Museum Characters

Everytime I do this, I love it and I remind myself to do it more often. People always tell you to sketch people from life but you know how it goes, I rarely do. And it's always a challenge, especially in a museum were people move around change there positions and don't stay in the same place for a long time...The way I do it is that I look at the person, try do remember as many things about the general stature, postition and key features. Then I sketch it quickly and the people are usually gone by then. When I am home I then use these basic sketches and go over them in pen to give them more character and finish them from imagination.

I espcially like the guy on the bottom left ;)
xoxo Alex

Army circle skirt!

Hello there!
You people know how much I love contrasts and mixing different styles and ideas to make up completly new stuff-and this post is definetely a contrast!
The circle skirt below was inspired by the one I just finished making from a fabric than my awesome friend gave me for my birthday (I know that was a while ago but finally I used itXD) -thank you for that btw- it is a kind of brown/olive green like army coats used to be and very stiff.
Then one the blog Vintage Vandalism (to the left there is a link!) I saw pictures of amazing circle skirts and I immeadiatly know what the fabric was turning into :D

I love the contast between the truly femine skirt and the masculine fabric :D
xoxo Alex

PS: the girl in the picture is doing my favorite activity when I wear circle skirts-twirling!!! :P

Peplum blazer with pink pencil skirt!

Here comes the next peplum! Hi everyone-so I must admit-I actually kind of fell in love with peplums...which is quite remarkable considering that I hated them when they first popped up on the runways.
So todays "Think Pink" outfit is a little...unconvential. I was flipping through a magazine when I came across a Burberry jacket which inspired me to this one.
The color is a military kind of olive green which looks awesome in contrast with the pink leather pencil skirt. The jacket is closed until the top and is then secured in the waissline with a thin belt. From there the Peplum comes in fanning out over the waist.
I hope you like it!
xoxo Alex
PS: I decided that the black pen I have is to fat for drawing faces and I don't want to keep ruining my ladies with weird looking faces so for the moment they will be faceless but as soon as I find a thinner fibre pen I promise they willt get faces again!

Magazine Strip Skirt

Hello! I hope your all doing good because it is time for the first "Think Pink" design.
You might have noticed yesterday-I suddenly rediscovered my love for collages so I just carried on today.
To put it short-it is a skirt! Made up of lots of thin strips of magazine pages.
I would love to actually try this out in 3D but I guess you would figure out a way to make them stiffen-but I'm sure one could try...maybe I will sometime...
xoxo Alex

Soft Silky Skirt

Hello! :D You might have noticed but at the moment I'm experimenting with watercolors (e.g. watercolor princess dress or rose) so here's another outfit which I colored with watercolors.
The main piece in this outfit is definetely in the tulip skirt. It has a thin waistband with a small buckle and then goes down until about the knee. The effect that it looks like a tulip is because the lining on the inside is shorter than the outer fabric which causes the outer fabric to curve to the inside at the bottom.
Along wiht the orange shirt there's a simple light blue top and of course the essential brown laced leather boots.
xoxo Alex
PS: In case you're wondering-I cut off the head because again the black pen smudged when I went over it with water-any ideas on how I could solve that problem? Or pens which might not smudge?

Necklace with pendant

Hi there! I got inspired to this outfit at a concert I was at recently (a local band-nothing special :D). I loved the way a girl standing near me had styled her necklace so I decided to pick that up in one of my outfit.
The simple tanktop was spiced up with the necklace, which has a large round pendant on it. Along with that is a purple skit with a broad black waistband.-And of course the brown, laced leather boots to finish it off.
xoxo Alex

Red maxi Skirt

Hello everyone! Today I have for you a very different type of thing, than the ones from yesterday and the days before that. I was inspired to this kind of skirt when I was leafing through a book about India and they were wearing wonderfully long and wide robes (they weren't exactly saris but quite similar).
The skirt is very long and bright red. At the bottom it has a little bit of a pattern which is only indicated slightly in the picture.
It would be great as the bottom piece of your hippie outfit or with a plain black top.
xoxo Alex

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

Hippie skirt with jeans vest

Hey everyone-I absolutely love the concept f today's skirt and as soon as I find the awesome maxi skirt I'm looking for I'll definitely try this out.
It is as I already mentioned a long skirt in a very bright, firery fabric and a simple blue, a little oversized jeans vest. in the sketch I just left the outfit like that but you could definitely add lots of big jewelery (nothing intricate-it would just get lost in the oufit) and maybe a hat or a bandana.
xoxo Alex

Red and white peplum blouse

Hi! Today's outfit features something very popular this season-the peplum blouse. The peplum is basically a piece of fabric which is added at the bottom of the blouse or at the top top of the skirt. It is ruffled at the top so it fans out at the bottom. This visually slims the waist and adds to the hips, which makes the whole silhouette very feminine.
In this case the peplum is added to the blouse and the fabric matches with the fabric of the ribbon which is tied at the collar. The blouse is combined with a simple, classic pencil skirt.
This outfit has a very businessy style but peplums can also be used in a very casual or even rocker kind of style. Maybe I'll do a post with a different type sometime.
xoxo Alex

Navy blue pencil skirt

Heyho! Believe it or not, my next design was inspired by my old french teacher (amazing person by the way). She wore a navy blue pencil skirt with a broad waistband. I absolutely fell in love with it and now here is my own version. I made some changes but it is still quite similar.
I kept the high waistband and added the belt with the puffy bow in the front. Then I have two rather big pockets on the sides and the design is completed with the 4 different sizeds folds at the front.
Combined with a white blouse and some ballerinas this would make the cutest outfit.
xoxo Alex