Work In Progress

Happy belated 1st anniversary oatsforporridge!! I'm 8 days late. Oops. Was leaving Sweden for Spain that day.

Busy catching up on my work since coming back from Spain. Will post up photos of the yummy tapas soon. 

It's Kiruna this weekend, trying to catch the northern lights. Hopefully it'll be cloudless, that God'll let us catch the aurora and that I wouldn't freeze into a popsicle in the -20 to -30degC weather. 

Tribal Romance Revisited S/S 2011

Came across these yesterday at Zed-Eye.

The brainchild behind this label is Nigerian-born Ngozi Pere-Okorotie, who is a graduate from London College of Fashion and takes inspiration from Vivienne Westwood.

This collection is a revisitation to Ngozi's earlier collections, where she played with colours, textures and silhouettes.

For better photos go the site itself! I'm loving the headwear already.

Model Inspirations

This is how my screen's looking now. 

Studying facial features and trying to sketch out the best face I could for the subjects of my fashion illustration.

Fashion Illustration

Currently I've got a student directed project that allows me to do just about anything I want for the project, so long as it is fashion/ textile related, of course. 

I've always been fascinated with fashion illustrations. I love drawing girls with beautiful dresses. My best friend from high school used to think I might study fashion instead of architorture (which was SO not for me, hence I fired my bosses... JK!! Reno, Jenny and Tim are great people) coz of those drawings. Neither am I in fashion as well, btw, but in textile design :) Anyway, a decade or more after my first attempt in my extremely primitive sketches of girls with pretty dresses on, I'm now given an opportunity to fully control the direction of my project.

Here are really simple boards that I've come up with after diong some research. Illustrations are all by other super talented artists. Kelly Smith, Bec Winnel, Brittany Lee, Yulia Brodskaya and Catherine Campbell are amongst those whose works I've used to convey what the illustration style/ technique/ materials that I'd like to explore in this project. 

Laura Laine is exceptionally noteworthy. Her illustrations are simply amazing. I'd wish to develop my own style of illustration too and this project would defo be a great stepping stone towards that.

Hopefully they'll turn out as great as I imagined them to be.