Body with face

 

 

The face was easy to do and quite fun. I really enjoyed doing the eye lashes.
However it was really annoying to trace the inside of the body. I was slighty confused but I managed to do it.

Poster

 

 

After the assessment, I was so thrilled to be doing something so much more simpler.

Wallet Technical Sketch

This was so simple to do. I absolutely loved doing it, especially after the knit!!

Knit Technical Sketch

This was the hardest and mos time consuming technical sketch I have attempted so far.
It was simple to make the brush, that worked pretty easily but it was so difficult applying it. It still doesn't look too good but it was the best I could manage.

Jacket Technical Sketch

I enjoyed completing this jacket because for the first time I'm happy to say nothing went wrong and it was all pretty straight forward. :) 

Print Shirt Technical Sketch

Last week I completely forgot to post this even though I had complete it before class last week. The print image wasn't too difficult to draw. It was a cute print of two foxes facing each other. However I did find it difficult to fill the shirt, as sometimes my print would get cut off, which was really disappointing. I kept trying though I'm still not entirely confident doing it. I need more practice. Also I was really confused drawing the side view. I couldn't work my head around what the side would look like around the collar and the arm. 

Skirt Technical Sketch

I enjoyed doing this gored skirt, mainly because my stitching lines are beginning t improve in my opinion. I usually have crooked stitch lines that don't exactly follow the edge of the skirt. However this time I managed to control the shape of my stitch line in a much more consistent way. 

Dress Technical Sketch

This dress wasn't to difficult to do as I have become fluent using the reflect tool. It makes the garment look more accurate then trying to copy a side freehand using the pen tool.  Although I found the side slightly difficult as I couldn't really figure out what it would look like on the side with the different lengths of the skirt. 

Technical sketch - Shorts

I was having a nervous breakdown doing these shorts because after I had finished and saved I tried opening them up again and it wouldnt allow me so i had to start all over again. Glad it's over!

PANTS TECHNICAL SKETCH

Finally!!!! Got the hang of the pen tool.

My work still isn't perfect of course but I finally know how to manoeuvre the pen tool to create the shapes I want. Practise makes perfect!

Pen Tool

 When I was tracing this figure I could not figure out how to remove the tool from colouring what I was tracing. Once that was sorted out, tracing was much easier.

I am really pleased with how this one turned out. For the first time I was able to manage the curves without sharper points so I feel I have improved in using the pen tool.

Tracing Using the Pen Tool

Tracing these figures wasn't too difficult. It took me a while at the beginning to figure out how to make the pen tool work because for some reason it wouldn't. However once that worked the rest was quite simple.

After spending 4 hours trying to do this task I just gave up in the end. The models are too difficult to practice on. I want to keep tryin gin my own time but for now this was the best I could after hundreds of attempts!!

Fashion Illustration: My attempt to recreate the fur jacket

 This first image uses a paintbrush tool to create the fur effect. The pants have been smudged and the darken and lighten tool has been used to create depth and realism.

 This design uses many different shades of blue to create depth and has shadow around the face to create volume.

The lighten tool has been used considerably in this illustration to give it an abstract look, along with the shades of pink paint brush splashes to give it a unique look.

The skirt was slightly confusing at the start. I didnt know how to do each layer seperately and then delete the background but eventually I got the hang of it and was able to fill in the skirt with my pattern.
I enjoyed shading the skirt and adding depth to make the skirt appear realistic.

Reflection

This toss repeat was really difficult to do. It took me many different attempts to figure out how to do the repeat without having track lines visible on the final image. It came quite close to my original vision. Looking at the natural formation of the plant I had decided to adopt a simialr formation since it looked aesthetically pleasing the way it naturally grew. Naturally the plant keeps growing and fills up an area overlapping one another in all different sizes and after a while it grows tall pink flowers. So for the print I arranged the plant in a few different sizes to create my image and then when I finally created the repeat it resembled the way the plant naturally looks.

This activity is completly new to me so I'm quite pleased for my first go at it.

Now that I had finished the print design I created my repeat. This is how I did it.

 I used the ruler to mark half way lines on an A4 sized page.
I then duplicated and distributed my design on the centre, making sure the guidlines were covered.
I then merged the layers together.

The next step was to cut each quater of the page and arrange them on a new page as shown below.

I filled the centre spaces using the original print design until there were no white spaces left. I then decreased it's size to fit a quater of a page and then defined it as a pattern. This is what it looked like.

 And this is what it finally looked like when I filled the page with the pattern repeat. 

I drew a sketch of the plant which I then phtoshoped added colour and used it in my pattern.

After two more days of working on this pattern I have finally created the final patern which I will use to create my print. This is my final pattern. Using this I will attempt to do a toss print and if it doesnt work I'll try something else.

Selections from the photographs that I will use for the Print Design

 I have started creating my design using the photographs I have taken of this plant. So far I have cut out one of the flowers from the plant (as shown in the image). It took quite a while to perfect the edges. After I cut it out I enhanced the colours and the lighting and then used the "dry brush" tool to change the texture of the plant and make it appear slightly subtle without changing the natural appearance of the plant drastically. I then used the spot healing brush tool to remove the imperfections of the plant. Because it has a natural velvety texture there were a lot of marks and prints of the plant in the initial image so i had to remove it to give it a more aesthetic appearance.

I did a similar process with this part of the plant. I cut it out (which was more difficult than the first one) and then enhanced the colours and lighting however it did not need the spot healing tool and i did not use the dry brush tool for this. I left it looking realistic. 

So far these a re the only two parts I have cut out from the photographs I have taken that i will use for the print design. I'm working on a sketch but i don't think i will put it in because it ruins the realistic appearance of my print but i am willing to experiment and see what it might look like. Also i am considering making a paint brush out of the pink flower to use in my print design, but I'm also not sure about this. I also nee don't test that out.