Female outfits

Here are a few  female outfits i've looked at for ideas and inspiration for a range of fashion designs with the theme "super". i quite like the first image as it's clearly spiderman inspired but it's not too much, like without the arm bands it would go quite well and fit in well as a swim suit without loosing the theme. It's designs like this i'm looking at illustrating. 

concept art inspiration

Fashion designs

After looking at a few illustrations online and what Tyler has been doing i decided to give it a go and here are my first attempts at fashion illustration, although the images below are in no particular order. I found this surprisingly fun and more exciting and tolerable than what my original pathway was with the detailed drawings which begun to bore me midway through a drawing. I find i can sit down at any time and just let the pencil move and let my mind create what you see below, i love fashion illustration because there are no limits and i can do whatever i can imagine and i don't have to plan an idea, simply draw model outline and see what happens. I'm always ending up happily surprised with my designs as no planning is involved or no idea what each one will be like.

Many of my designs so far have had a futuristic look, or a space kinda of look, although this isn't on purpose i don't mind it because i love all my designs so far and have lost no excitement producing them.

The two images below are just a technique i tried after liking what Tyler was producing using it, i just dripped or threw different ink colours on paper and then added the female form afterwards to represent the ink as an outfit/clothing. Due to my previous style of working, doing realistic extremely detailed drawings i didn't like this technique as much, but i like the mix of colours, i may try this again but i will try to control the clouds slightly more and lessen the splash zone to fit my preference but also be outside my comfort some still.

Textiles Experimenting

In textiles i made two outfits for the fashion show, firstly i made the brown waistcoat, the finished piece is in the images below, i left it at that stage because i wanted to make other garments and i wasn't into that anymore as i rushed it slightly therefore it wasn't made the the standard i would have liked unfortunately. Below are a few variations of ways to wear the item, i prefer the top one.

Below is the head piece for my favourite item for the fashion show. Inspired by birds, i made this outfit and as simple as it is i really love it and i really enjoyed working with wire using the different wire for different roles of the outfit to make it fit fairly comfortably for any size model.

This picture is midway through making the body of the wire outfit, at this point i was happily surprised with the outcome as again i didn't plan anything i just manipulated the wire in random ways to see what i came up with. Like my fashion illustrations it seems to have a very modern futuristic look which i like, whilst i think looking rather elegant.

2D session

In this session i wanted to try speed painting, using a large head paint brush and mixing the paint straight on the paper, i wanted them to stand out and be really in your face. I painted these by quickly dipping the brush in a clump of paint and just slapping and squiggling the paint on the paper, taking no time to think or be precise, and spending no more than a second with my brush on the paper at once. I actually really enjoyed this method as it was constant and didn't bore me because i was constantly excited about the next brush stroke to see what the image would end up like, i would definitely do this again as the finished pieces i thought were good and it was fun.

My Scribbling

After looking at Vince Low's work i wanted to give it a go and see how it went, yesterday after noon i spent 15 minutes with a 0.4 fine pen to scribble  a portrait of Morgan Freeman in my sketch book an i think it went well and i was happy with the outcome considering there wasnmt much attention paid to detail and and no effort to perfect or finish the piece. I was focusing on getting used to scribbling rather than carefully placing the lines to be photo realistic, to be more loose and free with the way i achive the resemblenceto the subject.

I will be doing drawing like this much much more and developing a specific style in some way unique to me and only being similar to artists like Vince Low

Vince Low

Vince Low i think is an incredible artist and i love the scribbling technique he uses and how modern it looks. The thing i like most about his work is probably the fact that they are extremely accurate and   how he lashes the lines out as if to emerge the subject in a background of scribbled lines.