Nearly every native American tribe had it's own distinctive style of dress and the people could often tell each other's tribal indentities by looking their clothes, head-dresses and nemen taken. In most tribes, Native American men wore breechcloths ( a long rectangular piece of hide or cloth tucked over a belt, so that the flaps fell down in front  of the behind). Sometimes leather leggings attached in colder climates. In other tribes Indian men wore a shirt, kilt and fur trousers instead of breechcloth.
 American Indian ladies wore skirts and leggings but the length and design varied from tribe to tribe. Women always wore tunics and mantles in public. In other tribes women wore just one piece dresses
(Cheyenne buckskin dress ). Most tribes had some form of moccasin ( sturdy leather  shoe).

American Indian

The term American Indian is defined by the indigenous people of the area that is now known as  the United States. Over the last many hundred years, the American Indians have formed tribes, lived and prospered on this great land. They all shared an appreciation and respect for native American Indians and viewed nature as a gift from the Gods which should be revered and treated properly.

David Downton

David Downton was born in Kent, in the south of England in 1959. He studied at Canterbury ( Foundation year 1977- 1978) and Wolverhampton (BA hons illustration/graphics 1979-1981). In 1984 he moved to Brighton and began his illustration career. For the next 12 years - a period he describes as 'wagging my tail when the phone rang' - he worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from advertising and packaging to illustrating fiction, cook books and, occasionally, fashion.
 David Downton uses media's such as ink, watercolour and fine liner. He uses minimal lines to create dramatic effect and it makes his work look more realistic. I think David's work is slick and sophisticated and what I will take in to consideration is the way he uses shading with ink to create detail and the light lines and the contrast of light lines and think lines.

Illustration Boards

As I come to the end of recreating fashion illustrators work, I was to complete 4 of my own illustration boards which incorporated a design from my capsular collection. I enjoyed this part of the brief because I could use a media from a illustrator that I had looked into which I enjoyed using the most. I went with James Dinagan's media and created two of my boards with gouache and I also created two of my boards taking the media from Stina Perrson which was ink. I found this aloud me to get creative and to work with media's I wouldn't usually chose to work with. I would make changes to my illustration boards by taking more time in learning how to use these media's correctly as I seemed to have splodges of paint and ink all over my boards and not the correct shadings that I would have hoped for. But all around I was pleased with my work. The target market of my work didn't fit well with the media I had used, as I was aiming for high end high-street and the media wasn't slick enough or the layout of my boards, but the media and layout seemed to look more highstreet.

Sara Singh

As I am looking into historical and resent illustrators for my new brief I decided I would look at Sara Singh's work. I enjoy her work as it is all done freestyle and there is no neat lines and it all looks like an artist mess which is the style I prefer to work in.
 The media used by Sara Singh is ink and fine liner so it was a fun media to work with. I created some samples to see what brush size would be better to work with.


I found that using a smaller brush would create the better effect in the style of Sara Singh. I  think my recreation could have been created to a more professional standard, but I am pleased with the outcome. If I was to use this media in the same way I would create more samples so that I could produce my work to a higher standard.

Paul Iribe

I looked into a illustrator called Paul Iribe, I found his work interesting as a lot of it was to do with the world war. I found a piece of his work which stood out most to me and it was an image of Hitler. I then looked into the media that Paul used so that I could try and re-create this piece, I found that he made stencils and rubbed iron and copper shavings over the top of the stencil.


I then tried to create my own stencil using this image of Hitler that Paul used.


As I have never made a stencil before I wasn't sure what way to go about it so I created some samples to see which one would work best for the recreation.  I then got a scalpel knife and cutting board and got my drawing and cut the outlines out.

This is the stencil that I created using Paul Iribs method. I think that I gave it a good attempt but there is a lot of improvements that I could make so if I make a stencil again I will need to create a lot more samples to get the best outcome.

NOIR

Noir is an echo friendly fashion brand. Noir works with illuminati 2 using organic fabrics. The illuminati fabrics origin from a project in Uganda, which aims at expanding organic cotton farming they also help to educate the local community and the 4000 farmers employed in the project. The farmers employed in the project receive tools and education in organic farming and health care.
 Noir's work gives women the chance to express their feminine power through their fashion, not only does it express power but it's also very sexy with the cut out's in the garments and casual feel. I like the fact Noir can incorporate the sexy, powerful and casual feel to their garments and create such a dominant mood.

Golden Ratio

So over the past few weeks I have been learning about the golden ratio and how you use it, as part of my college brief. I couldn't really get my head around the mathematics and how they are used within the golden ratio.

To me the golden ratio means maths and numbers. The golden ratio helps proportion when drawing, i.e. the Moan Lisa was drawn using golden ratio. If things are in proportion and fit into the golden ratio then it's thought to be more pleasing to the eye even the human figure. Before I had received this brief I had never heard of the golden ratio but as I learnt more about it I thought it was interesting but also quite confusing. I think with a little more understanding of the golden ratio I will try and use it in some of my own work to see if it could help me.

 

Princess Of The Ball

Well I am one very excited young lady as I have been invited to a party in a castle. Not any old castle but pekforton castle

 How lucky am I, it's such a beautiful place. The only dilemma I am faced with is WHAT DO I WEAR ! I didn't realise how hard it would be to find the perfect cocktail dress which say's WOW ! So I found a very old purple body con maxi dress, which I have decided I will sew crystals on to. I am not going to put the crystals on the dress so they cover it and look over the top I am going to graduate them so they are in bulk around the hem and reduce to less and less as they travel up the dress. Hopefully I can get this done before November.

Image to be uploaded.

SHOES SHOES SHOES...

COME TO TASHA !!! Well the only way I could possibly describe these shoes is OUT OF THIS WORLD. Love at first sight not only are they my favourite colour but they are perfect to wear with most outfits and would just make a little black dress. I would die and go to heaven if I could afford these shoes pay-day could not come sooner as they have just been put on sale, reduced from £140.00 to £39.00 could this sale be any more perfect ! Well yes if Kurt sent them to me for free a girl can only dream.
http://www.kurtgeiger.com/women/hot-20.html