Working with Photoshop.

Well apparently this blog is getting marked now, thanks for telling me!!!! So to add marks and stuff i have decided to show everyone how amazing (shite) i am at photoshop Don’t worry however, it is not as bad as my sewing.

So here are a few print screens

So here i am messing about with filters and stuff, this is me trying to work to the brief of ‘Brush Strokes’ so i have added a brush stroke background and put a filter on the picture of Florence of Dark Brush strokes.

Just found beast tool ’010! The magic eraser tool, it has just rubbed out an entires background wherever i click and it’s very bloody accuarate! I could’ve saved so much time if i’d have know about this before!

And i’ve just found a good way to add like cool backgrounds, liquify!

LOOK:

OOOOH, pattern maker (: this is cool. So you are probably wondering why the hell i am doing these wild and wonderful things? Well you see dear reader, i am learning and getting to grips with photoshop

Alright alright, i will give it up!

LATERZZZZZZ xo

iya!

So apparently my teachers are gonna be checking this blog, no point if i do say so myself! So anyway, yeah did my sashiko project and stuff , which was crap (i was gonna say a ruder word but i thought i might get told off!) Now i have to do my actual collection for noa noa, which is a proper crap shop from like denmark or summat; why can’t they choose like topshop or something? I just want an outfit that shows my personality and instead i’m designing a gypsy inspired collection for old women my life sucks. At least i can put my time into making this versace dress, coz that’s gonna be something that i actually enjoy. The dress is really hard to make, well i’ve made like the top half already but theres got to be ruffles and stuffand i have a dart in the wrong place which sucks. I just don’t know how to do owt on it; sometmes i wonder when i am going to recieve the sewing skillz that i should have got from my mother. Also random input here but i proper wanna go to Central St Martins!!!! It looks proper amazing, but i know that only decent people can get in, just a random farflung dream of mine. Also RIP Alexander McQueen, i didn’t even like you actually, your designs are shite, but i guess you’ll be a loss to the fashion world and one day i might even thank you for inspiration who knows?  Ahhh so back to this collection, my group decided to base it on gypsies, not like crap gypsies, like decent ones that like tell fotunes and stuff, like in those old wagons. Noa Noa is for old women, actually i can’t see my mother wearing it so lets say upper class old women, those who like to think they’re young, but really they’re not. So yeah my fashion career is not on the up really, in fact i am dreading the day i have to make this outfit to go down the catwalk; i don’t think anyone actually realises how shite i am at sewing!!

New year, new start.

So i was able to hand everything in on time and completed and i’m very proud of myself! The denim shirt was auch a success in my eyes, coz i was able to do the collar, the cuff and the plackets, stitching in a straight line; i even managed to put press studs on it, making it look abit more pro

So new year, new start, especially with the new breif we’ve been given: Sashiko textiles. Sashiko is another term for pretection and the prints usually found on the garments are elaborate and mean things, sich as protection or diamonds for importance. I went to York Art gallery, but i didn’t really get a massive amount of inspiration from the exhibition, just one patchwork kimono, so i decided to delve into patchwork a little bit, to get a feel for texture and then add some designs, using batik and applique.
So there you have it; i’m very busy with my project right now, trying to get 10 design developments done and dusted ready for semester 2

I’m bricking it for my mark for last term, eeeek!

Upd8 m8888888 ;)

So my first collection has been handed in, what an achievement! I’m well proud of myself. 40 designs done and dusted. I actually rock dudeeeeee! On the minus side i have my denim shirt to do and even though i was able to stitch in a straight line last week, i did my entire placket wrong. I am a douche sometimes

Remember deadline: 17th December for 2 pages of denim research in techical notebook grrrrrrr.

I made a sleeeeeeeeeve!

Problem? It doesn’t fit.
Moral of the story? When moulage-ing, be wider with the fashion tape!

So for next Tuesday i have to bring all my patterns for the oversized shirt: the collar, the cuff, the front, the back and the sleeve.
Problem? I haven’t got a collar pattern!
Moral of the story? Don’t be ill on tuesdays!

Peace out! xo

Design Development :D

So, after ageeeeeees doing my sketchbook, i finally started my design developments and i must say it’s pretty hardcore! 20 eveningwear and 20 workwear, just thinking about it gives me the sweats I’m happy to say that i’m going well on these currently and i do enjoy having access to the materials cupboard, it’s like heaven in there!
For my inspiration i had to look up types of tartan. The ‘Jackson’ tartan of my ancestors is purple and navy with yellow, but i don’t want that one so sorry Jacko Clan, the dream’s over I have instead chosen 2 others, but which one i will use is still to be decided.

The choices are McGregor Modern;

Or McDonald of The Isles:

I just love the classic red, green and black tartans

Wish me luck on finishing my designs!
xo

Tartan, someone start up the bagpipes! Oh and add some Dior while we’re here then.

Research has had to be started for my current design sketchbook and i had to choose some inspiration. Me being me, i had to have 2 research pieces so i decided on tartan (i’m half scottish) and Christian Dior (whatta guy!)
My woman is Frances, an extremely fashionable cosmetic surgeon. She likes black, fashion and dresses to suit her clients, some of whom will be celebrities or people that are very respectable. She doesn’t like the generic ‘white coat’ that doctors wear either. My response to this was that she must like designer names, so i chose Dior as his clothes suit the figure of a woman and he is known for his quality garments and nipped in waist, something which i knew Frances would be into. The tartan idea came from nowhere really. I knew i needed to combine Dior with something, but i didn’t know what. Then, in pops Grandma Berry, my Scottish Grandmother saying silly Scottish things such as ‘Nikkieeeeeee in my dayyyy we didn’t use a page a design, we used the same sheet of paper for a year.’ She was also wearing a kilt, so i though TARTAN, that is my other design point.

Currently, the designs are going well i’m pleased to say i got complimented for my illustartion skillzzzz the other day, what an ego boost! Dior is proving to be an amazing bit of inspiration and the tartan ideas never end. I’ll keep you posted on what’s going on and scan a few images in when they are finished.

xo

At the Moulin Rougeeeeeeeeee. Okay Moulage then :|

This week was PROPER good, well when we did moulage it was, the rest was meh.

So, Moulage means making a pattern from a mannequin. So we made a simple bodice block using moulage and it was great. Not only did i look proper proffesional with my pins and my woman, but i got to learn a valuable skill and have fun with fashion tape
What you do is only use one side of the front and one side of the back coz when you put it down on pattern paper you can just write ‘cut on the fold’ or ‘cut 2′ and it will make a full bodice. so we put fashion tape round the armhole, up the centre front, up the centre back, down the side seam and 4 darts. The darts were front breast or ‘point of prominence’, front waist; back shoulder and back waist. We pinned the material in place and pinned it, then drew around the whole thing, cut it out and transfered to some dot and cross. That was my amazing lesson in making a bodice from my woman!

Moulin Rouge= amazingggggg!; Moulage= even better!

xo

Skillz on Photoshop ;)

So, i am OBSESSED with Chanel, like more than i’m obsessed with cheesestrings, but less obsessed than i am with Gary Barlow. So, anyway, i have managed to extend my skillage on Photoshop
I have taken the skills i had before but made them even better. I chose to use Nicole Kidman because she is amazing, not only in the way she never uses her beauty in a bad way, for the fact that she is a proper woman, not like some of the younger actresses we see today. I also adored her Chanel No5 advert, it is by far the most amazing advert i have seen to date.

So, here are a few screenshots from last week and my final product:

The polyagonal lasoo tool is much better to cut out an image thean erasing the background and it’s also much quicker so in future it will be one of my main tools to use. I also learnt this week how to make an image bigger, not like zooming in bigger, just making the pixels bigger and therefore altering the size to make it a bigger version of the original picture.

So there we have it- i’m getting much better at Photoshop, but i have to say i owe alot of it to my boyfriend, he was the one who was able to sit me down and had the patience to keep repeating himself when i didn’t know what was happening!

xo

Photoshop, manufacturing specs + making a shirt :)

So last week, i did exactly that: make a shirt, write a manufacturing specification and learnt a few things on photoshop. Hmmmm, so what have i learnt i hear you asking. Well, alot of things. On photoshop i learnt how to erase a background and move an object to another space and how to apply different effects to pictures such as neon glow and using different paintbrush effects.

Here is what i ended with:

Personally, i thought it was a great first attempt, including things i love: Agyness Deyn, Fearne Cotton and Karl Lagerfeld design

In garment construction i started making a oversized shirt from a pattern block. To make it a bit harder for us, we were asked to measure the front buttonhole panels, the chest line and the waist line ourselves. Even harder still, we had to make sleeves for the shirt using a set of instructions, a patternmaster and the pattern for our front and back. Of course i made mistakes and have got only a tiny bit of rubber left, but i succeeded in making my sleeve, which i’m really proud of!

I also have started making a garment specification, using a denim dress i have. We have to do a working drawing, describe the garment in extreme detail, iclude all the topstitching and make samples. Well, i have to make samples, because my dress has no lining, so to make my manufacturing spec as long as my classmates i have to do other things. Currently i am doing samples from the vent at the back using elastic in the spool and i am also doing some examples of piping which my dress has a lot of!

So this week has a lot of things going on and with half term only 2 weeks away, i think i have my work cut out!

xo