My Personal Project

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	My Personal Project

	This is my Personal Project tracking page. I made this available so no matter where I am, I can show people what i have accomplished.

Choosing a project

I had so many ideas for my personal project that i had to use a process of elimination.

Some of the better idea are listed below:

A book of South Australian Theatres

A book of short stories

Building a computer

Designing and creating a computer program

Writing a play or production guide

Drawing a house blueprint

Making a piece of furniture

The idea i eventually settled on was making a piece of clothing.

There were two sub headings in this: a cosplay outfit, or a formal dress.

I chose a formal dress as it's a more practical thing since i have to attend a formal at the end of the year and within the next 3 years. Also this is one of my grand money saving schemes. And i can't complain that it's not the style i wanted.

Getting Started

Getting started is quite often the hardest part of any project. I started with a preliminary sketch. Mind you, i am hopeless drawing decent looking bodies so i asked Leesha Chan for a bit of help on that one, then i finished it off and drew the first dress idea over it. They say we're ment to spend about 20 hours on the product, but i can see it's going to consume all my spare time for the next 20 weeks.

I got the first sketch finished and was admiring it when Mrs Millard saw what i was doing and i explained that i was going to do it for my IB Personal Project and she came out with a briliant book on Fashion Design: "Fashion Design And Drawing Course" by Thames and Hudson. After looking through this i changed a few aspects of my first sketch. Mainly the torso, i bunched the material in and had it following out from a ring between the models breasts.