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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