ABOVE THE CLOUDS

“The sun always shines above the clouds.” 

I love clouds. For as long as I can remember I've always loved clouds, to me they are utterly beautiful and fascinating. They're always different, there are no two clouds alike and they are constantly changing. Like the first picture in my collage, I took it outside my bedroom window.. within 5 minutes it the sky turned dark and the clouds became black as nighttime fell.

On summer days I love just laying back and daydreaming whilst watching the clouds sweep across the sky, it's quite calming. Clouds have inspired a couple of pieces in my first collection for the Kawaii Kingdom line I've designed (even the logo is a cloud!).

I definitely want to use some of my images that I have taken (all my with iPhone 4S, amazing camera for a phone) and get them printed onto fabric. Think they'd be such a cute print, whimsical yet full of depth. 

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CLOUDS

As part of my Fashion Visualization brief I've been learning all aspects of how to visualize design ideas.. from figure drawing, rendering fabrics, fashion illustrations in many different media and technical spec drawings. 

This is the first technical spec drawing I've done, it's a classic men's shirt from my own wardrobe. It's hand drawn then cleaned up in Photoshop, I then used a scan of a cute cloud print fabric to 'color' it in using the digital collage technique I'm quite fond of for my illustrations.

I'm really please at how it turned out as it was the first one I've ever done, if you are interested in doing some technical spec drawings here are a few tips that I used:

1. Use a ruler and french curves, it's really important that you have smooth lines.
2. Always look down at the garment from a 'birds eye' perspective.
3. Keep everything in scale with each other e.g. the arms in scale with the body. 

Hope those help, if you have any questions or a comment you can leave one below or tweet me!

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