Christmas Eve and of course... I can't sleep. No clue why: Christmas hasn't really hit me this year, I'm just not in the mood... possibly because of the heart wrenching Merlin finale this time last year. Bad times. Bad times...
I'm going to start setting serious personal deadlines, and this is actually an idea I've had for a while, but I can never actually think of how long it will take me to do a thing; I've just sort of thought 'oh it's okay I'll just wing it' but this time what with Uni interviews coming up I just feel like I need something more serious and concrete. Anyway in order to get this all straightened out I really need to think about what I need to do, so that's what I'm going to do now.
I need to get 250 words written about my favourite costume designer, then I need to create a mood board based on aspects of my personality and then from that I need to create a superhero based on one of my aspects.
Then I'm going to focus on my current projects. For textiles I need to finish the rest of the design sheets and modelling, I also need to get some boning ordered so I can test out my corset making skills. Oh and I need to add the minor adjustments to the other sheets on publisher, but I am going to start that when I get publisher on my mac... and I know people are like 'ugh well you should have had Windows' NO. OKAY? SHUT UP. I LOVE MY MAC. AND WHO THE HELL HAS MICROSOFT PUBLISHER ANYMORE HEY? YEAH THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. Oh and I need to order my fabric for textiles. I'll do that after I've got all the measurements I need though.
Then I need to get my art project on the Post-apocalypse up to a certain point, but for that I'm going to set a load of mini deadlines which will get their own notebook page/checklist thing. There's also an essay I need to write about my project (I know. An Essay. For art. It's ridiculous) which needs to be in by the end of the first week back though I plan on getting it done before that.
Then finally I am going to focus on sorting everything out into a portfolio for uni interviews. My art teacher suggested a few things, namely making more work for myself, so I'm going to simplify it a bit. I want to show a progression of my work, and that I can work for a client, which I can all through this website. Which is convenient...
So as for the deadlines... I plan on starting all this after christmas, probably boxing day or the day after (depending on whether or not I'm hungover) and I want to get the first three things done before I start college again. My first interview isn't until the 13th of January and I go back on the 6th, so That gives me some leg room to get things sorted out.
The 250 word essay and the superhero stuff, which will be so awesome to do, shouldn't take long. Just get all doe eyed for Colleen Atwood and we're good, and my superhero would probably be like the Chill Pill or something because that is totally my superpower. I would be such an unconventional superhero. For this I'll give myself a day for the essay and the mood board, then like half a day for the final design, which takes me to either the 27th or the 28th.
Then the textiles stuff... so I need to have a read through the book on the project and work in the details, I plan on dedicating 2 days to the design pages with the modelling intertwined, then another day for the publisher pages and anything I may have missed. So that should take me up to new years...
My deadline for the essay and the art project development/observational studies will be the 6th as this is the last thing I'm doing, so it should run up to the end. Though after the new year I may need some kind of social interaction to save me from some sort of depression, but we'll see.
So I will stick my face into this stuff on boxing day hopefully.
See you on the other side~
P.S. Did anyone read this?... I really hope not