Spirit

Making dress designs was one of the most fun parts of the sketching process. Originally, the forest spirit had a long, elegant neck, with a petal choker, off the shoulder dress, long dramatic sleeves and a corset. The sleeves were quickly removed – they took away from the drama of her décolletage. The original corset was very snug and rested right underneath her chest. Throughout my sketches, it came and went, depending upon how I felt. My sketches were very stylized, and I made her dress bigger, badder and more dramatic with each iteration. But then I had to take a step back and think, would a forest spirit really wear this? So I cleaned the drawing board, and made her dress an upside down tulip. I transformed the lacing of the corset into tendrils that swirled around her body. The final look was simplistic and elegant.