In Awe

I'm in the mood for a HUGE update! And with pictures too! HAHA.

It's been a really busy week. Just last month, I attended the Men's Fashion Week 2012 at Marina Bay Sands. That was an awesome first-time experience. The male models were just strutting down the run way in front of me! WOW. Haha. Well, I definitely won't forget the weird underwear pieces I saw too. Haha. Definitely an unforgettable experience.

AND THIS WEEK - I attended the Audi Fashion Show 2012. This year it's held at the tentage at Ngee Ann City again. The benefit of being a student - I got 3 free tickets to the show! Haha. The first show I watched on Monday was the Audi Star Creation 2012 Finals. To be honest, I was nodding off towards the end. To show 4pieces of clothes from each of the 12 contestants is too much.Not all of them were exciting to watch. And the music was too boring.

Then on Friday, I caught the Audi Star Creation Capsule collection from 2011 winners. Well it's definitely much more interesting. They showcase their collection that they did during their internship with Fj Benjamin. Amongst the three, I love Chen Zhi Gang's collection the best. His clothes really brings out the femininity in women. I can see his link and flow from clothe to clothe. Really nice.

Then it was the Parco Next Next yesterday afternoon. The first designer collection that went on stage was really fun. Especially the kid on Heelys (running shoes with wheels) - she just took the limelight. Haha. A refreshing take on the runway! The rest of the collections had some boring ones, and some really interesting ones too. I guess one designer decide to steal some limelight by using Nat Ho as one of his model.

Then just last night, I attended the Zac Posen show that I paid for! AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL DRESSES. Seriously. I can't stop saying "they are so pretty!" after the show. This last gown that went on stage just took my breath away. The gown is totally different in reality. Photos don't do it justice. Seriously! I shall one day design such gown for my own wedding! It's a promise!

And of course, I got a bunch of freebies. I have a stack of hair salon vouchers (salons that uses Redken) that I doubt I will use. Anyone interested can get from me! I'm not sure if I'm going to give it away generously free or going to sell it. Hehe.

And now, about school.

The following are some work I did for my Mixed Media and Rendering class.

 The first lessson we were taught how to shade properly. With just pencils of course. This was my homework. Not too badly done. But I got really bored of shading towards the end. Haha.

This was done partially in class. It's my sharpener. We were suppose to learn to shade in details. Nice?

 Next class, we started to draw some real stuff. This was a part of a plant. I shaded pretty well, but our teacher told us to try and experiment with marker shading. I must say, some parts of the leaves weren't too well done. But I'm still quite proud of this drawing cos given that I could shade since I was young, I was never able to do a decent job on real objects.

 We were suppose to do the same thing as homework, but on a complete plant. And I made a mess. Ugly to the max.

We started to learn to shade with colour pencils. The homework was to make a piece of cloth look like a cloth. After 5-6 attempts, I finally made it work. Phew!

This was the nightmare!!! LIVE SKETCHING! Horrendous. We all hated the corn so much by the end of the class. My apple totally look like onions. By now, I have totally started to hate shading. Argh.

But this saved me. Last week we learnt how to shade with watercolour. It was fun to do this. Never figured out how to do this when I was in secondary school. And now at last, I do. But of course at a price - I had to buy the costly watercolour paper. $$$





The following is my first homework from Art Direction Class. For reasons I can't understand, this class is all about taking photos. So the first class, we were theoretically taught what Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO was. That's it. Then we were asked to use our DSLR to take photos with given requirements from these 3 functions. *rolls eyeballs* I have plenty of complaints about this class. But I shall not go on about them here if not my post will never end.

However something good did come of this first homework I did. I was asked by the school to participate in the Crowbar Awards (Using 3 out of the four pictures). Quoting from Wiki "The Crowbar Awards are open to full time tertiary students worldwide. There are six categories open for entries, advertising, design, photography, interactive, film, and the Crowbar Challenge. The awards are run by the Association of Accredited Adversting Agents Singapore."

I thought my homework will be very normal. I mean, we were suppose to work with light or water. So I thought everyone will be doing what I did? But end up, I was wrong. But ah wells. To explain briefly, my main concept was Mother Nature. 

FYI, all the light source was from my iphone flashlight.

Using a small glass cylinder, I created a seaweed.

 This was done with the same tiny glass cylinder, but unscrewed this time. A tracing paper was placed on top to distort the surface. Tada - my natural landform.

 A romantic sunset along the beach. With a plastic bowl of water, I moved the water inside to create the colour waves you see here.

 With the same method, plus a change in the white balance, I created the scene of the underwater world JUST beneath the surface of the sea. I cut out the fishes to complement the picture and to help me to tell my story. But somehow it became the center of attraction.

Then it's my favourite class: Art History (to be specific, it's fashion history). Ali told us so many interesting stories while teaching us the history in fashion. Got me all intrigued by Marie Antoinette. You wouldn't believe how affected I am by her. She's so poor thing. Sad.

Anyway, Ali taught us fashion illustration as we need to draw out some basic designs as part of our project.

This is one of my first few (presentable) figures. Also my first attempt at marker rendering. Haha.

 My first proper designing attempt since starting school. Inspired by Marie Antoinette. Ali did a more amazing job when he corrected this figure. I need to exaggerate my drawings more.

 This is obviously inpsired by the Egyptians. I was infatuated with the "goatees" they have while I was drawing this outfit. You can see the goatee everywhere in this outfit. Haha.

 Well this is an odd dress that I was trying to do. Can you tell it's inspired by the pomegranate?




Ok enough updates already. I need to get down to doing my research for my two projects. Work work work!

Tata!~