When I came on this course to started study for womenswear, especially the process of making clothes and how to design.
One of my dreams to create the clothes on my own will. I hope to create my own design and garments without the others restrict, and I do not want to live for others. I hope to get into the BA courses for further education and get closer to the fashion industry and make the whole garments from beginning to the end on my own
There are plenty of things that I had improved thought out this course. First, I could make the research pages much better than before with external materials not only the drawing. Second, I can handle more software though the Adobe classes. Before that, I could only use Photoshop in Adobe software and now I can use Illustrator, InDesign, Premier fluently. Third, I have made the progress on draping and silhouette. I can make the much more interesting and unique silhouette only with calicos and papers. I think such an achievement can be a good start for the BA courses.
In term 3, I made a project about the 19th Century Surgery, which is going to talk about the darkness and blood when human was exploring the medicine. The process of the project is to do the research, draping, make the developments in both 2D and 3D, redesign the developments and do the final illustrations. I used my skill of making collages, draping, redesign from my silhouettes and drawing skills. To be honest I am doubt on whether I am prepared. I think I am quite prepared but not fully. Even though in London I have developed the skills whatever in research, silhouette, design, drawing and some technique handmade like crochet. However, I still feels like I need more improvement and there are still some skills I was not fully handle in IISF courses such as presentation and analysing.
If I will do the project again, I will not change my topic. However, in the research pages I will make the topic clearer. The topic now would be quite vague because of the modern medicine part has taken for 40 percent of it. I think they should be only for 25 percent. Moreover, I will put more relative materials into the pages, the lavenders and the pills are quite simple I think.
In the 2D&3D development part, I would like to create more draping with more materials. I still think that the draping I did had reached the progress but did not reach my expect. In design part, some of the designs are quite boring for me and some of them are very similar and common. In illustration part, even though I painted the illustrations more free and clear compare with I did before, I still think the models can be more active
I am not so satisfied with my term 3 portfolio.
To be honest, I am not so satisfied with my achievement since October. I am not so good at time management so sometimes when I want to pursue the better result, I prefer to do the things again and again. Therefore, the time will be not enough for me. Moreover, I still need to improve my skills to create draping not only because other students are adept on it, but also because that is a very important skill, I need to handle it in the future. In fact, there is a biggest problem is that I am still quite nervous and afraid to give presentation in front of the class. Overall, even though I had developed some skills like drawing in the course, there are some problems I need to improve.