100th Post Anniversary-a sandal

Hello everyone!
First of all-I'd like to thank all of you dear readers who keep faith in me and vvisit my blog every day-I can't explain how much it means to me when people say that my work has inspired them, helped them or they just enjoyed looking through my sketches. It is this blog's anniversary today-together we have managed 100 posts some better some worst and before this becomes horribly cheesy post let's get on with it!
I didn'T actually plan to write this post so late but well I guess you can say I was quite busy today :D I told you yesterday that this weekend I would be visting this workshop for fashion and costume design at our local Volkshofschule-well the first day was awesome already! We started off studying on how to draw the human body and how to change the proportions to create a character (i.e. long and prominent or fat and chubby). Then we chose one of 5 plays which we could use as a theme-mine was Alice in Wonderland (<3) and made a mood board. This was very interesting because well, apart from being my first mood board, it was a new way for me to look at design and I definitely like it. Maybe I will find a way to create more of them and then put them on here too because I think they are just a wonderful way of capturing the feeling, the atmosphere of what you want to create and they are much more effective than texts like this XD
Tomorow we will start actually designing some clothes and when I get home you bet I'll post some here.

Trainers for a Princess

Hi everyone!
I can't wait to tell you-on the weeked I'll be busy doing a fashion and costume design workshop! My first "real" lessons in this field (apart from the usual art lessons at school :D) so I'm really excited what I'll learn! So I'll definitely keep you posted on that :D
So let's get to today's design.Obviously it is a shoe and it is a kind that a few months a go I saw everywhere but wasn't so in love with it yet, and now I'm in love with it and I can't find it anywhere XD

Laced High-heels inspired by Native American Patterns

Hi! I hope you're all having a nice Thursday evening, I certainly am :D I'll be enjoying the next season of the Voice of Germany tonight so I definitely look forward to that! (Go team Rea! :D)
I don't know why but I took to enjoying drawing shoes-they are so nice, with logical shapes (at least from the side :D) and you can actually draw detailed patterns on them-even though it is very time consuming!
Today's design is of course a shoe and again it is a laced high-heel however it is pretty different from yesterday's.

Laced neon Plateau heels :D

Hi everyone!
I hope you're all doing good-I am even though I see to be quite cold because here in Germany, fall has decided to kick in (one day 20°C-7°C the next...) and I'm not really into the the warm clothes mode yet :D
I was inspired to today's shoes when I watched this video from Diane von Fürstenbürg's Spring Collection (see Inspiration page for the link) and the actual shoes were quite faraway so they looked like different ones. So I picked up that idea and kind of turned it into two differnt shoes (not entirely on purpose XD).

Inspirational Monday-Shoemania!!

Hi everyone!
You might have noticed-I cannot draw feet. All the shoes/feet on my figurines from the front look crippled. SO-I decided to do something about it! This week is going to be all about shoes and feet!
I already did some research and watched some videos on "how to draw feet" and "how to draw shoes" (just type it into youtube and you'll find plenty-I especially like the ones by Mark Crilley despite his Manga kind of style).
So here we go ladies (and gents of course! XD)-it is shoe time! :D

Dancing Shoe

Hi! Here comes the next shoe for you! I struggled for a long time to draw any kind of high heeled shoe because they look "deformed" so quickly but I think this one turned out quite well.
It is mainly black with some red dots and a flower at the front.
I hope you like it :D
xoxo Alex
PS: yes the toe is oversized-don't ask me why ;)

Skull Skirt

Hey guys! Yesterday I promised that I would show you a better type of skirt to use with rockerstyle outfits so here you go!
Believe it or not princessy elements, like this wide, pink skirt with a petticoat are very popular in this scene. Of course you definetely shouldn't overdo it and never have more than one element in your outfit but they add contrast in to the look which makes the whole outfit interesting!
So as I said, this skirt is wide and princessy butto make sure it is not misunderstood there is a (rather cute) skull on the side. It was combined with a simple black tanktop, laced leather boots and a small black leather bag.
I hope you like it!
xoxo Alex

Burgundy Blouse with Jeans Vest

Hello everyone. I'm sorry that today's post is so late but I just returned from a trip and haven't had much time in front of the computer yet. I was inspired to today's design while watching "Pretty little liars". I must admit I just watched because I had only ever heard of it and I wanted to know whether it was worth watching.
The base is a burgundy colored blouse and three-quater length black trousers. Over it she is wearing a simply blue jeans vest, a black bow-tie (which I loooove-you'll see some more of them the next few days) and some strapped high-heels.
xoxo Alex

Colorblocked Pumps

Hey! YES-another shoe! Very different from the first one though!
Remember when colorblocking was so popular and you could basically find it everywhere? Well-I liked that time so here is my first colorblocking pump.
I started off with an idea for a sandal which (where now the red parts are) was open but I didn't really like it that way. So basically I closed it there and colored the new parts red.
You could spice any outfit up with this shoe, whether it is a black dress or jeans with a simple T-shirt. You could wear it to work or to a night out. Again another very adaptable design.
xoxo Alex

Leather boot

Hello! I thought about whether to post this for rather a long while but then I decided I do actually like it so I'll put it up.
Its origin was a little doodle on the top of my page and then I tried to enlarge it to fill the whole paper but in the end I liked the doodle better. 

It is a leather boot whose shaft ends just after the ancle. A very simply design which, depending on how you tie the laces and look casual or more businesslike. I myself have a pair similar to this and I love it dearly!
xoxo Alex