Industrial Revolution Design Work

  So these are the designs I came up with! It was hard at first to come up with the initial designs but after the first 2 or 3, it was easier to get some inspiration. 

I had to keep a slight strict theme through the entirety of designs:

1.  A colour scheme of  Maroon, Black and White

2.  Has have an added texture e.g. knit, patchwork, crochet e.t.c

My final design which I chose to make was number 16 as its complex as well as simple.  However,  I shall make adjustments to the design to make it fit the brief better and to quench my thirst for my crazy, eccentric and outlandish twist!

New School Year, New Project!

Hey!

Sorry it's been a while since I've updated!

Frankly throughout the whole holidays, I have been procrastinating a lot with Tumblr, hanging out with friends and working with cookies to earn some money.

The project I'm working on at the moment is called 'Industrial Revolution'

We had to research the basic history of the Industrial Revolution, then a brief paragraph or so about the textile industry (Which was interesting to know how much things has changed since then). Knowing what I do with my designs that are usually on the 'bazaar' side of things, Structure seems to be a main element which I could use to my advantage.

So buildings, Cranes, Shapes, Patterns were my focus point on research. Primary research for the Industrial Revolution is easy to come by when you live in a town full of cranes, buildings and a harbour side that was used in the same era.

We also had to make samples of texture; Knit, Crochet, Patchwork and Quilting were my base textures

I've used architect Zaha Hadid, Paco Rabanne and Chromat as some designer influence towards my designs.

Chromat 

Zaha Hadid Architecture 

Paco Rabanne Catwalk 2011

After looking at the research i've collected, designing 16 garments front and back shouldn't be as hard as it has in the past. Previously in other projects, I was terribly lazy about the research side of the design projects where I wouldn't analyse in depth or make any attempt of presenting it nicely. Because of that, actually coming up with the designs were a struggle as I didn't have a straight forward collection idea in mind. 

Facebook Page

Hey Guys! 

I have a Facebook page, so feel free to check it out and give it a like! And I've added a couple more photos of the garments I have ever successfully made. 

www.facebook.com/emmaturnerfashion                                     www.emmaturnerfashion.weebly.com

My First (Kind Of) 'Commission'

       A friend of mine writes 2 fan fictions about an American TV show called Supernatural! Supernatural is about two brothers named Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) who are 'hunters' fighting evil supernatural beings like; Demons, Gods and Monsters that roam earth. There are angels as well and everyone's favourite is called Castiel (Misha Collins). 

      From the TV programme, my favourite has got to be Crowley (Mark Shepard), The king of Crossroads at first to then become the King of Hell in season 5 plus... he is a bad ass, red eyed demon! 

   Her first and most acknowledged story "Babysitting- A Dean Winchester Love Story" has received over 80k reads and 1.8k votes in the space of 9 months!! 



"This is the story of Cora Jenkins who gave up hunting 4 years ago, only to be thrown back into the deep end by the unexpected arrival of the Winchester brothers."

     She made her own cover for that story, so she asked me if I could design and create one for her new one "Collision". 

  The plot for this story is that Dean and Sam Winchester are on the hunt for Crowley as he created the portal into our universe which is parallel to his and taking humans.  

  I found the image via Google so I don't actually own it. All I did was added text on top and formatted it to Wattpad's size requirements which was a massive struggle as I got the width and length mixed up. 

Go check out and read her stories on Wattpad!! 

http://www.wattpad.com/user/orangefish340

My Website

   For the end of year project, we were asked to create a website! I was so thrilled to be able to have a blog let alone an website with my name on it. We used a free website builder 'Weebly' which is quite user friendly and easy to upload, edit and change images and text.

                         Would definitely recommend it for anyone wanting a website!!

www.emmaturnerfashion.weebly.com 

- Home Page -

  I created a logo using some of the photoshopping skills I've gained over the past few months, hopefully I'll have a better and improved one in the future!

  Just because I've finished the units for this blog and website, doesn't mean I won't keep up with posting content or adding things to the site! I'm beginning to like blogging and updating my website, which I never thought I would enjoy doing. 

Overall View Of This Project

   After completing 3 fashion illustrations, I have found that my love for Photoshop has changed over the weeks of using it daily. My skills especially using Pixelmator and Adobe Photoshop are becoming more second nature to me than at the beginning being a foreign object I would never touch! My views on it in general has definitely changed for good.


  I really enjoyed learning the tools and figuring out how to use them appropriately, after a while it got a bit boring but that was only because I was using the same fashion illustration for all of them. So if I was to do any other fashion illustrations, I would essentially use more than one drawing.

Third Fashion Illustration

This is my third and final fashion illustration! Such a relief that we don't have to do anymore of these! doing this edit in particular, didn't take me long to do as it doesn't need so much attention. The background I found on google.

Second Fashion Illustration

    This is my second attempt to doing another edit on my illustrations. Comparing what I did in my first edit, I've improved massively in technicality and knowledge of using Pixelmator.  Creating a surreal illustration is easy if you have the imagination.  I used images from google to get the background and the angel and devil images. I had to erase the white edges from the silhouettes to make them completely black then flip them the other way.  

First Fashion Illustration Edit

For my very first edit of anything using photoshop, I'm happy with the outcome of what I've managed to do with the minimum of knowledge I at first had of tools. It doesn't seem like much but it took me...4 hours to work out what certain tools do what and whether they're good for particular parts.  At one point, I had to start from the beginning due to the college computer logging me off without my permission! Luckily, I screen shotted each step I took for future posts so all I had to do was simply copy the images I took.

I used the following tools:  

-Selection 

-Layers 

-Filler 

-Levels

-Copy and Paste 

-Eraser

-Hue/Saturation 

-Lighting

-Colour mixing 

-Magic Wand selection tool 

-Canvas 

Photoshop-hue/saturation tool

Whilst editing the illustrations, I used the Hue/Saturation tool to change the colour and lighting of my fashion illustration.  

How to navigate to the tool 

This is what it would look like when you open the tool.

Hue Bar 

Hue changes the colours depending which way you slide

Saturation Bar

Saturation bar to the left would dull the colours.

Saturation at the centre would make it normal.

Saturation at its highest would make the colours go to their most vibrant. 

Lightness Bar

An example of darkening the image 

The lightness bar changes the brightness
and darkness of the background 

Finale

Finale of the hue/saturation tool.

After using the hue and saturation tool, its helped a lot in knowing the outline of the fashion illustration so i don't misshapen the legs or arms by accident. I really liked using this tool, I would highly recommend it when using an image which has been sketched with pencil, lightly.  

Separating One Image into Two

Editing any image, you have to separate some part of it so you can edit it differently. This is how i managed to split and insert one of my designs into a new layer with Adobe Photoshop but can be simply replicated with the same tools on Pixelmator.

First thing you would do is to select the image with the Square selection tool,  Control+C then delete the image with the backspace. 

Create a new layer then just right hand click, paste into the new layer!

Pixelmator

Its the best, cheapest, possible photoshopping software I've ever purchased! Its essentially the same as Adobe Photoshop except its more...user friendly.  Its got nearly every tool that photoshop does but named differently and in different locations. It only cost me £20.99 but its hell of a lot cheaper than £54.99 for something which you can get thats exactly the same! Although, at college I would use the Adobe Photoshop because its available but for when I'm at home or away from college and in need for it, Pixelmator is just there on my Macbook waiting for me to use it.



Original Fashion Illustration

   This is the illustration I'm going to use as a main feature in my surrealist compositions.  I drew this illustration for one of my first projects! The theme of the project was 'Texture' and well...none of us really enjoyed making the theme boards as it wasn't interesting,  but we got to design autumn/winter collection for a 'client' going on holiday. These two were my favourite and most successful designs out of the 10 piece collection.

Surreal Illustrations Project

For the next project, I will be researching surrealist artists for influence and inspiration towards creating several outcomes of fashion illustration's with a surreal twist.

I'm actually looking forward to this project as it would give me some freedom to how much I can edit and change my illustration. I have no doubt that I'm going to find the editing a bit labour intensive and boring but it'll hopefully be worth the effort.

Surrealism Artist Research

Vladimir Kush

 Vladimir Kush is a Russian surrealist painter and sculptor and studied at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. He was conscripted into the Soviet Army for two years where he was assigned to painting murals , he moved to the US then eventually got5 his own gallery on the island of Maui, Hawaii.

He also won the First prise in painting at the Artistes du Monde international exhibition in Cannes.` Most of his artwork feature nature and people, mixing these together could create a surreal effect.

Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte is a well known and famous surrealist artist of all time for 'The Son Of Man' portrait. He wasnt recognised for his work until his late 50's when he got recognised and reached some form of fame. He was influential in the transformation of surrealism art and the pop up movement. Most of Rene's work was created my taking everyday objects and rearrange the figures, locations and objects making the view look deeper at what they were looking at.

  

Man Ray 

     Man Ray was an american modernist artist who spend most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Surrealist movement, although his ties were informal. He produced pieces in variety of media but he considers himself a painter. He's well known for his photography and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer.  

Paul Klee 

Paul Klee was a painter born in Switzerland, 1879. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually got deep into colour theory (Colour theory is a body of practical guidance to colour mixing and the visual effects of a specific colour combination).  He also did continuous line drawings and line drawings as well as his surreal landscape paintings.

Marcel Duchamp 

Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with dadaism and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century.