I am currently taking a class titled "Computers for the Fashion Industry," and it is basically fashion drawing in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. We do things like come up with color stories, build inspiration boards, design prints, and draw flats (technical fashion drawings). It's pretty fun stuff, if you're already reasonably familiar with Adobe software. However, a lot of my classmates are struggling with it because they've never used the software before, plus some of them aren't really crazy about drawing in general. I can't really blame them because it takes a lot of practice and patience to learn the software, and although I've been working with it for several years, I still sometimes have trouble remembering how to do certain things.

I've been working on the final project in this class for a while now. The assignment is to design a collection for a designer of our choice for either spring or fall 2011. The collection has to consist of twelve to sixteen pieces, and it must include at least one jacket and one dress. Today I finished my technical flats and started dressing my digital croquis (fashion figures) for my illustration page. I still haven't gotten into the rendering part of it, but here's my first one so far:


She kind of looks like one of those silly little web dolls, but hopefully when I get around to rendering her, she'll look better. I am not quite certain how I will handle rendering her because I feel like I want to do more than throw her into Photoshop and use the dodge and burn tools like my teacher suggested. I understand how it's quick and easy and how it works for people who aren't really familiar with Photoshop, but I feel like I'd prefer to paint in Photoshop the way I normally do, with the brush tool.

Also, just because I feel like showing off, this is one of my technical flats.



I'll post more as I get them done. For now, I'm going to take a break to play Breath of Fire III. (Which, by the way, is one of my favorite games of all time.)

Labels: art, class, croquis, fashion, flats, hikari