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.