Fashion Illistration - Playing Around With Photoshop

For this, I have scanned in a garment design from my sketch book that I created for my street art project, and used different tools on photoshop to inhance the image.
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This is my origanal image that I scanned in:

 

I then used the saturation and vibrance tool to enhance it:

 

After this, I used the custom red levels tool to change the hue of the image:

 

 

For this photo, I used the lasso tool to select the figure on the left, and then change the adjustment levels to change the transparancy and then to place the object selected in the middle to create a ghostly affect:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photoshop - Levels

In photoshop, to create different levels of tonal imagery you can use tools to adjust the lighting of the photo and to change the contrast and the tonal levels.
This tool is helpful to bring out colours and make the image more effective and impressionable. It can also be used to eradicate imperfections.

This image I have found on the interent will hopefully demonstrate this:

 

As you can tell, the colour have been brightened, and the tones in the creases if the rocks have become darker. Various other tools have been used, such as the perspective tools, but focusing on the levels of this image, you can tell it has rappadly changed.

 

 

Photoshop - Perspective

Photoshop can be used to do a range of varitey with images. It can be used to change the constrast, transparancy, how light or dark the image is, the tone of the image and to be able to warp your image into different forms using tools such as lasso tool - which can be used to create disorted retangular shapes which can be covered up with layers to continue to warp the image into different perspectives and angles. From this, different formations can be made.

To demonstrate this, I have found an image on the internet:



Here is another example of what perpestive on photoshop is capable of:


Original Image:






Edited Image:





This image has been created using perpestive warp, and took which you can use to easily reshape the content of your image to make new perspectives within your composition.

Future/Past Project

For this project I chose to research into 90's grunge. I researched into the grunge scene that emerged from Seattle, choosing to concentrate on the music scene that influenced fashion at the time. I looked into bands such as Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and especially Nirvana. I then used all my research to create sketches in my book. My designs consisted of combat boots, oversized cardigans and jumpers and ripped pipe jeans. I chose to 'grungy' colours such as indigo, burgundy, grey and black.
The piece I chose to make was a oversized jacket made of felt, and an oversized stripy t-shirt/ dress. For me overall, my garments could have been made better - the jacket was meant to be made of wool but however due to financial costs I had to use felt. I also got the measurements wrong for the amount of material I needed to make my long sleeved T-shirt so I had to make one of the arms longer. However, I did feel that this made the piece more unique.

Narcissist Project

For my narcissist project, I had to research into different themes of narcissism. I looked into the story of Narcissus himself, and different types of artists who are narcissists themselves - this included Frida Kola and Lady Gaga. However, I chose to base my project on people with narcissistic personalities, a darker theme which I found far more interesting. I researched into Stalin, Hitler and Charles Manson - people who are considered indisputable evil. I then made a collage of different pieces of work that embodied the way in which many people who seem to be good, are infact very cruel. Charles Manson for example led a cult of hippies, all of whom thought was 'god to them' and influenced them to kill and mutilate innocent people.

My garments that I designed took the theme of the colour pallet I had chosen for my college, autumn colours.

Here are some photographs of the piece that I created:

 
This is my final design:

This is an abstract of Anne Franks Diary, the music sheet of the song 'Helter Skelter' which is related to Charles Manson, and in the corner the book 'Alice in Wonderland' which is open on a very dark part of the book.









 

Fashion Show at Berwick Lodge

On Monday the 27th of January 2014, the first and second years studying fashion at the city of bristol college went to Berwick lodge to take part in a fashion show. For this fashion show, we were given the project brief 'street art'. For this project we had to research into different type of street artists. For this I researched into the artists Betarok75, Don John, DMB, Banksy and Stinkfish. This helped influence my final garments.The garments I produced were a black crop top and patterned harem pants.
The fashion show for me went very well. Although my original model dropped out, the model that stepped in fitted the garments perfectly. The overall look worked well with the theme of the project, and had a clean finish. I could see someone wearing it out in public. The fashion show experience was very eye opening, and helped me to see the basics of what types of preparation and steps you need to take to have a successful outcome.

This is my theme board that I created to help come up with my ideas for my garments:





The artist I based most of my work on:

ALO:

Julie Verhoeven

Julio Verhoevn is a fashion designer and artist, who creates uses influences of surrealism, pop culture and British punk culture to develop abstract illustration, instalments and pieces of clothing. Many of her work is considered post feminist, and has worked with many ionic fashion labels such as louis vuitton, versace, mulberry as well as high street brands such as h&m. She began her career studying fashion, and after assisted John Galliano who helped her to develop as an artist. In 2002 she launched her own fashion label which she named Gibo. Her work overlaps with one another, and she refuses to apply the rules of seperation in the pieces she produces. Her work has been exhibited internationally, because of her unique style.

Plastic Dreams: Melissa Magazine, Winter 2012:



Gibo, Spring/Summer 2003:



Tableau Vivant'. Christopher Shannon, A/W12: