Oh well, I don't feel bad about it much because with all my uber mismanaged time, I could say I still managed to hone the skill.
I have adopted proportions (9 heads) from Chic Francisco's book, Fashion Designing, and worked on my color rendering with the help of my very young and so much fun fashion illustration instructor. I could say I have improved and I'm pretty much happier this time with my work.
These are the ones I've done recently. Tools of the trade: Cattleya sketchpad, staedtler graphite pencils (HB, H3), Pilot G-tec 0.3/Pigma Micron 02 waterproof pen, Prang watercolors, Faber-Castell watercolor pencils.
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| Complementary |
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| Gradient |
For my finals next Saturday (7th week at the fashion illustration school), I'll be making two designs - my own high fashion take based on a Geisha and a Vampire. I haven't envisioned anything yet but I'm planning to start soonest so that I'm armed with at least 2 designs for each theme come Saturday. Or even three for each.
'Excited to use my watercolor papers then. Speaking of which, I need to try out those Prang watercolors (that the school recommended) on those watercolor papers before I destroy any underdrawing. If you could see in my "Gradient" illustration, the skirt's teal color bled so much at the sides that I had to lift and lift as much color as I can with tissue paper and water to clean them up. It was really frustrating so lesson learned.
I may post a review on the tools I used recently. Perhaps after a few more illustrations. We'll see.
For now, I gotta go and I hope to post more updates as often as I'd like.
cheers,
shasha
