I thought it would be interesting to show everyone my process of doing finishes for my Fashion Illustration class. Especially since it takes me about 3-4 hours just to do two, depending on the garments ofcourse. This weeks homework is to do evening wear, which ive happened to enjoy a lot, maybe too much, because this homework turned out to be a little too snake legs with the purple border and all... :[) Okay first step, pick images to draw, then draw a balance line right through them. I usually go to style.com to find my images and then on photoshop blow them up and print them out. Because the paper we have to paint our finishes on is 11x15 [Parsons Paper - which you can get at design partners on 29th and 7th] I tape two pieces of computer paper together to equal the size of Parsons paper to draw my rough sketches on, just to get the basic shape. Then I put tracing paper over that and trace the figure and add the clothes. Then, I take it to my AWESOME light box that my good friend Ken made for me and has LITERALLY saved me hours of work time *thanks Ken* :) If you can get a light box - GET ONE!!!!! So I then put my Parsons paper over the tracing paper and trace the figures, and THEN [a lot of thens] :/ set up my painting work station and paint them in. Voila! Two fashion finishes....Now just imagine 14-20 of those for my concepts class! That is how many are due next week, and that is just one class!!!!! Yes, I am pulling my hair out as I speak! :) ahaha lol However, I have to constantly remind myself, that my homework is to paint fashion figures!!! :[) *sweet*!!

GAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Only 31 more days till school is out and then im thee big J-U-N-I-O-R!!! Woot Woot* This week was so crazy due to all my homework that needs to be done, but sooooo much fun! For my advertising class, our final project we are asked to make an advertisment in two mediums and it can be in any time period from the 1800's to now. So with the help of an amazing friend I am making a commercial for Breck Shampoo [do any of you remember Breck?] :[) Basically im starting in the 40's and will end in the 60's... imagine the 40's drawing merging into the 50's and then 60's...oh yeah! It is going to merge into that with the background poping out every where...so this weekend ive gotta do a TON of drawings of the faces slowly turning in order for them to flow smoothly into one another...oh gosh, I CANNOT wait for it to be finished and post it on my blog...It is sooo cool! After watching my friend animate just the background, I was ready to give up fashion and go into animation! It reminded me of John Cusaks character in Better Off Dead, when he is in the cafeteria drawing the girl he likes and the highschool jock, and then watching them come to life!!! I want to make all my drawings come to life now!!!! :( mmmmmmm..... Then my finishes, flats, swatches & moodboard homework for Friday's concepts class was due. That was a challenging assignment to work on. Men are not easy to draw, but it was fun and hopefully I can do it again next year. I love swatching for fabric and organizing them in a pleasing way, hence a picture of my swatchboard... and then I put up a picture of my flats just because. That whole project took me about 13-15 hours...actually maybe a little longer. The funny thing is that it doesn't look like it, but because we have to paint everything, and you usually have to do it in layers, it eats away at time so quickly!!! But the final outcome is so satisfying and you end up with something that is worth treasuring! And because my life in New York City is not complete without babysitting/hanging out with my homegirl Emily! PEACE - WORD-HOLLA....<- This girl rocks... seriously every time im with Emily and her sister Annie, I always wish "oh why can't we all be the same age" :) lol yesterday after picking Emily up from school we went shopping for a dress she needs to get for one of the 5 million bat mitzvahs she has been invited to. Then we chopped on over to Starbucks to get a chai grave? I dunno the name, emily did the ordering, and then back to her place for some of thee good old fashion drawing games that we love to do. Im going to post a bunch of pictures of that next week, especially, because emily found some drawings from wee long ago that are too cool! :[) I love my life! I really have nooooo room what-so-ever for complaints! boo...my spell check is not working...oh dear, you all will found out of what a fraud I really am, and not a good speller at all:/)

AHHHHH!!!! I went to THEE coolest tea/restaurant place ever tonight! Somewhere down in SoHo, < I totally forgot to pick up a business card. And actually I don't even remember the name, must find that out! :) lol But it was so fantastic, decorated Moroccan style, warm glowing lighting, cozy seating, a perfect place for someone to hold a party, a graduation party for example!!! Basically I am saying I want to have my graduation party there, I decided the second I walked in there, that is how much I love that place. And the tea's were exceptional as well, we had mint and lavender, in fancy tea glasses ofcourse! Oh and a lil reminder. The new Blonde Redhead albulm came out today so go buy it! IT is very good. 5 stars!

Happy Easter Everyone! Hope you have a wonderful, peaceful day tomorrow! And to end on an even better note, a great quote.. :) "There are always flowers for those who want to see them" - Henri Matisse -

Sooooooo tired. But before I take a nap - the edits of my Menswear collection ---- much better compared to last weeks! Ha! Those were a nightmare! Next week the finishes, which I will also post pictures of. :) But before I keep forgetting, my inspiration is military, and also for your info, the colors turned out highly saturated when I scanned the pages, so they aren't as dark and vibrant, more muted.;)

*tired* it is 3:40 am and I can't seem to go to sleep :/ so I pulled out my new "Le Pen" I got at Design Partners today and did some drawings in my sketchbook. My pen was happy, and decided to make a mix cd while drawing, so I let him go at it. What a talented little pen that Le Pen is. :) Someday I want to be just like him. Want to know what he put in his happy mix? Why, Saeglopur by Sigur Ros ofcourse....Le Pen is a big fan, especially of the "twinkles" in the song. He was trying to explain to me exactly what that sound intstrument is but couldn't find the exact words.......but he is ofcourse sleepy.*

Our current concepts assignment is menswear. And. I bombed it, I mean BOMBED it!!! Im not posting pictures for those reading this to comment and leave nice things about it, because 1. there is nothing that anybody can say to me that will change how I feel about my collection [it's pathetic] and 2. Im posting pictures because our teacher Mr. Chu [love him!] is giving us an extension for the menswear, meaning we get more time to croqui and work on edits, re-swatching etc. *hurray* pretty much the whole class was in a menswear funk. :( But back to point #2 Im posting pictures so you can what kind of work is produced when one is in a funk and what kind of work is produced when out of it, bytheway im out of my funk! :) However, im a little worried about how to draw the men, im trying to go back and look at how I "normally" draw my men, but somehow they keep getting back to that fashiony look that im not to keen on.... but, we shall see...anyways, more pictures to come of my process, especially since this is one worth documenting. Oh, and school is almost out!!! 42 more days and then im a JUNIOR! *yay* Oh I forgot to mention that my inspiration is military, but with more vibrant colors - but I will talk more about that in my next post. :)