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Georgina Owen

Georgina Owen

I love opera, ballet, the theatre, reading the classics and fashion. I enjoy learning new skills and subjects.

Location Sheffield

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  • Hello I am Georgina from Sheffield and I am a student of English literature with 3 pet cats

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    I love reading fiction and I really want to start writing

  • Fantastic course, glad to be on it, cannot wait to start writing

  • So excited, I love reading novels and cant wait to start writing

  • Thank you

  • I really enjoyed this exercise, I have always wanted to write and have thought about it but I have never actually started so it felt good to start typing

  • I wandered through the woods, sunshine broke through the trees while families with children explored the Autumnal colourful scene. I went deeper and deeper until the sunlight was blocked by the trees and all sounds stopped. I was alone but I didn't feel lonely or scared, only curious with a strange desire to continue, as if my feet already knew the way

  • I love keeping a diary and want to start writing, I will start journaling

  • I think it can be taught but it depends on the techniques and the teacher, I look forward to studying creative writing

  • Really interesting article, we need to learn from the past so history is not repeated

  • Really interesting, I am going to study creative writing in my English Literature degree and cannot wait

  • Thank you so much for this amazing course

  • I love to keep a diary and write down how I am thinking and feeling, It really helps me to relax and understand and to remember what happened

  • This is a fantastic course, I have always wanted to be a writer

  • I love designers, especially haute couture and accessories such as jewellery and hand bags

  • Hello I am Georgina from Sheffield, UK. I am very interested in this course and hope to learn alot, especially about design. I love fashion illustration and would love a career in this subject

  • We do not need fur, fair fur is amazing and cruelty free

  • We can all make a difference, I love fashion and caring for the planet

  • fashion is about the future and making change for the better

  • I love this statement, be compassionate and brave

  • Zero waste is desperately needed to stop waste and land fill, we need to care for our planet for a better future for all

  • I found the recent Covid pandemic was inspirational for fashion and I started making and designing face masks, fashion is a reaction to current events

  • I love visiting museums and art galleries, so inspiring but I need to improve my drawing skills , I love finding inspiration in different places

  • I love visiting museums such as the V and A and watching films and television programmes, mainly period dramas as I very inspired by history

  • Hi everyone, I love fashion design and want to work in illustration and improve my portfolio on this course, I am from Sheffield and have studied clothing design for 2 years in Manchester

  • useful advice thanks

  • great links thanks

  • microsoft teams

  • I always thought movies was American and films were English ? reading and understanding films is essential to fully enjoy and get everything out of the experience, I love going to the cinema. total escape from reality

  • I am studying English Literature and want to learn all about films and film adaptions of books

  • this looks to be a very useful week

  • collaberation and soft skills were key this week, great week

  • I find digital books very different from physical, digital are lighter but I much prefer physical books with more of a connection and ability to turn the page and feel the book

  • Amazing to see such historic books, beautifully written and illustrated

  • A brilliant video investigating such historic. books

  • This week sounds very interesting, I love visiting a library and reading different books

  • Comparison is very important to learn and grow, I really enjoyed learning from this week as I am from England, UK

  • Hello I am Georgina from Sheffield and an avid reader and studying English Literature

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    Thank you for this advice, it is important to be respectful and kind

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    I have not heard of this before but it is really interesting and great to see more covered up fashion

  • I really struggle with hands snd feet so I will practice to improve my illustrations

  • Thank you for the tips and beautiful illustrations, I will work on improving my heads and faces

  • Thank you forcthe advice, my poses can look flat and still so I will analyse poses and make them more lifelike and add movement

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    Thank you so much for this fantastic course. I have really enjoy learning about fashion design after leaving my fashion design course at university. I will work on my portfolio of illustrations

  • I'm really looking forward to creating a portfolio of work, I have really enjoyed getting back into fashion design and illustration last week

  • Beautiful drawings, you can really see and understand the clothing shown

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    I love the colour in Petra's illustration, I like to use a pen as it is quicker to draw with , I will practice with this advice thanks

  • Thank you for these tips, I love the elongation of the body and the focus on the clothes, I will work on improving my illustrations

  • I love Megan Hess, very stylish and feminine illustrations, I hope to improve my own fashion illustration skills

  • I loved the fashion history last week and I have taught myself fashion illustration so Im very interested and hoping to learn a lot this week

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    This really explained Orientalism for me , thank you
    My advice is to do your research, such as fashion history books and the Victoria and Albert fashion collection

  • My favourite designer is Worth, such classic and beautiful designs

  • I love fashion history and have learnt so much on this step, thank you as it is so easy to understand in bullet points. My favourite fashion is the Victorians and the corsets

  • I have done some fashion drawing by myself . I was studying clothing design at university but left in the first year due to lack of support and not enough technical skill, wish I hadn't, always loved fashion and design and want to get back into the fashion world, especially illustration

  • Looking forward to every topic this week, especially fashion over time and fashion over the world

  • Hello I love fashion design and fashion history, I want learn all about fashion and be able to draw fashion illustrations, my icons are Coco Chanel and Christian Dior

  • Fantastic advice and looking forward to learning a lot this week

  • I will definitely try this, thank you, really struggling at the moment to find an idea for a story

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    I love studying history and English at University as I get to do so much research reading

  • I have lots of notebooks but I forget to take then with me, I will start using them and writing down my observations and interesting words

  • Great inspiration, I am still struggling to write a full story

  • I write very quickly and need to go over my first draft to add order and detail, great advice thanks

  • I try to think of all the senses and write them in detail, such as smell and colour

  • Lucinda sank in to a deep, soft leather armchair, she was finally alone in her study and was able to write down all she had observed

  • I will start keeping a journal

  • I love keeping a diary and will start writing down my observations, I love to people watch

  • a notebook is a fantastic idea, I will start taking a notebook with me and be more observant

  • Fashion is fantastic, global and about and change and growth, looking forward to learning more this week

  • Hi I am Georgina from Sheffield studying English Literature and I am an avid runner

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    I love learning with Future Learn and cant wait to start writing

  • Thank you for the advice

  • Looking forward to learning more about sustainability this week

  • Thank you for these fantastic links, clothing tells so many stories, I love vintage dresses and thinking about the people who have worn the dresses before. I have some jewellery that belonged to my great grandmother that makes me think of her when I wear them

  • Great image and process, very simple and effective method

  • I loved learning about storytelling in fashion, really interesting week

  • Artisan is a word I have heard a lot recently, I take it to meaning that something is handmade with quality items and is the opposite to mass produced low quality products

  • I love this concept and have not heard of it before, storytelling makes sustainability more relatable and understandable

  • This is fantastic, I love English and fashion and would love yo write, I love novels with fashion in them like The Woman In white, stories make everything more personal and relatable, like news events and historical events

  • We all have power to use fashion to tell our own stories and be ourselves, diversity and respect are key both in fashion and life

  • Hello I am Georgina from Sheffield, Uk snd I live fashion, I have studied fashion design and now studying english literature, I love fashion history

  • Hello Im from Sheffield and I love fashion

  • Such a useful week, lots to learn

  • Very inspiring week , great

  • Finding what makes me individual and finding customers is key

  • Really interesting and helpful audio

  • I feel more prepared now

  • Sounds like s fantastic week, will be great to write a reflection

  • I love the use of language

  • Fascinating to learn about him, language is vital and would give him so many choices and more freedom

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    hello everyone, glad to learn from you

  • thank you for the advice

  • It has been very hard to start writing and I am glad Ive started now

  • This is fascinating to learn about and Ive never heard about black Tudors before, really looking forward to learning more

  • This is is really interesting to see but it has changed so much recently with the price of cinema tickets and streaming services

  • I love comedy and think horror does well, films come out so quickly now and not in the cinema for long

  • I love the Golden Age of Hollywood but it was different to nowadays, Buster Keaton was amazing

  • Great questions to consider. I always feel better for writing anything, just the process of writing and then editing later

  • I find the process very challenging so this video really helped me, thanks

  • Georgina Owen made a comment

    Seeing my writing from another writers perspective is something I will consider and try to edit and refine

  • fantastic questions to consider, I will give it a go