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I've been promising to post the beginning stages of my costumes for some time now. I'm finally getting around to it. I do all of my costume sketches on graph paper. (I'm actually terrible at getting things to line up evenly on both sides of the sketch otherwise.) I generally make any notes I need from fittings directly next to the picture, and add construction notes after that. When working out costumes for myself, I seldom seem to write down to fitting information - probably because I know I will be there for a surprise fitting whenever I need me. I've just finally ordered a dressmaker's dummy, so I will probably become even more lax about keeping sizing info on my own costumes. I've played with the contrast and color dispersement on these images to make the pencil lines as clear as possible. I have to apologize for my writting, which is illegible on the best of occassions and has completely failed to come through clearly. It does not help that the paper is all wavey from being dropped in a puddle on day. The scanner here failed to make anything resembling an image out of my poor, abused sketchpad. One of my coworkers (who is, in fact, the owner of the only man's costume I've made to date) managed to do something really impressive to strip these pictures out via video.
(Click on any linked sketch to see the finished costume in the costume gallery.)
These last two are two pages of sketches and modifications to the noble gown I am making myself for the upcoming season. This marks the beginnings of the long promised 'Documentation of a work in progress'. I'll add a section for it just as soon as a little more progress occurs....
(Would you believe all of that cramped scribbling in the middle of the page actually means something? I swear, it does, and it can even be read by a trained interepereter. The top paragraph is design notes, the bottom is construction notes.) If you look in the lower right hand corner of the page, you can see a diagram of the bodice boning I am planning on puttin in. The little designs in the top right corner are trim patterns. The next page is the back, and a modified corset diagram.
