Illustrations: bringing ideas to life

I have not posted for a while simple due to life. The school year started again, I had several projects to work on for customers (Hurrah!) and I am still slogging away at dH linen pants.
One of my customers brought back some fabulous Batiks from Africa and it has been a lot of fun working with her to create some outfits.
I will post some updates photos of that soon. I also signed up for two online Craftsy classes: Shoot-it: on how to take better photo's, much needed here and The couture dress.Although I have not been able to do much with either class, I have had fun looking for and then buying the fabric for the dress, a lovely soft green Duponi silk:

Another positive step forward though is that I have started to take some drawing classes so that I can put some of my ideas for costumes on paper. Today we learned more about different types of lines. It may look very simple to try to draw a line on paper, but it isn't. After practicing straight, curved and wavy lines, we worked on creating Laura Birch inspired drawings of cat's

This is not my drawing but my sketch looks a lot like this.
My next plan is to start working on some costume designs for tutus I would like to build to offer as rental. My ultimate goal is to someday be able to make sketches and illustrations like this Leon Baskt illustration: