Fashion Illustration: Urban Textures Line Drawings

For the final part of the fashion illustration task i then used a fashion illustration line drawing which i got from: http://elisefaye.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/simpleline.jpg

The main tool i used for this part of the task was the polygonal tool which let me select parts of the drawing free hand. I selected different parts of the illustration which were unregistered and didn't fit line to line exactly. This gave me a selection to play around with and interpret my urban textures into.

After making the selection on the drawing i then cut exactly the same shape out of the urban texture and it then gave me the shape to drag and drop into the illustration.

As this was just a cut out of the image i used other tools to change different properties about the cut out. For example on the clothing, after i had cut the pieces out i then changes things like the contrast and the colour balance by going on Image, Adjustments.

I also used the paint bucket tool to fill in sections like her tights and her skin. This tool was hidden behind the gradient tool so i clicked over it and held to open the paint bucket tool. I then clicked the colour chart to select the colour i wanted and i could then change the brightness and the opacity of the colour. This was on the right hand side of the screen and you can change the percentage to make it more or less opaque.

The final part of the process was saving the image as a JPEG and uploading the illustraion to my blog.

Fashion Illustration: Urban Textures

For the next part of the assignment i went out and took rubbings of urban textures. I took about 15 rubbings of textures such as the computer keyboard, lift buttons and the buttons on my blackberry. After taking the rubbings i could then use the photocopier to copy them. I inverted the colours of the photocopies so that the background was black instead of the white of the tracing paper.

The photocopies of the rubbings could then be scanned in to the computer so they were ready for me to work on to on Photoshop. After scanning in the images i opened them up on to Photoshop and used different tools to manipulate the rubbings. The first change i needed to make to the scanned images was that the image size needed to be changed so i could save them. I went on the Image, Image Size and changed the size from pixels to percentage and reduced the size by half. Once the size had been changed i then used tools which were mainly under Image, Adjustments.

The tools in particular which i used was Colour Balance, Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation. There was also a tool called Invert which i could use to invert the scale of the colour. I could also copy and paste layers, of which i could then cut pieces out of each layer using the Lasso Tool and clearing the selected section. The area which was cleared could then show through the layer which was underneath and the background layer.

Once i had manipulated the scanned rubbings i could then import images of things that represented urban. I imported images of maps to use and used the same tools to manipulate them so they fitted in with the rubbings.

I used the same principal for all three of my scanned rubbings by opening and manipulating them in photoshop and the outcome of each illustration is below.  

As the illustrations had to have urban textures i impoted images of maps on each rubbing separately. On each one i moved the maps on to different layers so on some it was hidden behind the top layer and on top of the background layer. As the images had sections cut out of them, the maps showed through in places on the outcome.  

To make the maps fit in with the urban texture theme and in with the rubbings after they had been edited on Photoshop, they also needed to be manipulated. 

I firstly used the tools on Photoshop to change the colour balance of the image. I went on to Image, Adjustments and Colour Balance and worked with the colours to make them relevant to the images. 

Some of the maps i used the colour invert tool and also the contrast.

As the final outcome images were also a large sixe i made them smaller by repeating the process of going to Image, Image Size and changing the pixels to percentage and making them smaller than 100% so they could be saved and uploaded on to the blog.