khanjar
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I need some focus as I am starting to lose it with the dancing as well and so, when like this I usually turn to art to centre and balance and so one thing I have not done yet is created a costume for dancing as one can perhaps appreciate not a lot is available off the peg, so it will have to be designed and made by my own fair hands and so I have decided to design a dancing costume hoping the practice will help me focus again.
I do have a design on the go, but 34,000 hand sawn magnesium alloy chain mail rings it's a big job and I am only 12,000 rings joined it's going to take too long and my need is this year or early next, but preferably this year and so I need a costume and I have a few ideas in mind but I need a pictorial representation and so where next?
And so my question, does anyone design their own costumes as in draw them prior to considering making and if so how do you do it, using manual art techniques or software ?
I have on my Mac Adobe In Design which includes Illustrator CS5 but I haven't got a clue how to use it, as my focus has always been on Photoshop, does anyone use Illustrator, and if so is there anything about, where I can hopefully learn what skills are needed specific to costume design ?
I do have a design on the go, but 34,000 hand sawn magnesium alloy chain mail rings it's a big job and I am only 12,000 rings joined it's going to take too long and my need is this year or early next, but preferably this year and so I need a costume and I have a few ideas in mind but I need a pictorial representation and so where next?
And so my question, does anyone design their own costumes as in draw them prior to considering making and if so how do you do it, using manual art techniques or software ?
I have on my Mac Adobe In Design which includes Illustrator CS5 but I haven't got a clue how to use it, as my focus has always been on Photoshop, does anyone use Illustrator, and if so is there anything about, where I can hopefully learn what skills are needed specific to costume design ?