wow, i have updated quite recently :p

yes, i am smug.

well this late night post is also quite self gratifying. I have spent around two hours on this and i wanted to show the wood engraved art style i've been trying to emulate.
This image is copied from the victorian harpers bizarre book and is a summer gown and hat designed in 1894.

I have also read a fair amount of Fashion and Womens Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century by Cecil Cunnington. The writing style is a 'wordy' convoluted mess, leaving a very small amount of information to be displayed with any sense of clarity.
This book should be a golden egg for my research, but it has left me dissapointed. My main gripe comes from the fact that some bloke from the 1930's would be able to understand the female psyche of women from the century previous using rare quotes from historical documents.
To his credit, this may well have been quite 'out there' for its time dealing with gender conflicts and relationships as a science.

A Study in Scarlet

Lately i've been doing alot of different types of research focusing on narrartive (Sherlock Holmes, Dickens), academic theory (Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat) and visual, both primary (with a visit to strangers hall) and secondary (internet and book based on victorian histories, fashion and art styles of the time. Thankfully, for my own sanity, I have also done a little bit of my own artwork. This comes in the form of sillouettes and victorian wood engraved illustration. I will post the latter after it has been scanned.

Listening: Funeral for a Friend, Memory and Humanity

Come Back Around

Just to get myself organised here's a research title page i've been working on. Things are coming together nicely. Its just getting everything presentable with a degree of clarity ^_^ that's the problem.

I finished notes on Sheri Graner Ray's Gender Inclusive Game Design book today. This is the second time i've read this book and its surprisingly accesable for an academic piece. This will go to research for my current project and my dissertation.

Yesterday i picked up a victorian painting book and a Dickens overview book, for further research.

Also I downloaded 4OD and have watched the Victorian Uncovered series. I'll have the notes on here soon i expect.

I'll update progress later. I have a feeling me and neongoat's scanner are going to be sharing alot of time together today.