Tag: Imagination

Photo Diary Shanghai

Photo Diary Shanghai

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.

Applications of Monochromatic Light

Applications of Monochromatic 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, 

Doodles

Doodles

Redecorating my imaginary world again! Continue reading Doodles

Failures Also Go on the Wall

Failures Also Go on the Wall

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.’

Spring brings new leafs

Spring brings new leafs

As I slightly altered small details of my concept in the course of the project, changing the initial mood board is a natural process.

Blurry English Boys and Arnold

Blurry English Boys and Arnold

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

Heroes Designing Heroes

Heroes Designing Heroes

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 

Another relationship in Falmouth

Another relationship in Falmouth

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 

CAD Jacket

CAD Jacket

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…

Superheroes – the future of fashion?

Superheroes – the future of fashion?

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.