Not so much dead

Just kinda overloaded with the beginning of the semester. But since a good handful of my classes pertain to my costuming endeavors, I'll share them with you!

Among required things like Art History, I'm able to take three classes this semester that I'm REALLY excited for! Pattern making, Fashion Design and Merchandising, and Theatrical Costume Design. :D Pattern making will be a lot of working with paper and drafting out the actual designs, but not a lot of producing garments. There will be two we have to make, one for mid-semester and one for a final, but one or both of them will be half scale anyway. I'm really looking forward to learning the ins and outs of patterns and how to be able to make designs from scratch. I feel like it'll open up a world of costume opportunities.

Theatrical Costume Design is more like the nitty-gritty details of HOW you go about dressing a cast for a show. We'll be helping out with the two shows they'll be putting on this semester; either in producing the costumes, helping them get dressed or with quick-changes. I'm excited to be around the theater again. Also hoping that it'll get me in touch with someone who might have more experience that can help me work out the fine details of Neliel.

Lastly, Fashion Design and Merchandising is gonna be a lot cooler than it sounded at first. We've been split up into teams of six, two artists/designers, two seamstresses and two business students. We are to create a fashion line from start to finish. Collect samples, draw out ideas, create an inspiration board, set about getting materials, and finally producing at least one garment/outfit to be shown in the fashion show at the end of the semester. I've got my own ideas of what I would LOVE to do (which I may end up doing on my own, if I can manage it) but I won't make the rest of the group do what I want. Still, whatever we decide, it'll be a great experience, seeing how to take a line from start to finish. And I dearly hope we'll be able to make a greater impact on the fashion show than the one in the fall. I thought that one was almost totally uninspired, so I want to make a difference to this one.