Wedding dress draft 1

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Ok, I drew (or is it I have drawn?) a wedding dress draft 1. What I wrote in it pretty much explained it all and though it seems easy which to me was easy at the time I was drawing it, I realised much later to actually make the so called 3 layers of lace or flexi bow and etc is not easy at all since I have none of the tools. But I am happy to see that I can still draw as in designing draw which I was very good at when I was little until I abandoned it in my late teens. In fact I was very good at hair blowing in the wind, dress blowing in the wind, girl standing with her dress blowing in the wind… anyway now my hand is a bit shaky but I was pretty amazed I could still draw pretty decently. I think I will try to make this wedding dress which of course will be white. I will now look or maybe create my own texture. Must look inworld first so as to save myself some Linden cash but if not I suppose more camping. The trickiest part had to be the veil since I can’t make jewelry and all but I have some ready clips to use by other famous SL designer so that wouldn’t be much of a problem on second thought. Nope, the problem is Linden cash and add having to make the dress flexy and draw it and animate it and whatever as the problems. Come to think of it the entire operation is a problem. Once I get my graphic tablet I am sure I can draw it easily although I have to learn shading, texture, pattern and etc but without the tablet and some useful tools inworld it would be a difficult but not impossible task. Hopefully I can get it done.

I must make a disclaimer though. If there happens to be a similar design, frankly I didn’t know about it. I rarely see wedding gowns inworld and rarely distributed free which are of decent quality. I came up with this design after 2 days of thinking how to make a simplest design to ease my torture in actually drawing it later. So this is my original design but frankly most wedding gowns are basically the same if you ask me. I am going for the more traditional and yet revealing look for no particular reason other than the fact I don’t know how to make puffy shoulder pads and such. Maybe later.

A promise though. If it is decent as in good I will distribute this dress for free inworld subject to finding someone willing to host the gown inworld. It may not be much but I suppose it is a stepping stone.

Now I must go back to drawing dress blowing in the wind, maybe add some hurricane effect to it!

Anyway I will document my progress online for those who are curious how does one make a gown for avatars. Frankly I don’t know myself which is great since we are all learning. If you’re reading this and you know a thing or two about drawing clothes, a bit of pointers would be most helpful.

Wish me luck.