Sketching issues

Kate for David Yurman Jewellery, this is by me, here are other two drawings of mine (check!)

Sketching is hard. I mean skecthing WELL is hard. And sketching is more important than you may aspect. At least when it comes to designing. You have to make it quick, easy and understandable, without detailing it, details are not welcomed. At least not always. It has to present a clear idea in it. Idea that speaks for itself. And before sketching, you already need an idea. For getting one of those? Well it's not like you're in a grossery shop and ask: " One for me, please." It's the hardest part- the part of being inspired. (But about being inspiered I'll write in another post).
I'm not bad at drawing, it quite never has been a problem for me, but sketching is a thing I don't know how to do, I mess up with too many lines. And less lines you have the greater sketcher you are.
I have to sketch every day in architecture lesson (and you must be really precise, millimeter by millimeter, but my hands tremble a little) and now I should do another work: a bracelet or a watch. The last one is way too complicated...
I'm willing to share with you guys my horrible sketches of the lake house I had to project for school, I tried to sketch without any stress, just with a free hand (AND YOU CAN SEE IT):




I hope I have improved since September..
Here are some sketches from some very famouse creative people which really inspired me to improve my sketching skills!

Epic chairs, the right one is my favourite: Barcellona Chair by Mies van der Rohe


Gianfranco Ferrè


Bilbao Guggenheim Museum by Frank O. Gehry


Yves Saint Lauren


A random illustration

The Wizard Oz Shoe Edition: A.Testoni, Botkier and the last one I couldn't figure out.


A tower, great sketch, really great.


Frank Lloyd Wright (the King of sketching)


KENZO parfum, so essential!


Donna Karan
LOVE THIS SKETCH, I can imagine so well this outfit shining on the runway


Frank Lloyd Wright (the King of sketching)


Gianfranco Ferrè


Jason Brooks, a fashion illustrator.


The Wizard Oz Shoe Edition: Sergio Rossi, L.A.M.B. by Gwen Stefani, Moschino


A random jewel sketch I liked


I don't know the author but I really liked this sketch, you can help me out on it, if you know who made it;) (it was an important Haute Couture designer)


Giorgio Armani


Frank Lloyd Wright (the King of sketching), the Waterfall House



There's also a book released in the honour of 100 years of fashion illustration, curated by Cally Blackman, take a look on Amazon (check!)
I love the cover, don't you find it just gorgeous?

Deliciously feminine

Girls! Here's something for us! Take a look at these delightful shoots from Valentino book (who's film, by the way, was nominated on the Academy Award (check!) ).

I think Valentino is simply a genius.

His elegance is impeccable, his talent unique. A true master.. oh I get lost while describing him, I ain't got enough words.. I mean, you get what I mean, don't you? I think there is no woman who wouldn't like to wear his gowns...

I also wanted to thank all my dear readers who keep coming back and my followers- although you are few, you are true! And a special thanks goes to my dearest friend Kadri-Ann back in Estonia who may not be near me now but gives me all the support I need and can get (becuase of the distance).

XOXO

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

Oh my God, really I need to share this so urgently right now. It's 0.37 and I have less than six hours left to sleep as I returned only now at home, and tomorrow there are so many tests and important works that are waiting for me at school.. but all of this doesn't matter at all because I just came from Auditorium where the gran Festival del Cinema Roma is held and you never guess who I got to see there- PAULO COELHO HIMSELF! Now I'm really exited and probably I won't sleep tonight, he is my absolut IDOL and the man has thought me so much (yes I know ..). I will post about my adventure of these days tomorrow, with pictures included.

Life is so unpredictable.

Book of the Month: Italian Touch by TOD'S

The Italian Touch is a collaboration between Donatella Sartorio, an Italian fashion and style journalist, and TOD’s, one of the most important Italian companies producing luxury leather goods. It includes more than 100 Italians of different ages photographed with their families, friends, children and an assortment of dogs in splendid historic palaces and the countryside, representing the Italian way of living and a certain "style" that goes beyond fashion and time.

This absorbing gallery of people includes all kinds of Italian citizens, like the sophisticated Tuscan prince, for example, who teaches International Law at university, edits a daily newspaper and manages his large winery at San Gimignano. There is the handsome Sicilian prince who rents the family palace for events, but who is also an entrepreneur and owns farms and eco-sustainable real estate. There is also the young marquis from Liguria who moved from Manhattan to Monferrato to manage the family company producing oil and wine.

They are all very elegant in jeans and moccasins, all "testament" to a current but timeless style that is undeniably Italian and famous throughout the world.

This is a book for enthusiasts of fashion and style, but it is also for those who love period interiors, city palaces, castles in the hills, and Italian landscapes, all ancient but alive and vibrant as ever.

Anna Dello Russo, until 2006 worked in Vogue Italia, currently fashion editor at Large & Creative Consultant, Vogue Nippon : "We Italians, have a very beautiful product that no one can beat, for quality, efficiency and tradition."

Here are some still scenes from the video that the campaign includes. Some really delicious shoots of villas, gardens and landscape near the Como lake.
To watch the clip, go on Tod's homesite.

The release of the book is dated on the 20th of October.