Reflection: Week 6

   For this blog post, I would just want to personally thank God again for putting me in the right course hehe. I've done this several times after I've spent time attending my major subjects and working on the course requirements. This week, I realized another sign that showed me why Clothing Technology was the right program for me. It's kind of a shallow reason actually. It's the fact that our subjects require us to have our individual croquis books. Croquis is a French word for sketch. Basically, this notebook should be treated like our portable scratch paper, where we could jot down, draw, paint or record our ideas and inspirations. I saw this as a sign because that is how I work as a person. I've always seen myself as creative and I've trained myself to generate several ideas and never limit myself when it comes to brainstorming. I've been collecting notebooks for as long as I could remember, and probably it's because of the fact that I like recording/documenting my experiences and ideas and that nostalgic feeling you get when you open a notebook you haven't touched in years. I've always had that one notebook I would carry anywhere in case I get bored or a source of inspiration would pop-up but I never knew it could be called a croquis book. Our prof also told us that in fashion schools abroad, they really value the designer's croquis book because it is there wherein you'll see the authenticity and the development of the design. 
   
   At first, I wasn't as comfortable in freely writing things on my croquis maybe because most of the stuff we'd put in it were required by our profs and would also be checked by our profs. When I nosily looked into everyone else's croquis, I got a bit jealous of how they were filled with doodles drawn during boring classes or just documenting what inspired them. Then I decided to treat my croquis just as how I've treated my treasured notebooks. 

   I've discovered that I'm the kind of person who takes note of every detail possible and who respects even the smallest ideas. The croquis caters to the way I work as a designer and a creative mind. For all of you out there who believe they have great ideas or are just inspired to do a lot of things, I recommend get a croquis of your own :-)