Greetings Friends
Adapt and Overcome. I have been told this a few times but it isn't until very recently that I decided to fully embrace this. It always comes down to choice, let things break you or let the bad times be the reason for and source of your strength. Choosing to kick some serious backside seems like a good option to me.
I have been drawing clothing designs since I was about five years old, it has always just been a thing with me, blame my grandmother for making me too many "princess dresses"
I recently started converting my older sketches into digital drawings but have decided to attempt to take it a step further by attempting to teach myself how to make the patterns for my designs and also how to do 3D garment design while at it. I'm pretty sure there is also an animate function in the software I am using....virtual fashion show? Hells yeah. But that is a way off still.
This is my first attempt at creating a very simple dress after watching about 20 minutes of a YouTube tutorial. It is very very clumsy and amateurish but I am learning.
All of this is very basic but the first step is to draw out the shapes for your pattern pieces in the 2D window. As I have stated I know nothing about creating my own patterns, my learning method at this time is 'Wing it' and learning by trial and error. I ended up altering these pieces a little bit to make it all work.
Basically you draw out your 2D pieces, tell the software where to sew what together, then hit spacebar and watch as the garment falls to the ground, is sewn through part of your model's body, creates an atrocious fit....Okay my first attempts clearly sucked, but once I altered things a bit it was VERY satisfying to have everything come together as a semi okay looking dress.
I ended up messing with the pattern pieces a little bit more to get a better fit going here.
Of course, for the sake of leaning and trying out more features, I decided to add a pattern to the dress. This part was pretty easy at least. I feel like I am going to need to learn about different types of material before being able to create some of my designs using this.
Adding a little ruffle and some buttons to the dress felt like a good idea, might as well have it look semi okay and try out more things right?
There are many little imperfections, and I still need to watch another tutorial to figure out why I cannot yet get my seams to work. (Not that I added a seam allowance to the 'pattern' but anyways) All in all though...I made a 3D dress! I am feeling pretty happy about it.
I am not doing it for the purpose of this, but currently, I am at a very interesting point in my life...I need to start building and have decide to pursue some sort of studies (outside of ZA if I can manage it, but that is a whole other adventure) I am definitely considering seeing if this fashion thing will be worth it, even though I would prefer some kind of art thing. Either way, I am planning on documenting all that on here once I get properly started.
Well that's it for now. Till next time!
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