a destination collection. I chose Ireland because of my fetish with Irish rock bands and the musical, grunge culture there. I used my imagination since I have actually never been to Ireland...

~Word of the Day~

Rudimentary- (adj.) in the earliest stages of development; elementary

identically different...

Britt Towns