Recovering from Yesterday..

Tuesday..was just another start of a whole new project

＜♡＞We started another project with Karen of making an object this time..

＜✴︎＞Using our black and white paint to make a gray scale..didn't think this would be so hard

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We didn't do much today because Karen knew we needed to recover from that big run way show we had yesterday so we started to think of ideas and were shown examples from the past. 

・I first thought of doing shoes that were "mermaid" themed and add some sea shells and coral but i felt that it was too simple and i wanted to make somehing that i could and would want to wear so i had ahard time deciding whatt i wanted to do..

・So today I couldnt do much.. but just sit there and stare at my computer screen.

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In Paul's class today , we made (tried making ) a gray scale by balancing out the black　and white paints.

・I thought it would be easy... I was totally wrong. It took me the whole class to just get one color right..

・At home I struggled getting the colors right because Paul wasn't here to check it for me but I made a ton of swatches and attempted to get the colors okay but wasn't so satisfied with them. But pat on the back for me because I didn't search on the internet even once to see if the colors were right.

Monday Funday? No...

Today was a big day.. our fashion show..

＜♡＞With Karen we did the full on run way show of our garments made of unusual materials

＜✴︎＞In the morning we went to the Cooper Hewitt museum

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In love with the colors and simpleness of these random objects

・Went to the Cooper Hewitt museum in the morning and loved all the weird objects and designs and also how they displayed the things there. Below are some of the designs that I liked most. I kind of wished I came here before we designed our garments because there were so many things that were made from really weird materials and looked beautiful..

These 3D printed out glass shapes were fun to watch

love the metallic on metallic

These are accessories made out of stones and sponges the geometric shapes grabbed my attention and also was surprised to know that this huge thing was something that you put around your neck and wrists

It looks as if youre taking a walk I the park but then when you zoom out its a tiny sculpture of a big park..

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Today was our big day. the fashion show.

・everyone was having a panic attack because clothes weren't fitting and they didn't really think about how the garment would look on an actual human being.

・But it turned out to be amazing and the models looked gorgeous in the outfits.

Especially our model Sissi :))

It was a great experience I hope they do it again next year because i would totally come and watch

Third and Final Day of our making of the garment

FINALLY  FRIDAY!!!

♡In Karens class, Friday was our last day to finish up our garment and we still hadn't thought about what to do with the top...

✴︎In Pauls class we made black and white designs in small squares and later combined a bunch of the same designs to make one big patterned design (it is hard to explain you can see it in the pictures below)

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WE CUT THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE DRESS OFF. It wasn't an easy thing to watch... we all agreed that we shouldn't really show the use of the show curtain fabric in the garment and it also seemed like it would take forever to finish putting the feathers on so we decided that we should cut the bottom half of our dress off.  The sketch on the left side is an original sketch of Sissy, one of our group mates, and used that as a reference to make the bottom of our dress work out.  

・we already had some newspaper that we hadn't used so we used the pages and curled them up, stuck them on to create the "fin" of the mermaid dress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ・Taking an advice from Karen, we decided that we should color the rims of the plastic cup lids to bring out the uniqueness off it. At first we got silver paint and painted the lids silver to match the silver metal of the shower curtain, but then realised that we couldn't really see the details and felt that it was better to paint it black.  It looked 10times better and it added a great accent to our dress. So now what do we do with our top...?

・We tried many things like using news paper and making it a tube top to match with the bottoms but the problem with this was that it looked dull from far away. Then we tried adding the silver metal loop from the shower curtain and added it to the middle it looked okay.. then we tried trash bags that were laying on the floor... ehh.. then the left over feathers.. ehh..

・Friday's class was over at this point so we needed to continue on the weekends.. and.. this is what we came up with at the end! OUR FINAL LOOK!

simple top but make the details stand out and look put together!

#what we need to do next.. our fashion show!!! we have to put the dresses on a human being now..!!! excited but nervous at the same time!!

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In Pauls class today..

・We made two by two inch squares and designed them using simple shapes

・Then made 4 of the same ones, 4 of the opposite color ones, 4 mirrored ones , then 4 of the mirrored opposite colored ones...took forever

・using the 16 small squares we arranged them however we wanted to  create one big four by four inch square.

・I thought this processes of arranging the squares wouldn't take me long but it actually took me forever to get them to look the way I wanted them to look..

・Then took me an extra 5 bajillion hours on drawing clean lines and measuring everything out nicely with black paint on a nicer sheet of paper... but it turned out pretty good! 

Second Day of the Project

                                     Thursday, we officially grabbed our materials and started creating.

♡　In my class was with Karen,  we started adding some materials to our dress and realized some mistakes..
✴︎　In the afternoon with Paul, we learned about how to drastically draw attention to something by using the spacing of black and white

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Today we got the help of Karen to come up with a great idea of using plastic cup lids to create the look of our scale look. but then we also realized some mistakes... we were suppose to create a look with materials you wouldn't usually use for a dress but we had used a shower curtain with a cotton material so we needed to think about ways to change our design to fit the expectations...

・adding our cup lids to our dress

(we realized that you couldn't really see the amazing layers of the cup lids because of the white background so we some how need to change that)

 ・thinking about the shape and length of the dress

(we had an opening in the back so tried to see if it looked good as a slit in the front? but no.. it was also loosing its mermaid look in the front side too.. we might need to change the shape?)

・ended the class with putting feathers at the bottom of the dress

(might take forever to put the feathers on.. any other ideas?)

#next class we need to ...

think about redesigning a bit to reach first follow the directions and expectations of the project, should make the scale part of the dress stand out more, what should we do with the top??

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Today in class we had a male model to draw an out line of  and also had to include add few elements in the back ground in pencil. Then using black paint, painted the back ground to bring out the elements and symbols in the drawing. Through this we learned about how the drawings are organized and balanced out using the spacings of each elements in the drawings. Showing the main point of the drawing through spacing also means that you are bringing the main object to the fore ground and everything in the back ground of the painting. It is not just about how neat you draw the artwork but also about how you organize and place the elements too. 

Our first official class

 Wednesday, we officially grabbed our materials and started creating.

♡　In my class was with Karen,  we got in our groups and actually started to put the dress together
✴︎　In the afternoon with Paul, I drew my first figure drawing with a person posing in front of me

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We all agreed on Monday that we want to make a gown with some kind of light up twist to it, like the one Claire Danes wore to the Met Gala. (picture on the left) Then we had to think of a way to create the gown with some kind of unusual material. Something we wouldn't usually do not use for a dress.

On Tuesday at the MET we got inspired by the beautiful gowns that we saw and decided that we want to use metal or plastic materials to make the fish scale look. (pictures on the right) We also thought that these materials will work to make the lights that we were planning to put inside the dress, shine and sparkle.

On the way back, we remembered that we also needed to agree on some kind of dress shape and base material to create the look.


We looked up some ideas and decided we would like a mermaid shape to compliment the curves of the  human body and a flare with feathers at the bottom half of the dress (←example ) to create a elegant look with the scales going down the middle part of the body.
It was a long day and we were tired but we decided to go to Bed Bath and beyond after we were dismissed to find some pillows with the feathers in them,  a shower curtain for the base of the dress, and some fairy lights.　　　　　                                  

←close to what we were thinking about but also with scales going down the middle of the body and the lights at the bottom.

・Wednesday's Process・

     ・used the shower curtain rings for an off the shoulder look and the base of the top

     ・made the rest of the fabric the bottom half of our piece and used some hot glue gun to pinch the fabric to make a mermaid, fin type of shape.

 

＃next class we need to...

gather some cans and plastic bottles for the fins and add the feathers , lights on the bottoms

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 In the afternoon we did some speed sketching of a woman's body. I like to draw realistic figures so it was a great practice for me and I also got to learn a lot about the different movements of the human body. It was important to use long lines to create the sketch instead of small dashes because one, it will take forever and two, it is better to use long curving lines to make smooth shapes of the body.

I realised from this class that I actually did the assignment to draw the shape of our hands with a background seriously wrong. I need to redo it. 

My First Trip to The Metropolitan Museum

     It was my first experience going to The Metropolitan Museum today and saw many excellent examples of different ways of looking at the human body structure.

My favorite part was seeing the beautiful gowns in the "fashion in the age of technology" exhibition. I saw pieces that used interesting techniques to grab the viewers attention. The first beautiful gown that you see at the entrance of the exhibition is a great example of just that.

It uses :
-many little pieces and details which makes the viewer not get bored of seeing the dress.
-making the dress its self very simple to emphasize on the beautiful  beaded cape in the back

          Next we took a trip to see the exhibition of greek and rome statues and there,we did a few sketches to see how the human body actually looks with a little bit of motion. This helped me think about how to  shape the dresses and clothes to compliment the shape and motion of the human body.


Amours which do, compliment the shape of the human body very well, used many curves and many different pieces to fit the shape well. With this, I realized that when a clothing is too fitted to the human body,
-you have to make sure the material is adjusted to move with the human motion in order to make  something wearable.

 But then it also doesn't have to look like an armour, that just looks like a wearable version of your body.  The best clothing are extra ordinary and a little out side the box.

The mask below does not look like the face of one of the statues in the greek and roman exhibition but it sure does still look like a face. I feel it is the same thing with fashion too. It doesn't have to look a certain way to call it a piece of clothing.





With these ideas that i got from visiting, I would like to work the ideas into my future projects with designing and making clothing.

Had a great day at the MET. Learned lots of new things.