Costume Design II

Catalog description

Costume II builds on the foundation of a design process established in Costume I. The student will focus in depth on two or three dramatic texts each semester, reinforcing and expanding his/her/their evolving design process to include the execution of a complete costume design for each project. Each week will be a step in discovering, revealing, and refining his/her/their approach to the text, from the formation of an initial response, through research and image gathering, conceiving of an approach to the design articulated both verbally and visually, laying out the whole design in rough sketches, developing refined sketches, detail drawings, and completing fully swatched and painted designs. Students are expected to present a minimum of 12 sketches per week, building each week on the goals set by the previous week’s critique.