A Few Style Buddies. . .

So for my fashion illustration class we had to "dress" these dolls every week with designer fashions (or just random street fashions) These are a few of my favorites. It was kind of a lot to do these every week on top of our regular class work, but I feel like it really helped me improve my tablet skills and short-hand methods for depicting different types of surfaces.

Vice & Virtue Final

Vices and Virtues: Sketch Phase

We had to choose one of the seven vices and its corresponding virtue to illustrate as two posters. I chose pride and humility, here is the sketch phase--update to come next week!

Burt's Bees!

Full-page and two-page spread illustrations for my latest Lifestyle: Body and Behavior assignment. We had to take a photograph of a clothing item or product and incorporate it into an illustration. I chose Burt's Bees Very Volumizing Conditioner and Beeswax Lip Balm.

Red Sonja

Magazine illustration for a feature story about the upcoming movie Red Sonja. It was a little tricky to find runway fashion that fit the theme, but I ended up using an Alexander McQueen piece from an older collection. Got some mixed feedback on this one--there's still a lot of things I'm trying to improve on with my technique and compositions. I was pretty happy with the anatomy in Red Sonja, though--no negative feedback there, and drawing anatomy is still something I'm trying to get a good feel for. I'm thinking about taking Life Drawing again in the Fall just because I'm a little rusty.

"Night Out" Finals

Final versions for a two-page spread about a "Night Out", featuring fashion from one or more designers' ready-to-wear collections. I went with the idea of Geocaching in Sequoia National Forest. Honestly I think this may have worked better as a sort of day trip feature, but I already was pretty involved in the sketches, outfits, etc so I decided to stick with it. Not too crazy about the coloring job, though I like the general color scheme.

Old Stuff!

So, now that I have a little free time to update my blog, I'm dumping a bunch of stuff from my fashion illustration class on here. Remember those sea-themed fashion sketches way way back? Maybe? Well here are the final versions. . .it's been a while so I don't remember all the dates for the collections, but the "washed up" girl is wearing an Alexander McQueen dress, the clown fish girl is wearing Stella McCartney, and at least one of the jellyfish swimmers is wearing Armani.

Style Buddies Revisited

Slightly more exciting than the last crew...

Fashion within Location: Sketches

For my fashion illustration class we were to choose an environment and then create illustrations featuring apparel from existing designer lines that somehow echoed or meshed with the location we selected. The articles in these sketches come from a variety of lines from different seasons, some of which include Alexander McQueen, Armani, and Stella McCartney. The final two illustrations will be posted hopefully this weekend...

Style Buddies!

I'll be dressing up these peeps every week for my fashion illustration class.