I made a dressmaking croquis of myself. Croquis can mean any kind of fashion sketch (it's just French for sketch), but it's often used to mean an outline drawing of yourself used as a template. The idea is that you can then overlay the technical drawings pattern companies provide to see if you like the look of the clothes on yourself before making them and to see if there's anything that looks like it will need changing or will be a fitting problem right from the outset. A lot of people on sewing blogs have been trying it recently, inspired by the Colette sewing book, and I thought I'd give it a go. My poor sewing machine's been neglected for a while. and last week I started finishing off some dressmaking projects and making some things I need (to be posted when finished).
When I was at school we used some ancient computer program to try to produce one in textile class. It was terrible, you gave the computer various measurements and it drew what you apparently looked like, but all of them were wrong and made most people look like they had something seriously wrong with their legs. I used the much simpler method of quickly tracing round a photo of myself (there's something weirdly satisfying about using Photoshop like it's MS Paint). I spent hardly any time doing it, and the results are hardly polished graphics, but I just wanted to see the results quickly. I'm not sure how useful the whole thing actually was, especially because some of the drawings are not the length I'd actually make the things in, but it was fun anyway.
Front view, with gormless dot face. I'm pretty much the same proportions as they give on the sizes of the envelope, but I do have some fitting problems ...
