FASHION VISUALIZATION

Things have been quiet here for the past couple of weeks, apologies but I have been working non stop. Monday I had a huge deadline for my Fashion Visualization module, I had only a few weeks left to complete a research journal into the fashion of the 18th Century with designs, a layout pad with developed designs, a file full of visualization tasks we had to complete such as figure drawing, collage techniques and digital work, a final A3 fashion illustration featuring a shirt we designed from our research and a power point presentation of our work.

Phew! So as you can guess I was pretty busy! But it's all been worth it, I'm very happy with the work I did and I can see that my drawing skills have improved.. especially when it comes to figure drawing. We had to draw a model from life every Wednesday then develop refined figure templates from those, I'm really happy with how mine turned out and it's cool that they're totally mine and unique to me.

I did a lot of digital visualization too, something which I have had much experience with in past projects so I was confident with that work and did well with it. I learnt a new collage technique, using masking tape to create a silhouette, it was really effective as the texture of the masking tape mimics the texture of the fabric that would be used for a dress like this.

And this is my final fashion illustration that I made, it was inspired by the dresses of late 18th Century France, think Marie Antoinette but with a more contemporary look. I firstly hand drew the drawing, then scanned it into Photoshop and used a digital collage technique to 'color it in'. I hope you guys like it, I've already got my new project brief entitled 'Innovations' which I will be posting about very soon!

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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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SKIN & BONE

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FLORAL REFLECTIONS

Hey everyone, sorry I didn't do a Most Wanted Wednesday yesterday. I'm not feeling my best right now, got a cough and just generally under the weather.. too many long nights and getting caught in the rain!

Anyway, had an easy day today.. was playing around in Photoshop with a few of my pictures and came up with this.

It's a picture of me which I multiplied four times and made a mirror effect, then I overlaid it with some of the floral photoshop experimentation I did ages ago which I posted up on here. Just search the 'La Fleur Eternelle' tag and you should find it. I think it looks really cool, was just something I was playing around with cause I was bored. It's now my Facebook profile image and I thought I'd share it with you guys.

I'm gonna take it easy for a few days.. but hopefully will still be blogging, got a few great things I want to upload here, so there's content I just need to write it up! As always feel free to leave a comment below or shoot me a tweet on Twitter.

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LA FLEUR ETERNELLE - THE COLLECTION

As part of my final for my Final Major Project I decided to design a 6-piece capsule Couture collection in-keeping with the theme of my final piece. Based on Botany, I looked at the beauty of the flower and used it within my collection as an applique. The collection is based around 3 key times; Daywear, Cocktail Hour and Evening/Red Carpet.

 Final Piece

Red Carpet Dress

Cocktail Hour Dress

Cocktail Jumpsuit

Trench Coat

Blazer & Flares

This collection was firstly drawn by hand, then I scanned it into photoshop and digitally rendered it. These were printed out in A3 and placed on the wall along side my final piece in my exhibition, I will be posting about my final piece and my exhibition just as soon as I take some proper photos on Monday. 

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METROPOLIS #3

Finally, here is the illustration for my Metropolis project! I wanted to do something different and try something new with this illustration, I usually just render my illustrations in felt-pen and color pencil.

So this time I scanned my sketch and cleaned up in Photoshop, I then rendered it using different textures like a real skin texture for the skin and leather texture for the leggings. I used my original inspiration of the Selfridges building in Birmingham (the studded walls) and used a picture of it to illustrate where I will stud the fabric. I think this turned out really well and I think I definitely want to carry on and experiment more with digital rendering for my fashion illustrations.

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