First Stages - Creating A Blank Canvas

This is the first stages of my process of making my dress. This is the first time I have ever made something like this but I am just thinking of it like a sculpture made out paper. My choice of paper was wallpaper base because it's sturdy, durable and thick. It was also cheaper to buy a roll instead of buying individual sheets of paper. My technique that I am using to get the desired shape of the human body is by using sections of squares and sticking them together with masking tape. The masking tape that I am using isn't strong or sticky enough to hold the pieces together so what I found myself doing was wrapping the masking tape all the way around and layering it as one whole piece of tape instead of small sections that would peal off. All so wrapping the tape around suctions the paper to the shape of the mannequin which makes it more smooth to work on top of. I have only done a small section so far because it was time consuming, but now I know the technique I am going to use the whole process will probably run a lot smoother, hopefully! I know I will hit a few glitches on the way because at this moment I don't know what shape I am going to have on the neckline or If I am going to have shoulder straps. At this moment I am just concentrating on how I am going to get the shape of the mannequin and making it sturdy and durable.

(Photographs Owened By Lyndsey Morgan)