 676How did you approach the individual exercises?

 What did you learn from them?

 What did you feel and find out about yourself: did you like the exercise?
What about the exercise did or did you not like? What would you do
differently? How did the exercise help your creative thinking? How does
it resonate with your personality and personal style?

Personal Universe
Starting this course, I aimed to gain the knowlegde of fashion in furthering my
course as an concept artist. In learning about fashion, I can create better
character design. So when I aproach this exercise, it is my instinct to create a
character, when I still have retained a lot of my tendencies as an concept artist.
However, as I progress in the works, my ideas loosen and I removed myself from
said tendencies. But after making 5 or 6 iteration, it become quite tedious. After
that, in order to hype up my energy, I tried different ways to approach this
exercise. First of all, I observed surroundings for new ideas and stepped out the
comfort zone to produce new compositions. Therefore, I took advantage of
things around me and designed new looks, compositions. In conclusion, I learned
how to gather informations, things around me and get the best out of those.
Besides, I developed myself beyond the idea that I am an concept artist. To more
extend, I can be a creative and expand my comfort zone by experiment different
things.
Paper and Paint
This is a particularly challenging exercise for me, as this is highly abstract. It is my
tendencies to work from what I look up to, so when to approach an exercise with
no particular goal in mind. However, it is highly interesting and exhilarating when
combine so many different tools. It is also free up my mind from the pressure of
having to draw “something” because anything is good enough. This allowed me to
make mistakes, if they are even mistakes at all. Being only familiar with the digital
tools, using traditional tools is a breath of fresh air. The way multiple tools
created unpredicted pattern and textures is way beyond the look digital tools can
achieved. After being all chaotic and crazy with the color and the texture and the
tool, adding a little bit of order into the works make all the aesthetics I need. As a
consequence, I realized that abstract art does not focus on depiciting the real
world, but it concentrates on communicate with viewers through visual
vocabulary.

Sketching the Human Body

I has always love sketching. At the beginning, I tackle the exercise like I usually
would with my normal drawing. I aim for the realistic side of things. However, as
the time progress, my works become looser and more expressive, as well as
abstract. The longer the exercise went on I stray further from the realist look and
working on capturing the feeling of the object. This is a personal favorite of mine
for two reasons. First, I love playing to my strength, and drawing is the one. It
really feel like breathing to me. However, when running, you still have to push
your breathing to the limit, which is the second reasons. I have to break the
barrier of my abilities in different direction, not in capture absolute accurate
visual depiction of the subject, but to capture more than that, ultilizing the
mediums as well as the tools.
Draping
This exercise was introduced to us as a way of incoroparting the draping of the
material. I come from a background of drawing and painting, where the things I
created not necessary have to make sense or actually work in the real world.
However, this exercise encourage my engagement in the praticality side of the
works. I learn about more about the 3D form rather stay on the flat nature of 2D
works. Solving pratical problems evokes new paths and results that is not
foreseeable too me. The exercise also encourage my teamwork skill, due to the
limitation in material and supply. I work with my friends on my design and vice
versa. This collaboration have brought out new outcomes and solutions that I
have not seen before. The original design on paper and the actual final results are
distinctive in many ways that are unexpected.

Generating Design Ideas using Fashion Collage

A while ago, the idea of collage is still foreign to me. I do not really like the
aesthetic of it, it always look kinda “pinterest-y” to me. However, the more I dig
into it, the more it grow on me. I love the tear of the paper and the unconstructed
look of the style. Contrary to the previous assignments, using fabric to create
collage brought up different things. Recently, I really like the boro patch styles,
which I apply to the collage. Using fabric make the works really coherent. And for
some reasons, collage is prety humourous to me.

500 words:
Final reflection
First of all, I have developed myself not only in skill but also the self concept.
Through physical exercises every week, I adapted new knowledge, opened myself
to experiment. At first, I approached not only the first workshop but this course
with the idea that I am a concept artist. However, as working deeper with myself,
I realized that I can be more than that. I have limited myself in a specific field
without knowing that I can grow greater than that. The more I put myself out of
the comfort zone, the more that I realized that my abilities and my potential are
so unlimited. I set myself free from the burden of being one thing to grow out in
many other direction that I have not seen before. That was the biggest lesson that
I took in this assignment beside skills. My perspective around fashion has also
changing. It turn from something glamourous yet far away into something way
more pratical but also have is artistic edge. Studying fashion for me become an
endavour that I go through everyday, from working on assignments, research,
study, to putting the clothes on my body and choosing them from the rack at the
store. Through the works in the course, my creative process is developed and
becoming well rounded. Each exercise give me tools and paths of aproaching
problems that complement each other, from sketching to collaging to working
with actual 3D space and materials. Individual exercises also allowed my to
developed specific skills in unprecedented way. It loosen up myself for more
development. For instance, my ability to sketch now can go beyond capturing
reality at it is at first sight but something even more. But everything I has learnt
only lead to the conclusion that I have so much more to learn, constantly growing
that I must strive for greater results, and I cannot stay the same ever.