This week was the first week on my foundation fashion & textiles course at Ravensbourne, On day one the class and I had a little getting to know each other session by asking questions about our personality, family history and likes and dislikes in a speed dating sort of style which was really weird but at the same time very fun and interesting.
Now it was time for our next task of the day taking pictures of our ten objects that mean have meaning to us and sketching some of them out in our sketchbooks, it was a beautiful sunny day and lovely to sit outside and get to know more people over lunch and with only a few hours left the day was over and we were assigned our first piece of homework.
On Wednesday we brang in our homework which we were set on monday to complete a 3D mindmap of our 10 objects and bring in 10 images to use for a task later in the day, Our task was to create a new mindmap based around our 3D ones and link it our family history, likes & dislikes, and personality I found it quite difficult but really helped learn more about myself as a person.
On Thursday I had a SDS day so i woke up early to complete my homework task set from Wednesday to design a portrait of my face made up from some of my family photos it was interesting trying to blend different shades of paper together as i'm so used to using paints, pencils and pastels when it comes to doing portraits.
Once I finished my work I had the rest of the day free and was off out to assist stylist Adam Howe on a Menswear feature for the Sunday Times Style. It was a very long but fun day and I got some good styling experience from working with Adam. As much as I enjoy styling, I don't think it's the pathway I want to go down in fashion as it doesn't challenge me as much as other areas such as Design & Textiles but that's why exactly why I'm doing this course to help me discover and further what I want to do.
After what felt like a very long first week Friday had finally arrived where I was experimenting with placing imagery, everyone in my group had to lay out ten images on a A1 sheet and we'd go round and transform someone else's (we repeated this three times) from our point of view of what we thought we're the most interesting and how they should be presented.
Then we went back to our own images and took a snapshot of how the other person had arranged them and then we finally put them order we thought looked best. I really enjoyed the task especially as whenever i'm creating/designing something I always think how would someone else view this? what what they do to make it better? and it really just helps to evaluate your own work.
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