Test Day... again?

So, I after I finished my post last time, I was messaged about taking the test the next morning, which would have been yesterday morning. That set me off for a night of virtual sewing and tucking, perfecting and situating. I did one business casual and one business formal.

I presented business casual first. They seemed to like the look. They liked my brooch. Thank you, Suki, for helping me to attach the silly floating thing properly. lol They seemed to like most of my poses choices, there were one or two questionable ones and one completely unsuitable, but its school and a test, learning is the purpose after all.

So then, while the other girl was presenting one of her test outfits, I changed into my business formal. They seemed to like that one as well. Apparently it was a brave choice to use a brooch in one outfit and a hand bag in the other. haha. I had no idea. I just made what I thought looked good, not what I thought would be an easy grade.

Anyway....  I passed! :D

Onward to advanced modeling and one step closer to being on the runway or in a store near you. :) Not sure when the next classes start as the instructors are still testing. That means I get a break and right now, Im off to treat myself for a job well done at 60 Linden Weekends.

Test Day!

So today was test day.. and it was a disaster from start to finish. I was only able to complete 2 of 3 outfits and told my instructor so before class. It turns out that neither of the other 2 students were prepared either, so out test was postponed until next Wednesday. All I can say is one great big.. WHEW!



So, here is my business casual:

And here is my business formal:

As I said, I did not finish my cocktail presentation and now that I have a lot more time, I'm going to choose something else.

Even though I was prepared to present, Im glad I didnt actually have to present today. I had a few issues and I didnt have time to ask about them or didnt know if I should, but now I have asked and now I have some solutions that will make for a MUCH better walk about the stage. :)

One of the problems I had was my walk for business casual. Every walk I had in my inventory had my avatars thigh breaking through the hem of the dress with every step. Unacceptable, I know, but I simply did not have time to go find another that did work. As it turns out, after class I went to find a walk that would work and after going through all the ladies walks at Vista Animations I started standing on the pose stands for the mens AO's out of sheer frustration. lol Naturally, one of them worked, it didnt send my thigh through my hem. The walk was otherwise unusable because it was obviously a mans gait, but I did notice that the thighs widened before the animation started so that gave me an idea. My idea was to edit my appearance and then widen my avatars hips in the shape just a few notches. It worked perfectly. Now every walk in my inventory will work. Now I can choose a walk based on how well it captures the spirit of the outfit and not whether my thighs show when they arent supposed to! hehe So, thats something I learned today. :)

Still Plugging Along.

I have my business formal ready, so, two down, one to go. Cocktail up next and then its pose picking time for all 3 outfits.

Dear SL,

There is a serious lack of business formal wear on the Marketplace. Just sayin'. :D

Trinket

Okay back to the grindstone. Muahaha!

In Progress

Ive spent the afternoon working on my business casual outfit. I like it. The poses will be a pain, but Im sure Ill find at least five. Working on Business Formal tomorrow.

Intermediate classes at DMA.

My instructor for Intermediate classes had a bigger class than the one I was in so they were a little further behind than I was so I finished two weeks before my intermediate classes began.

I have to admit that first couple of days after my cocktail glam text were heaven. No homework to worry about, no thoughts of outfits whirling around in my head. These classes are far more extensive and therefore more time consuming than I expected, so the break was nice. I spent the time redoing part of my house and then.. boredom. I found I was anxious to get back to class and to tide myself over until then, I styled an outfit for a styling challenge that I fully intended to enter, but circumstances forbade my attendance, but still I had styled an outfit for the challenge's theme, Vintage: Great Gatsby.

As I said, circumstances did not allow me to enter because on both days I had to be away from home for real life. I think it turned out well, but since I was not able to attend or enter, the styling was not critiqued. It served its purpose any way, because intermediate classes began right after.

 For our first class we were to put on a dress, any dress and walk the stage - 3 stops, 3 poses. I chose this dress: 

Our next assignment was to choose a dress, NON mesh and style it and choose 5 poses for it. I decided to do a longer, more formal type dress and I also tried to do a monochrome theme with it, not because it was part of the assignment, but just because I wanted to.

Our next assignment consisted of the ugliest dress I believe I have ever seen. Our goal was to fix it up to make it as attractive as possible, which is just not all that possible in this case. hehe.

And this brings us to present where we are tasked with what our instructor calls our mid-term, which is to style and choose poses for 3 fashion genres; business casual, business formal and cocktail.

Ill post the pics once I have presented them in class. Wish me luck! :)

Slacker blogger and beginner classes at DMA.

My name is Trinket and I have been a slacker. I started this blog when I started modeling school, partly so I could journal my experiences and also to chronicle the change of my look from non model to model.

Since I last posted I have completed beginner classes and am preparing for the last test of intermediate. In the beginner classes at Dallas Modeling Academy, with Elisabet Lilliehook (Eli), I learned alot about styling and about genres of fashion, particularly formal, casual, urban chic, avant garde and glam cocktail.

This was homework where we were to style both a casual outfit and a formal outfit. The one above is my casual submission and the one below is my formal submission.

Next, we were challenged to style an urban chic outfit. What's Urban Chic, you ask? Look it up, lol, I had to. Its a fashion look crossed between business and casual, with elements of both, like a blazer paired with army pants as I did in my homework for this styling.

Next up, Avante Garde. :) My instructor in particularly liked this one. I saw the hair and it made me think oriental, so I chose and styled the outfit to match the hair. hehe.

For my beginner final, we were assigned to choose and style a cocktail glam outfit. I liked the way this one came out.

I passed and so I went on to intermediate classes with Suki.

Part of the reason I wanted to do this blog is to see how my look changes from when I began and when I finish. This is what I looked like when I went DMA the first time.

 

This is how I looked for my first class. I noticed in this class that my avatar, who I thought was quite tall, is very short compared to the instructors and the other girls in my class.

And this is how I looked for my second class. This is so much fun. hehe