Behind the scene of my photo shoot

As well as me modelling for Megs shoot last week, I also had my own photo shoot for the biker chic shirt dress.
I styled my model with a leather jacket, silver chain and black lace up boots. I went for a smokey eye and a dark eyebrow, I also french plaited a side of the hair and let the rest of the hair fall naturally.

Modelling again!

So last week my good friend Meg asked me to model this outfit she had made from that material I told you about in a previous post (the one about the out of the blue photo shoot.) It was good fun, the photographer was great! and I can't fault anything about the shoot, apart from I look like a little girl!

The process of my illustration

Once I had got all my ideas together and decided what I was going to do for my Illustration, It was time to start the real illustration. I had photocopied several pages of my final figure, this was because I had to use them as a stencil for different areas of the figure as I wanted strips of neon in between the matte black areas.

 So I firstly started off by cutting out the areas that I wanted to black paint to be in, I then scrapped the paint with the plastic in the areas that needed it.

 I came across a small problem while carrying this process out, the paint ran over and leaked into areas that it wasn't suppose to be in!

 This was a problem as it leaked over to the areas where the neon strip was going and it didn't look slick enough for my theme.

 Therefore I re did the stencils and made sure I stuck down the sides so it didn't let the paint leak over.

This made the neon strips look a lot better and slick.

I then added on a penciled arm and pen slinky bracelet.


All that is left to do is scan this illustration into photo shop and work on placing a neck and head onto the body and also giving it this motion effect that I wanted. Its hard to explain but if I show you a picture of a moving train and the light streaming off it, then you will get my idea. (Hopefully)

So I want the beams of light coming off the neon strips on my illustration. This process is my next stage of my illustration which will hopefully be carried out in the next week but I will post it straight away once its finished!!

Experimenting my own illustration

The other day I started to work on creating my own illustration that conveyed my FMP dress, I didn't have a clue where to start, I had sampled out many different medias before hand but I was still clueless. I finally decided to place my dress on the mannequin and start to draw from different angles, to see which was best.

I then choose to the best angle and experimented more with it, playing around with the proportion and angle. Once I had got a good enough figure/ angle that I was happy with, I moved onto experimenting with what medias I would use. I knew that thick acrylic would be best but I wasn't sure which was the best way to use it. I sampled out layering different paints on top of each other to give it that thick industrial look, but I also tested out scrapping the paint down with a piece of plastic and layering that up. This technique worked out best as it gave the best outcome.  

Painting

Scrapping

Practising our own Illustration

So as you know I've been doing a lot of illustration work recently, looking into different medias and which would be best for my style and theme. This weekend our aim was to try out a few more styles ready for us to create our own illustration board that represented our FMP Dress. So I carried out my own little experiment, I tried out magazine collage with thick dark paint to try and convey my industrial themed style. I used a models body and head out of a magazine and worked on top of it. My next style I want to try is stitching ripped fabric on the top of the thick paint, maybe ill try this one out tomorrow. Anyway this is how I went on..

FMP dress

I've finally finished my FMP dress, it is all ready and clean for fittings week. I am so pleased and glad I have finished and haven't fallen behind with it! There were some exciting times but there was also the stressing out and nearly giving up times, after having to cut out the same material more than three times. But I'm not going to bore you with me talking all the way through how I manufactured the final stages of my garments but I will put up a few pictures of the process so you get the right idea.

Today's necklace

Today's necklace choice.
Primark £4 - BARGIN! Neon and Gold spikes, I love it! Styled with a turquoise knitted jumper by Topshop £30?

Another illustration

I'm loving finding new illustration with different medias to try out, I find it so fun. Anyway while I was researching 'industrial fashion illustrations' I came across another illustration that caught my eye, this one used paint and pen but it was ripped up and stuck onto an image of a model, I wasn't sure if it would look right for my theme but there's no harm in trying is there? So that's what I did, I tried it out and here's how it went... Im thinking about involving another media (stitching, paint or more collage) into the illustration just so I can see how it would work and what the outcome would be like. But here's where I'm up to at the minute, oh and the original illustration is the bottom right hand corner

My Version

So as I said in my last blog post that I was going to try and recreate one of the illustration that I showed you as part of my aim for this weekend. Well I have done this and it is not identical to the original but that wasn't my plan, I only wanted to use it as a foundation for my own version of the illustration. I have used the same medias as the original but I have changed the pose of the model and used more of one media. But I hope you like it and I feel it really worked well and I hope to use this technique in my own industrial illustration.

Industrial illustrations

This weekend I was aiming to complete another illustration that linked to my target audience of visionary. I also wanted the illustrations I carried out to link to my overall theme of 'industrial' for my final garment, therefore I have been researching into illustrations linking to this theme. I came across these two illustration both from the same unknown illustrator, which I immediately thought we're great for my theme, the media used were perfect and the way they are carried out just made me think 'industrial' straight away, so I'd be stupid not to try and recreate their work but in my own style wouldn't I? So this is my challenge for today, I'll post my own version up later when it's complete.

Toile Diary Update

This week I started manufacturing my real final garment in the right fabric! (exciting stuff) . Here's where I got up to...

                                                            Cutting the Fabric out.

Putting the diagonal pipping in.

Top stitching  along the piping.

I had to stop manufacturing on the skirt I had not got the zip for the back of the skirt with me. As the zip was the next step of manufacturing.

 Cutting the fabric and wire out for the shoulders.

 Bagging the fabric out and placing the wire inside the fabric and wadding 

 Hand stitch the other side seam 

 Bias Bind the neck line