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Urged by a work trip I had to take up, I got an incredible opportunity to dip my toe in another universe – much more vivid, colorful, full of light.
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Urged by a work trip I had to take up, I got an incredible opportunity to dip my toe in another universe – much more vivid, colorful, full of light.
Recently colour has been a dominant subject in the public eye: yes, the colour of skin, the colour of hair, the colour of the car one drives, the colours of shoes, bags, smartphone cases, cereal boxes, post-it notes, the trend colours of next season, yes, …
No wonder mommy always says ‘When you buy shoes, always walk around the shop twice before buying them.’ Dad says: ‘When you buy a book, read random pages rather than the description at the back.’
As I slightly altered small details of my concept in the course of the project, changing the initial mood board is a natural process.
After a few chocolate bars, a whole chocolate donkey cake, and my mate’s chocolate dessert, fueled by sugar, I was finally ready to start with my designs for the other three major tournaments – Wimbledon, Australian Open, and French Open. Continue reading Blurry English Boys and Arnold
On a regular evening in the student bar, I found myself in what seemed to be just another heated discussion with one of my best friends. We had just came back from a movie club night, discussing Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’. As an actor, he seemed …
A few weeks ago I was given a project on designing for a brand. Well, apparently, creating objects you love is a bit harder when you have to consider how other people/brands might feel about it. I chose to design for Christopher Kane, hoping I …
Illustrator is not exactly something unfamiliar to me but, you know, one can never stop learning. In that respect, I feel I learned something quite useful today, so that will be the theme of my next blog post – how to quickly create a CAD image of a jacket you just came up with – what I actually did.
So first of all I decided on my silhouette and found and image on WGSN, showing a jacket of similar shape, although not made of the same material, as the one I designed and that was my template for the basic sketch.
I started slowly tracing off the right part of the jacket and then reflected that shape to the left side of the canvas, using the Reflect Tool. After a while I chose a color palette and added color to the jacket, using the Live Paint Bucket. Adding a few stitches where needed made my jacket look much more complete so that is how it actually started taking a decent shape.
Working on the same file for over half an hour made me a bit tired of the colors I had used and I felt the baby blue made the jacket look really pale and soulless. That made me change my mind and I combined my indecisiveness with one of the techniques we studied in today’s lecture – creating a clipping mask to give some texture to the garment. Personally I thought that woolen sleeves would look pretty cool, and the changes I made look like that:
Having a finished jacket did not actually feel so finished which made me try to give it some life by adding shades and wrinkles. First of all, I went back to the image I had chosen at the beginning and copied it to the same layer I was currently working on.
I started tracing off the areas where the fabric was wrinkled and reflected them to the left half of the canvas – it actually looked quite nice.
Finally, after removing the template image, my illustration looked the following way:
Not bad,actually…
About a month ago I went to a summer cinema with friends (all of them really into the whole superhero thing) to see the new Spider-Man movie, only to find out that it wasn’t just me, who was there for the costumes.