Collections and Sketches

Hi! I know it's been a while and I've been busy! We just got settled into our apartment after 7 long months of trying to get on our feet. Don't get it twisted though, I've been very diligently working on my collection and some sketches.

Well...here is what actually happened. My nerves were in such a bad place that I ended up having to sketch for my sanity's sake. It seemed to be the only thing I could do to settle my nerves! I mean I know I'm not the only one who's ever done it in history. According to my art professor in college Piccaso actually painted an entire painting with a woman hurling dishes at his head. Art is a peaceful craft, but I don't know how peaceful I'd be with a dish flying at my head.

During this time I made it my business to create a more structured collection. I had created this collection back in February for Valentines Day, and I actually ended up in the hospital for some reason. So just this May I went to the library and I did a portion of my power point slide. Here is what I came up with:

I actually couldn't add music because I used a free limited version of Microsoft Power Point on my OneDrive account, and for the record it is very much a life saver. I mean it would be awesome to have the full version on my OneDrive account so that I can really create my collection as I desired but it was enough for the time. I recommend to any student in college a OneDrive Account. This way there will be no need to actually have a physical laptop of your own around, or even if you do have a laptop but just can't afford the software it is a really good investment to get a free account.

Now onto my sketches...I have way more that I've drawn since, including some rendering practice I've done, but here are some of my sketches and drawings that I practiced hard on. Now excuse the blurred colors in the footage because I was unable to use professional markers and colored pencils. I actually did these at the library with some crayola's, and as someone who's so adapted to using Prismacolor markers and colored pencils I actually see the difference. Trust me though, once my supply of art materials comes that I will be back to using what I'm more adapted to using. If you want to take a look at my work, here is a link to my work on instagram:

Video Sketches

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What's New?

It has been a while that I've written in the New Creature Fashion Blog, however that doesn't mean that things have not been in motion concerning Kana Wear LLC. Progress is being made slowly but surely and I am grateful for the progress that is being made. Several things have happened from having donors, to new creations and I wanted to share a few things about it!

1.The New Creature Newsletter

I've made an update to my newsletter, and I'm currently trying to figure out the software to send it to everyone on a mailing list. Basically the problem is that I designed this beautiful Newsletter in Microsoft Word, which has a few hot topics concerning what's going on in the World of Kana Wear LLC. It even has a short story that I wrote myself introducing 1 new character of 5 from my new series Nerdy Chic. Getting people to subscribe to my newsletter is not as easy as I thought, and on top of this all the software that I have seen has this feature where they have templates to create the newsletter-but not to send one that's already designed and attach it. It's kind of frustrating when your life is DIY and you put all your time and effort into making something amazing just for the idea to be put to waste. So for right now I'll be sending the newsletter directly. If you have not subscribed yet to read my newsletter, then please go to my website at www.kanawear.com and scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, and put in your email address. I only send one monthly and it usually has updates to cover an entire month.

2. Hair Jewelry/Accessories

Okay I have a confession to make, I've sort of been obsessing about this hair jewelry craze secretly. Especially when it comes to creating something unique. I've been buying $1 bags of hair jewelry from the beauty supply store (12 ct) and I've been taking about 6 and designing them. The other half I leave plain because these come in handy for accent.
I hate to say I jumped on the hair jewelry bandwagon all of a sudden, so here's somewhat of a back story. I was into hair jewelry back in High School. I was already making hair bows, and barrettes as well as some other hair accessories so hair jewelry for me consisted of an earring hoop the size of a quarter and some beads. My mother didn't like it very much and actually forbade me to walk out of the house with these random ringlets hanging off the ends of my braids. Honestly I wasn't very good at braiding and well...my hair wasn't great looking when I did this style because of that, so it did my accessories no justice. Anyway, I never tried to make hair jewelry again until now, and it's a craze! This thing that I was inspired to do while listening to "A Colorful World" by Cece Winans on the Purified album actually became somewhat of a trending thing and I was in shock. In case you don't know what I'm saying in that song she says in the lyrics "She wears nose rings with weird things floating through her hair. She is slightly embarrassed by everyone who stares, and when she walks away you might say she's a little wild, but she can rule the world when she opens up her mouth and smiles...It's a colorful World that we live in!" To me even though I had no nose rings and probably wouldn't get one if you paid me-I sure could have things in my hair. I made accessories anyway so this would have just been a step up for me.
Now I not only make beaded barrettes, hair bows, head bands, but now I make hair jewelry, and I've added in a little extra by beading bobby pins with wire. I intend on selling them as a total kit together, and be made up of at least 5 items. First I was just going to do 3 but then I thought about it again. Why would someone just want 3 items? I would want way more if I saw that in a store, so I'm coming up with some other things in addition to those things as well.
Here's a picture of what that may compose of in the future. It will probably be better than this, but it's a start

3. YouTube Ideas

Nothing has made me more stuck than what the New Creature Fashion Channel will bring. It's inevitable that I will have tutorials up, but I was wondering what that one element will be that will help my channel to stand out. I believe that I already have a concept down, however I want a little more flava' as I used to put it when I first started out. So I've been thinking-add everything I love in the Arts. I want to tell a story, not just create fashionable looks. It needs to be Creative, Fun, and Informational as well. So I'm currently developing the entire concept and what it will be about in every episode. I'd love to continue to randomly post, but I do believe a little structure would bring me the look I'm trying to pull off. If you have any ideas, don't be shy about sharing-just email me directly at kanawear91@gmail.com and in the Subject line put "YouTube Ideas-(Your Name)" I'll try to put a credit to you in the end of the episode or maybe in the description."

In general everything seems to be going in a positive direction concerning the #KanaWearCampaign. If you haven't already donated don't worry, just go to www.gofundme.com/kanawearcampaign. I've had this campaign for 2 years and everyone is just now beginning to contribute. There is so much more to running this campaign than a few pictures. It takes pure vision, and I have that!
In fact I show others that I believe in myself by creating for myself. I enjoy wearing my products, and a good majority of the time it is what increases my sales! I wear them with confidence and flair! It's my motive to breed new creatures in making my product, and I hope that in the future my creations encourage individuality.