Valentino dress

Today, in my CAD for fashion class, I tried using a drawing tablet for the first time! I've wanted to get one of those for a long time, but the good ones are usually very expensive. Now that I've tried one, I am definitely going to buy one soon. It's so different from drawing with the computer mouse!

Last week, we went to the Valentino exhibition, and then we were told to find a dress that we liked, so that we could draw it in this class. This is the dress that I chose, and underneath is my first attempt to draw on a tablet:

          

I'm gonna need to practice more, but it's a start!

Tribe shoot

Today, we got to do a photo shoot in the school's photo studio, with a professional photographer. For this photo shoot, we had to do our own interpretation on a tribe that we had been researching. I used this picture, from an African tribe called Afar, as my inspiration:

Then for the photo shoot, my friend Michelle were my model, and for the headpieces she is wearing I used old belts, chains, pearls and wire. Here's the result: