Monday Fashion Sketches #12

Hey guys,

Well I almost didn't make it in time but at 9:13 at night here they are! Four fashion designs for you this week! I've tried out my new Extras kit and they've got some pretty cool stuff in there. Not all of it's good but some of it is. Anyway here you go. Also congratulations to Mathew McConaughey for best Male Leading Role in 'Dallas Buyers Club' and the wonderful Cate Blanchett in 'Blue Jasmine'. The winning movie of the 86th Academy awards goes to '12 Years A Slave'. I actually haven't seen any of these movies but I'm sure they're all good. Well Done. I may be posting some red carpet favourites tomorrow. Hope you don't think it's too late.

This hairstyle looks very birth of Venus don't you think?

Sorry the pictures are each on separate lines and sorry the colour is so bad. But I hope you like them anyway

Jody

Monday Fashion Sketches #11

Hi guys,

Today's designs are a bit different from the usual.
Yes, it's pretty obvious, they're not in colour. This was an experiment in trying to free-hand draw rather than using the pattern pieces. I think it's nice to try free-hand once in a while. I find I can let loose and not worry about getting the lines perfect and I can just experiment and freely express the kind of shapes and textures I want.
So here it is, I hope you like it.

We're almost at present-day designs now so I'll have to start actually drawing every week now :)

Jody

Monday Fashion Sketches #10

The design on the left was an experiment with coloured pens. The right hand design is a casual and modern outfit for young adults.

The overalls kind of failed because I couldn't really see the lines and I'm not sure if the colours are right but I the intended affect was for it to be cute and colourful. I think the one on the right was meant to be more sophisticated.

Jody

Monday Fashion Sketches #9

Yeah, the one on the right is definitely not a favourite of mine although I do like the sunglasses. The one on the left is kind of a girly playsuit.

The one on the left is a modern, casual, summer outfit whereas the on the right is kind of retro

Jody

Monday Fashion Sketches #8

There are only 3 for you today as there is an uneven number

You may notice that the costume on the left is heavily based on the Italian Carnevale character Arlecchino but I like it as kind of a fun carnival/circus type dress.

Jody

Monday Fashion Sketches #7

Today's fashion sketches are:

 Two very preppy outfits and I'd like them more if it didn't make me think of school

Jody

Monday Fashions Sketches #6

Hi guys, It's that time again, it's Monday Fashions Sketches take 6.

The gingham dress and the retro high pants are some of my favourites

Jody

Monday Fashions Sketches #5

Hi guys, time for my weekly fashion drawings again. If you haven't seen my previous posts then I will fill you in now that I am not that good of a drawer I use a template from the My Style Studio kit from Klutz

Yikes, okay so the one on the right isn't my most proudest designs and I apologize for that but I think that's the worst of it.

 I think i was going for a simple 60's look here......
 or one of those eras...

Jody

Monday Fashion Sketches

Hi guys,

I've decided to make the fashion sketches a weekly thing (I'm serious this time) on Monday. I hope you like them!

Oh and in November my 'My Style Studio Extra Stuff' came through and so I've had new designs and textures to work with! You won't see them for a few weeks though as we are still catching up on my older designs.

The one on the left looks a bit strange because I didn't know what hair to give her and then I forgot about it and when I realized it was too late because I had already gone over in pen.

The one on the right is one of my favourites. It's like a 70's or 80's (I don't really know) jumpsuit thing with some modern jewellery and bright colours. The one on the left looks a bit strange because I had to hand draw the cap and it's not very good.

Another four designs next week!

Jody

Fashion drawings

Hi there guys,

I'm sorry I'm going back on my word, I know I said I'd give you my photo app reviews today but instead I'm going to give you a look at some more of my fashion designs. I'll give the photo app reviews another day...maybe tomorrow...maybe not....but probably sometime this week.

 Enjoy!

I will be trying to put these up every week.

Jody

Fashion drawings

Eeep! Soorrry! I COMPLETELY forgot about the weekly fashion sketches. In fact I've kind of forgotten the blog for a while but here it is, some more fashion drawings:

If you're unsure what the symbols mean, refer to my previous post 'My Fashion Designs'. That last one is the first of my own original works.

Also, I'm on twitter now! I'm @JodyThompson42 or click here

Jody

My Fashion Designs

If you don't have My Style Studio by Klutz then I definitely recommend you get it!

It is the easiest tool for drawing your own fashion designs as you will ever come to. You just stick the ready made designs onto the model template. Then put on a sheet of already cut tracing paper and trace your design. It's so simple and so easy to use.

 At first I started by copying the designs that they had created because I was new at it and didn't know what else to do. After a while I began to put together my own outfits and gain confidence as well as practice in my drawings. Copying the drawings became easier too and my hand became steadier.

I have now started steering away from the patterns and started to hand draw my own unique designs (shown above).

I will show you the designs I have already done. So far I have done 46 designs. I figure that's too many to show in one post. So I've decided to show you two every....day? week? I don't know, I'll see how I go. I really want to just show them all to you now but I don't want to run out of fashions to show you too quickly. Of course I'll keep making them and posting them but I think it would be a nice weekly task to take on.

A blue circle means the drawing is partially original. This means I've copied some of it or most of it from the book but added my own touch somewhere (e.g. different shoes).

A yellow star means the drawing has been completely copied and no part of it was of my own creative initiative.

A red heart means it's one of my favourites. I have a lot of favourites which I have not put a red heart because I've either forgotten about it or if I'm not sure if it deserves to be in the top favourites.

So here are 3 today:

I will show you 2 more next weekend. I will call this ongoing series "Fashion Fun".

Also I ordered an extras kit from the Klutz website. Unfortunately it has to be shipped from America and the shipping costs almost as much as the product itself so that is very unfortunate but it didn't stop me from buying it ;D

While pinning on the very useful Pinterest I found this blog which even though I haven't found many pins I find particularly inspiring, I find the blog itself a little inspiring and also that it's is run by a young student (like myself I suppose - except she is a much better blogger) which you don't see many of these days I'm afraid. They seem to all be run by young women or mothers :) Which is fine of course.

Oh so here's the blog: http://yourstrulyg.com/

Jody