Hello! As I mentioned some time ago I have a pause in sewing and do not have many running projects so far. But it does not mean that I do nothing. At the moment I am taking a course of fashion design in Fashion Design School. Recently I have completed first three months of a year course and would like to share my results with you.
I took me sometime to convince myself to start it, because fashion design means not only sewing and pattern making but also drawing and painting. Honestly, I have never considered myself as a person who can paint. Painting lessons in school time were a horror for me, I was pretty bad. Since then I never touched a pencil. However, I got these three months as a present and of course started it immediately.
I had to take a lot of time for painting tasks during the course, plus some external factors and honestly, I did not make it in three months, but longer. However, it does not matter for results.
Before starting the course I did not have any ideas how to draw a human figure, but of course tried and never actually succeeded. During the first weeks of the course I finally learn a theory about how to draw a human body…
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this is how I did it before
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first weeks of the course
and this is a results 3 month later.
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three months later
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[/one_third_last]It is not ideal, but I think progress is significant. Now I am fully convinced that everybody can learn it!
Except painting and drawing the course contains other lessons, for example about pattern making and how to create a collection. Of course not everything was so hard for me as drawing, I did not have problems with simple pattern making and moving darts, however, at the end of the third month we had to construct something more complicated like Tomoko Nakamichi style.
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from simple
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to more complicated
What else have I learn? I know now how to make collages. Here you can compare my first collage and two month later )))
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my first collage
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mood board Egypt
But the most fun is creating a collections, this also includes history of fashion. It is so exciting and inspiring to create dresses in different styles. And I have learned that fantasy can be trained and developed!
The entire course is for a year, I completed only a small part of it and I love this fascinating trip to a fashion design. if you are still skeptical that you can do something which you never done before – don’t be! Everything is possible!