Up to reading week

We have broken up for reading week today and I've had a really good week, the last week. On the Wednesday i had my drawing session which i found really useful, i made so many drawings with many different media and i think i progressed so much just in the one session.

The Friday session of that week i had more of a go on the industrial sewing machines, doing fabric samples and even two zip samples which came out pretty good, i also mounted them into my technical file. I did quite a few seams samples, and some that i had never seen or tried out before, so it will be good to look back in the folder and refer to them if i ever think i need a different seam for a garment. 

This Monday i got quite a lot out of the critical studies lesson, more so than any other weeks, Marcel explained what we had to do in our presentations a bit more and is even giving us a tutorial session the week before the deadline, i do have a lot to work on though in this area which will take up a fair amount of private study time.

The Tuesday session went well too, we had the whole day to just carry on with our sketch book and sample work, we also got a twenty minute tutorial to help and guide us with what we were doing, i got some advice from Ian, he said i should look at the word 'layers' more literally, like layers on an onion or ozone layers which i think is some good advice as i did seem to be in a bit of a rut concentrating on fabric and garment layers too much. 

On Wednesday we continued with our drawing session in the morning, i got a few more good drawings done which will all go to my final collection, in the afternoon session we had a three hour photoshop lesson, i learnt so much from this one session i feel a lot more confident when using photoshop now and feel i might be able to create a few good prints now which will also go in my final collection, another thing that i need to work on in my private study time.

Today's session i think i got the most work done than any other session this week, i was working with Hugo on a garment from a magazine cutting, i designed the pattern using the bodice blocks we made the previous Friday, i used the cutting and slashing technique a lot and i think it will turn out a lot like the garment photo i am working from, i think i am most excited about this project so far as the results are fast and the stages are easy to follow.