Author: Xinyu Zhang

When I started this course I thought that I can learn more details on how to make a topic and a protfolio well and get in touch with more students from different countries to learn from each other and make progress. The things that I enjoyed on this course is first of all, I have made a lot of… Continue reading Evaluation

I finished my sketches in the middle of last week and started to draw the final lineup. I chose to draw digitally because I felt that I could adjust the size of the brush to make it easier to draw the details of the fabric and I had transparent lace in my collage and sketches, so I could… Continue reading week 5

In this lesson we learned how to use AI to make some three-dimensional objects, just need to make two simple objects，one is similar to the shape of a doughnut, and the other is a coffee cup, this is my first time to the use of AI in stereo, although a bit complicated to operate, in the end after consult teachers and classmates help I got completed, after that, we need to create a smiley face… Continue reading week4 Adobe class

This week is mainly about the extraction of contour experiment, collage and sketch painting. I mainly arranged the finished fabric on the mannequin, and then collage different pieces on PS for the second time to extract the contour. I first used the gauze skirt I bought in Traid near the school, and then combined with the fabric. However, since the gauze skirt had… Continue reading week 4

This week I continued making fabric samples and also did some mannequin experiments. And used epoxy resin to seal the dried flowers and then fixed them by sewing method. I also made the broken dried flowers into strips of simulated cloth and woven them into the cloth separately. In addition to this weaving method, I also tried… Continue reading week 3

In this session we chose unfamiliar students in the same class to give feedbacks and write the peer review form to each other, I chose my future classmate in BA which also study fashion textile:knitting. She gave me some advice, at the same time I looked at her fabric samples, almost all of them crocheted by hand, some stitches I haven’t seen before, she… Continue reading 5.10 peer review

In this lesson we will learn how to edit the video, the PR contact a new software, video editing has become increasingly important in our daily life, such as the first semester in Media class， we need to edit some styling video, or I’ll shoot some videos to record my daily life in my spare time life, and then put them together into a vlog, is through mobile phone. However, mobile clips are only suitable for short videos,… Continue reading week2 Adobe class

This week is mainly about making fabric, which is different from the profile experiment I did first in the last project. I plan to make fabric first and then develop profile. For me, the most important thing is to develop colour board first. I first extracted red, the main color in my research, and then… Continue reading week2

In class this week, Giles suggested that we should go to see Alexander McQueen’s exhibition, so I went there at the weekend, this exhibition was on old Bond Street. It’s a high-setting exhibition about roses, mostly high-setting dresses designed by Mcqueen and Sarah Burton. There is also a small rotating projection space is also designed to play the video pictures of the show in previous years.… Continue reading week1 Alexander Mcqueen