 Hi everyone! Welcome back to another video this time featuring a couple fashion illustrations using the Fashionary Watercolor Postcard set. I haven't done fashion illustration videos here on my channel for the longest time. If you've been a longtime subscriber of mine you definitely would have been around the old fashion illustration videos so I'm pretty excited to actually be sharing this video with you guys because I'm hoping that it will kickstart more fashion illustration related videos here on my channel in the future. Fingers crossed! I will also be unboxing a new Fashionary product here on this video so stay tuned for that it actually inspired the illustrations that you are seeing right now. If you guys didn't know I am actually an affiliate of Fashionary so I do want to thank Fashionary for sending over the new product. I also have a discount code which you guys can use for any purchase of a Fashionary product on their website so the code is Zyra10. It gives you 10% off your entire purchase of Fashionary products on their website Fashionary.org and if you didn't know what Fashionary is they're basically known for their amazing sketchbooks which I have made a review video on so I will link that in the cards section of this video so you guys can check it out if you are interested. But that will not be the topic of today's video. Today's video I am featuring their latest product which they just launched this October. It is called textile pedia and it is a complete guide for everything that has to do with fabrics and textiles. So let's start with the unboxing then I'll kind of give you an impression that I have with the book any positive or negative reviews that I have for it and then I will also talk about how this relates to my second university degree which is costume design. Now with the packaging so the book comes in this cute drawstring bag which I think is a nice added touch for their packaging I'm not entirely sure if all Fashionary products come in this packaging but I have received a previous product from Fashionary as well that came in a drawstring bag and it was very useful I use it a lot for traveling so I love this nice touch. Inside the bag there's the book and there's also this blue plastic sleeve which contains their limited edition silk printed scarf it is so soft so gorgeous and I absolutely love the illustrations that are printed on the scarf it is amazing. Unfortunately they only actually have this scarf as a freebie to the first 1000 customers to purchase textile pedia but Fashionary just yesterday announced that all 1000 scarves are gone so if you're planning to purchase textile pedia from today and in the future you won't be getting the limited edition silk scarf unfortunately it's so beautiful I wish that you guys can have it as well when you're purchasing the book. However the book is amazing on its very own it's got this beautiful fabric cover an embroidered title which from a design perspective I think they just nailed it it's totally fitting to the theme of the book and it looks Instagram worthy you could use it as a decoration for your library your coffee table your shelf your workspace your office your studio it's just gorgeous so they also have the sides painted in this blue color because I think that's the theme that they have for this particular book they also have the pages which have the blue text printed on them as well as the chapter pages in this beautiful blue color and then the pages are also really thick which I feel like just set a new standard when it comes to books like this because the fact that the pages are thick just makes it feel like it's high quality inside the book there's also high quality images of the fabrics and the different materials that they talk about such as the different fibers and things like that now the book does not include actual real fabrics inside the pages that's just not possible especially for mass production so they only offer high quality prints however I do really like the fact that they've laid it out in such a way that it shows you the texture the thickness they've included more than one example of some of the fabrics in different colors and different patterns things like that I thought it was just really helpful one thing that I wish that they could have added as well that would be very helpful for me and I'm not sure if this would be helpful for other people as well I think it will but if they could have included images of dresses or shirts or furniture that were made by designers or people using a specific fabric for example if they had a page on organza they have the swatch there they have the application on how this fabric is commonly used whether it's used for gowns for dresses this that blah blah blah and then if they also had images underneath that of an organza dress or an organza shirt or I don't know and then having that kind of just helps me visualize the fabric in a larger scale as well because you do have a swatch but even though knowing that it's lightweight or it's heavyweight it would still be nice to really see it in its true application so like I said I don't know if that would be helpful for other people but it would definitely be helpful for me and the reason why this came up is because I was actually creating the illustrations inspired by textile pedia I decided to grab some fabrics that I saw on textile pedia fabrics that I've never heard of in my entire life and I was trying to search for a dress that I could illustrate I was on Pinterest and I just type in the fabric name and then I put the word dress or gown right after it and then I click search now a lot of the images that were showing up did not have the name of the fabric in the description which kind of makes sense I don't know maybe a lot of people didn't really know that the fabric existed as well but it just made it hard for me to visualize what the fabric would look like as a gown or as a dress so that's just my two cents either way I do think that textile pedia offers a lot of information and really good information especially if you are within the field of fashion fashion design or costume design so if you are interested in purchasing textile pedia as well as any products from fashionaries such as the postcard that I'm using in this video or the sketchbook that I mentioned earlier in this video I will link all of those in the description box and you can definitely use my code which is Xyra 10 shown here on the screen for 10% off your entire purchase on their website that's 10% off using my code Xyra 10 and once again those are all in the description box down below so like I said earlier in the video I will be talking about my experience with costume design as a degree and that kind of ties in with textile pedia because that's one of the reasons why I wanted to own this book in the first place. Vicky from Fashionary contacted me about a product that they were trying to launch and if I was interested and I was like yes please I am currently studying my second university degree this time it is on costume design and we had this assignment in my costume making class where we had to analyze a costume render from a costume designer and identify the fabrics that they wanted the costume made of after that we then had to source the fabric find out information about said fabric and more specifically information on how you can actually make the costume with the fabric sewing techniques other techniques that you would need specifically for that fabric so that information I had to research and I'm not very good at researching so it was very hard for me to actually do the assignment and when I found out about this product I was like I wish I had this when doing my assignment it would have made it so much easier to have one source of information that is all about fabrics I was trying to find information on the internet and it was from a lot of different sources here and there and I was also basing it around information that I knew so I could only really search for fabrics that I knew existed I didn't know half of the fabric types that was mentioned in textile pedia and they would have been useful for my assignment had I known they existed in the first place so that is why I wanted to actually have textile pedia in my possession because I think it will be very useful for me with this degree I highly doubt that that would be the first and last kind of fabric sourcing costume assignment that we do so I'm looking forward to future assignments where I can just bust this out bring this to my university when we're out of lockdown here in Melbourne and use it as a guide for assignments like that in the future and I think it'll also be very helpful for me as I try to establish a career in that field now I haven't really talked about this new degree here on my channel and I'm not entirely sure if that's something that you guys are interested in listening to I know a lot of people back then requested for me to do videos talking about my experience with architecture which was my very first degree I didn't really talk about that because it is sad to say but also long story short I am not an architect I did not end up as an architect I am working as a freelance graphic designer so I didn't really make use of that degree so that's kind of long forgotten but anyway some people also requested for me to talk about my experience with graphic design and I did briefly but that video didn't really do well so now I'm kind of like curious if you guys would actually like to see a video of me talking about my experience with costume design and my experience with university at the moment I would like to include that in a studio vlog here and there but I'm not entirely sure if that's content that you guys are willing to see so let me know in the comments down below and maybe I can share my experience any thoughts that I have so far with that degree I don't see a lot of videos specifically about costume design so I think that that would be some great content that I can contribute here on YouTube I am also doing costume design specifically for live theater or live performance it's different to study costume design for film those are two different mediums but as a costume designer for live performance I can also do costume design for film and television and vice versa I believe so yeah like I said let me know if you guys would like to see more content from me regarding that topic now with the illustrations like I said I wanted to illustrate fabrics that I saw from the textile pedia book and because I was having a hard time actually searching for the fabrics that I wanted to include I decided to just go for the basic ones that I already knew it was just easier to find dresses for reference and that's what we ended up with there are only two videos that you are seeing for the illustrations but so far I have made four and I kind of want to continue making a few more post them on Instagram and also post them on my shop as original postcards or original watercolor postcards so maybe you want to purchase an original art for me but the only ones that I have there are around the 100 ranges this one's going to be a lot cheaper than that because it's relatively small so I will be putting that up in my shop as well as other other ones or other illustrations that I create in the future also just on that topic as well I am currently preparing for a new shop update with a lot of products coming to you guys next month hopefully just before the year ends so stay tuned for that and with everyone that's purchased from my shop I just want to say thank you so much for your support towards my art and this thing that I'm trying to establish here I really really appreciate it and I think that's about it for me with this video so I'm just going to end that there 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