I haven't really had much experience when it comes to working digitally; so when the time came that I had to complete a digital skills module, I was a little apprehensive. The brief was to produce two digital fashion illustration and with no experience with using Adobe Illustrator; I had to start with very basic training exercises but I was surprised at how quickly everything comes together.
After learning the basic skills and tools; I scanned an image of one of my designs and opened it in illustrator and started to trace around it building up shapes on different layers to create an overall figure/image. I played around with different colours, lines, brushes, etc. until I was confident enough to start creating my final illustrations.
ScreenShots of My Experimentation
For my final illustrations I decided to use fashion photography that I had sourced from the internet as a template for me to trace around. Using the skills and techniques that I had learnt I created two digital fashion illustrations, although the styles I created are very different; I am hapy with the results as I was able to experiment with everything I had learnt. I would like to work digitally again to continue to explore skills and techniques and hopefully develop a personal style of digital fashion illustration.
Final Illustrations & Fashion Photography Templates
