First day

A dtawing I did while sitting here in my DORM! Its nice being able to say that.

starting over!

Just wanted to sya, I know its been  while, I have been a very bad blogger. (Shame on me!) I wanted to say that starting over! Ill still be the same just... revamping! :)

Almost There...

OK, so I could go and say that I've been busy and blah, blah, blah, but I say that all the time! So lets get to it!

Prom is almost here (one week away) and after seeing my dress and what it looks like it really feels like my design has come to life. It'll be great when I can sew it myself someday!

Last thing to add I am now officially an incoming freshman of -drum roll- Virginia Commonwealth University or VCU! I'm extremely excited and I hope I can keep this blog as I go through college so I can show how much I change over the years.

P.S. I will upload something! I cant promise when but I will!

Some pieces...

Sooo...., here are a few pieces that have been done over the course of my absence, that I'm really excited about! First is my prom dress:

This is the dress that I will be wearing to prom, I designed it and my cousin Xavier (Who is the best!) is making it for me. This dress I've been thinking of ever since I started thinking seriously of prom. Also after seeing, can't-remember-her-name, in a mermaid dress at the Oscars, I wanted that dress. Its so sleek.

This was my mid-term assignment that I was really happy about, It just shows that my style has changed so much. this isn't a full fashion piece like my others but, the whole point of this one was to incorporate how I draw fabric and my love of the 18th century look.

So these are just a few of the many that I've drawn, but I have taken a break on the fashion pieces because I'm not drilling out so many for my college portfolio! Although if you ever want to see anything different from me it's all on here: DeviantArt

Finally!

I feel bad that I've been gone for forever but school, scholarships and A.P Classes have been keeping me busy! In other news though, I've now been accepted to all three of my schools that I applied to, Virginia Commonwealth, Drexel and Cazenovia. So right now I'm in the decision making process.

My computer was acting up so it has been gone for a while but now it is back and I'm ready to start uploading again! I also just finished a peice in A.P. Art that I like so I'll be sure to upload that too.

Yaaay to me finally being back on the computer!

I'm Here Again

So as you can see by the fact that I haven't posted anything in probably a month, I've been extremely busy! I've been building portfolios, doing all of that college preparation junk and with all that work, I've now been accepted into Cazenovia and Virginia Commonwealth University! So with that, here's all of what I haven't loaded up with in that span of time:
     

The center and one on the right were added to my portfolio, I really enjoyed drawing the cheetah print on the dress and now I sorta want some piece of clothing cheetah print. Although when it comes to cheetah print you cant go over board... or you'll look like you killed a pack of cheetah.

The lest one is not my favorite but I do like when people turn the nerd look cool, whether its the glasses or adding a nice bow tie. Speaking of bow ties...

That center look was inspired by just a bow tie and a little inspiration from the sartorialist.This also makes me feel like I really need a bow tie...

So that's all for right now, BUT, I will try to be more consistent with uploading!

Nothing Much to Say....

There truely is nothing much to say. I have finelly sent my application in to VCU, so now the three main schools I'm looking at now have my application, however I am still not done my portfolio!

I know I should have started forever ago, but, It's hard to know what should be put in one ecspecially when you are your own worst enemy. Either way this is the latest bit of designs I've done:

 This design was about to be added to my portfolio, yet, I didn't like it in there. It doesn't feel like it shows what I'm about so this is in the trash, and on here for you to see! 

Other Websites

This is a real quick post but here are the other things I do when I'm not sketching out designs!

DeviantART

Tegaki E

Just wanted to share the other site I go wandering around...

Just a few hoopskirts...

This was my first of the small series I created of 18^th century clothing with a twist. I’ve always loved clothing like this, as you can see by the many posts I do with designs or ideas like this, however, this one feels just a bit different. I don’t know if it’s the way that I drew it this time that makes me like it or the fact that this looks like a completely different style compared to how I’m usually drawing.

Now that I had all these ideas stuck in my head after drawing the first one I then decided to make a whole series of these sweet little ladies that I had in my head. I really can’t call it a series considering there are only three, but I’ve never done pieces that all relate in some way like this and are all produced from the same idea. Usually what happens when I get this crazy idea to do another one like it, the next one turns out crappy…

Last but not least is the last one. Although I want to make another one, I feel like it won’t turn out the way I want because these have been produced because of inspiration not just because I felt like doing another one.

I think in all the whole inspiration behind these was my love for drawing these type of clothing and then giving it a somewhat modern twist with the legs showing. Also I had the legs showing because you have to wonder, why can a women have all her ‘breast’ hanging out of her blouse but dare she show some ankles!

I guess I just wanted to make it the more scandalous!

Street-wear

When doing these two I was more of trying to experiment with: one the paint and two drawing my designs out and trying to draw different things.


This is what I mean by the whole street-wear thing. I love dressing and drawing people in skirts, dressy blouses and in a generally classy air so this is partly, not new, but a switch in what I’ve been drawing. It probably has to do with the inspiration at the time.

My music to the movies I watch inspire me greatly so because I was watching Nine, right now I want to draw everything that’s related to Italy in the 60’s… I’m in love with Italy…

New Year!

Happy New Year!

Good God it’s hard to believe that where in the year 2011, my graduation year! It’s too much to take, and with a new year comes the final crack down! Time to get everything done, like college applications and portfolios for some… -cough, cough- and also time to get caught up, that’s why I’m going to dump a whole bunch of artwork right now!

This one I did in art one day, I truthfully am very iffy on this one when it comes to submitting this in a portfolio, it’s much more detailed but I don’t think it truly shows all that I can do, especially since my strong point with designing seems to be painting. It would probably just look better painted… maybe, I don’t know….

I’m also thinking this will be my leaning for street-wear because anytime I draw something that’s anything that someone would actually wear on the street it looks like this, or you could say leans this way. The whole inspiration basically behind this one was my love for the rocker-ish, military look. I was in love with military jackets… I was so happy when I finally got one….

I always go through phases of things I want, whether it’s anything thing the color blue, or a certain style of clothing; like how through the whole summer I wanted boat neck type shirts and anything striped.



Old Ideas

These are a few ideas I had when I was at the beginning stages of trying to build my fashion portfolio, these ideas are old and I'm probably going to forget about all of them because now they look awful to me.

So coming up with an idea for a portfolio for a college is extremely hard. It's not that I don't have ideas, I have plenty of them, its the fact that I am a perfectionist and when you're a perfectionist and any idea that you make is crap in your head, it makes you nervous on submitting a portfolio to a school.

This one above, is me and my desire to be a stereotypical french men came out in this design. I fully think I've hit on something that will express me, stripes. I love stripes almost to a fault, and if you didn't notice many of my designs, especially newer ones involve stripes.

Now this above, I don't know... I believe that I was drawing this in AP art when I was out of ideas. This was me just using colors I liked at the time and trying to make a little bit more of a rougher look, that I think I failed at...

And I forgot to say, Have a happy, wonderful, very Merry Christmas!

Strictly Business....

For a while I was on a kick with drawing business suits and this is an example of it. I was also having fun playing with a very androgynous look when it came to women suits, whether broad shoulders or the colors I used . This one was me just being artistic with it and experimenting with colors when it comes to painting.

On the flip side I still like to do suits with a more feinine take by having the blazer cut in at the waist and flaring out just a bit,(it looks better on paper...)

Whether this is a male or a female, I don't know...

Sketching...

I have been sick since Thanksgiving, I know horrible time to be sick! So while not eating the wonderful sweet potato pie, baked macaroni, greens, ham and turkey, I drew a few designs. this will be the only one you'll be seeing cause I hated the other...

This is pretty much me trying to sketch out ideas for my own fall collection, I've been sketching out designs for coats like crazy, I'm pretty sure thouh that its because of the dropping of the tempature.

This one was a random one and makes me wish for spring and summer... Every now and then I like to do these bohemian-indie-whatever else it brings to you designs. I love mathing around patterns and colors.

Rue Paul Inspires Me...?

So a friend of mine has me hooked on Rue Pauls Drag U. I have always gone against reality shows like this, especially ridiculous things like this. I dont like reality T.V. have always hated it, however.... I now really like, I mean really like(I'm avoiding using "love") Drag U.

I dont know if its the exaggeration if every single thing on their body, or maybe that they love being fabulous(Who doesnt!) or the fact that most of them are more feminine than actual women...

Besides that, this is what you have after sitting watching Drag U with a classmate every Art period.

I drew this harping on exaggeration and sexyness of being a Drag Queen. Is that weird to associate men dressing as women with sexyness?

Forgive the horrible scanning, the picture was too big...

French Inspiration

I'm in love with French culture most notably, as seen by my profile, Marie Antoinette. Besides her helping with leading France into turmoil and all the many things that ensued(I'm assuming that you know from history class...)

I dont believe this is Marie Antoinette but this little sketch was inspired by my love for 17th-18th century clothing. The designs were so detailed and intircate and the craftsmenship was amazing. I am truely in love with the clothes back then.

And as you can see just by this small sketch it only takes me a few minutes to start rambling about this topic...

Been gone for a while…

I've been crazy busy for a while with college stuff, senior year, homework and everything else that involves the stressful, expensive, busy time that's known as senior year. However I have been sketching to my heart's content in between that and deciding on the future fashion school that I may be considering. Either way, I'm back and for these next few post I'm pretty much going to be posting everything from my art class were I'm trying to maybe create my own collection, and hopefully a portfolio.

Homecoming just passed so now the senior feeling is really setting in. Well, I'll post all my designs some time, senior year keepin' me busy!

Alehandro Vid, Design

Ever since becoming a Lady Gaga fan, she's had a tremendous impact on the designs

I've been doing. So here's two that I drew after watching the Alehandro music video

(the creepiest music video I've ever seen...)

But none the less awesome.

Starting Over

Yes this blog did have posts but now, I'm starting over!

I now want to make this more of a sketch blog and the random things that come into my mind about fashion and my love for it. Since DeviantArt is were I put my regular drawings so this blog is were I'll put my fashion sketches.

I'm building a portfolio anyway for college so why not start here! :)