Street Style Sketches: Hawaii

Aloha fashionistas and fashionistos!

I can hardly believe it, but I’m blogging today from Honolulu, Hawaii!! I’m here on family vacation until Friday. It’s so beautiful (despite the rainy weather that comes and goes)! I adore the fact that the mountains, beach, and metropolitan area are all here together. I'm used to all of them being completely different places far from each other. Needless to say, there's quite a laidback mixed with hustle and bustle feel about the city.

I wanted to share a street style look from a whale watching cruise adventure I took with my family. I’ve seen lots of laid back street looks and I loved this weather appropriate yet Hawaiian inspired look.

I’ve done a bit of shopping here and there, but I plan to check out the miles of fabulous stores around Waikiki beach. Check back for more street style sketches and/or my Hawaiian shop finds!

A hui hou (See you later)!

B

Savannah Street Style Sketches

For the next few days I'll be posting illustrations of summer fashion I discovered in downtown Savannah. Each features a hint of a Sav location. Hope you enjoy!

The Fashion File

PS: Check out my new portfolio site: www.ladygreyillustration.com

Dirty Laundry

a sketch from a night of doing laundry with my mom

thumbnails: the evolution

Change and evolution: it's all apart of life. A fact we all come to learn whether it be willingly or not. Lately, for me"change" keeps showing its precious little face.

The image of the "laundress" from above is just something from a month or so back I felt like sharing. I try and make a point to look back through old sketchbooks regularly to see how the things I draw have changed.

The image below is an example the very evolution I speak of. One of the biggest transitions I'm currently undergoing is the switch from fashion designer to, not necessarily fashion illustrator (yet), but illustrator. There are the obvious changes, like in my thumbnails. I consider them both thumbnails but they're quite different from one another. I've find myself still thinking about composition, but instead of on the body, on the page. The details still matter: not closures and seams but props and subtle symbolism. The smaller changes aren't as drastic or evident, I actually feel that a lot of what I've learned in my fashion courses translate into how I think creatively and interpret things, just in a different medium.

I'm still happy with my switch of majors and with registration coming up in a couple of weeks, it's about to get real official. As in, no looking back, I'll be pursuing a career as an illustrator when I graduate.

Amongst this and the other things in life that happen to evolve when you become a 20-something (eek), I continue to re-approach my outlook at the world. Never being one for the same ol same ol (a reason the fashion industry appeals to me), I like to create little mantras to put things in my mangled mind into perspective. The most recent applies to my art and equally to my life:

Make it beautiful; make it mean something.

Until next post loves,

B

PS: currently listening to the new Corinne Bailey Rae album, "The Sea." It's amazing, but don't take my word for it: http://www.corinnebaileyrae.net/

What I Wore Today 9.29.09

What I Wore Today 9.28.09

To start of my What I Wore Today sketches:

My apologizes for the slightly ineligible handwriting (click the image for a larger view). My goal is to make this better everyday! Bear with me when the outfit lacks in pizazz. I'll try my best to compensate with an exciting sketch!

Night!
B

The cravings of fashion

(via coutorture.com)
Dolce and Gabbana Spring 2010

1) Loving Dolce and Gabbana's Victorian lace looks with an added edge from the Spring 2010 shows. Heads up: legs have been very trendy this year at fashion week. Sheers and high-waisted "bloomers" are to blame. Body conscious, anyone?

2) Paris Fashion Week is next on the menu for all those hungry for the latest in fashion. Check out the schedule at the link below. I'll be living vicariously through those fortunate enough to attend:
Paris Fashion Week Schedule

3) I've been itching to sketch, but when I put pencil to paper nothing really inspires me. Inspiration jumpstart found:
What I Wore Today via blueisinfashionthisyear.blogspot.com
This week's challenge (amongst those that occur daily): What I Wore today drawings. I'll post here and in the What I Wore Today Flickr pool. Yeah, I'll start that tonight.

until next post,
B

Granny and Gramps, can I borrow a thing or two?

Today's look is inspired by dressing in clothes that look like they came fresh out of the grand 'rents closet. The skirt adds a little twist.
And to get back on track with things, I'm posting a sketch of a collection I'm currently working on. It's for the "Duck and Cover" collection moodboard from a post awhile back.


Coming up this week I'll have summer playlist 2 post, something I've *gasp* sewn, and more sketches.

Hope every one's summer is marvelous!

shirt -thrifted, skirt-target, shoes-thrifted, belt-thrifted

"board"om

At the end of the quarter, I had to start a new sketchbook with only one collection left to do. Now, with a practically empty sketchbook, I plan to keep filling it with collections. Hopefully by summer's end. To kick it off, I've made some inspiration boards. Random ideas float in my head and I think "Oh! Maybe that could be my next inspiration for a collection!"

Exhibit A: Moodboards 1-4

I must recommend a really awesome sight: ffffound.com (that's 4 F's). It's like being lead down a trail by a friend pulling your hand and you having no idea where you're going--but it's all good! (That could be the most horrible comparision ever, but hopefully you get the picture) One picture leads to the next and so on. This with a little bit o photoshop is perfect for beating "board"om and boredom (haha--cheesy, I know!)

Stay tuned!

B