Feathers: any of the flat appendages growing from a bird's skin and forming its plumage.

Feathers are great I love them nearly as much as fur. I think my fondness comes from the inspiring designs that the great late Alexander McQueen produced. Although feathers can be light and angelic, they can also be dark, moody and quite evil in appearance. Colleen Atwood use them beautifully in Snow White and the Huntsman for Charlize Theron's costumes.  

The dark sinister feel is amazing, the darkness really caught my attention and I decided to design a few like that. But with more of a feminine thuch. 

This was the first and most horrible of drafts, drawn with my four year old nieces pens. I've tried to create a sharp bodice that flows in to a feathered skirt.

That then inspired this page of doodles, at first I mainly focused on the bodices, but the huge feathered skirt made a reappearance far right. 

I really liked the end image. So re did it portrait on a3. To start I used pencil and fine liners. I couldn't make it dark enough so added black acrylic. 

A quick comparison to the first. 

A close up of the feathers. I love how mutch detail I managed to cram in. 

The shoes id love to make these, it's a shame my name isn't Louboutin. Maybe one day they will be real. 

Collar to cuff: coloured designs

Here I have been trying out different media formats on my designs, this page has a mix of acrylic water colours and pencils. 

Here I have used acrylic for the shirts and skirt and water colour for the skin. Model three has a Robert best style face.

Heee I have only used acrylic and loved the colour on the skirt and on the hair.

 

A mix of pencils an acrylic. 

I've mainly used water colour for these. The hair was acrylic.  

I've used charcoal pencils for the first time here, and the model looks a lot like skeletor :/. 

By the time I had got to these designs I seemed to have got the hang of it. 

Charcoals again. 

I really liked these mainly because I had doodled a louboutin pump in the middle. I have used acrylic on all of these. 

A mix of acrylic and water colour.

               RANDOM PARROT :). 

My design boards are next, i need to add media to my final nine and arrange them on the boards. Then I will post an update. 

Collar to cuff: Anatomy construction.

When my draft garment was complete I moved on to producing best patterns that include seam allowance and are attached straight onto the fabric and cut around.

Then I had to complete my print. As the theme was anatomy I went with one of the most interesting parts of the body the human heart. It is a repeating pattern of white dye on black cotton. 

Construction was easy, as during the drafting process I made notes and on how I had made it. At first I thought i had made the garment too small but I was assured it would be fine once I had inserted the zipper. 

The finished article. I am incredibly pleased with the outcome even though I had put it on the block a bit wonky. 

And the back view, still wonk at this point. And severely in need of pressing.