Artist Research

Artist Research - Manuel Rebollo

Manuel Rebollo is a great graphic designer and illustrator. He has created a lot of work and most of which are dedicated to fashion. He works as a freelance designer and he gets his inspiration from music, fashion, sensuality and love. He uses strong contrasting colours, photographs and illustrator to create his designs, he also uses strong hard drawn lines and water colour drips doodles, he uses a lot of negative white space to bring forward his drawings. Rebollo's specialties are Advertising, Typography, Photo-manipulation, Illustration, Graphic Design. His skills are Photoshop, Painter, Freehand and Illustrator.
Here is some of his work:

Autumn Whitehurst

Autumn Whitehurst is an Illustrator based in Brooklyn she is well known for her style of drawing, she uses vector line work, surreal beauty and glowing textures. She keeps her colours simple with a touch of sharp contrast to make part of the image stand out more than the rest. I think her work is brilliant, she doesn't need to use to much detail to catch your eye. Her work is soft and subtle and she uses the less obvious detail to her work, highlighting certain areas of her work drawing your attention to those parts.

Images below:

Cecilia Carlstedt

Cecilia Carlstedt work is beautiful she uses a combination of water colour, pencil and ink to achieve her delicate designs. I would describe her work as electric and very experimental and I can tell she loves to contrast. Her work is done more naturally but she does use Photoshop  Illustrator and Photography. She has worked for many big brands, her work is vibrant and confident.

Here is some of her work:

Kelly Smith

Kelly Smith is a fashion illustrator who uses pencil and water colour to achieve her stunning illustrations. Her phenomenal work in my opinion is perfect, it is really well detailed and soft, the colours she uses are vibrant and fresh but they blend so well, she uses the water colours extremely well. She has also worked for some well known brands and she uses faces of fashion models a lot in her illustrations.

Work below:

Lanitta Makarova

Her fashion characters are very slim with long legs, there is a slight perfection and beauty about her work. She has great attention to detail, shapes and proportion. Lanitta's work is a little more fairy tale than the previous artists i have looked at, she has an interesting style to her work. The colours she uses are very strong they defiantly catch the eye, her actual drawn mannequin are very flat coloured and they don't hold to much tone to them so the sit back more in the image and fetch the clothes design out a lot more.

Here is some of her work:

  

Illustrator - Shapes, Tools, Mannequin and Fills

Unit 34 Illustrator - Shapes, fill and tools.

Getting used to the pen tool on illustrator, different types of pens to use to create different shapes.

Creating simple shapes just using a straight line to help me understand illustrator and the tools we use.

The black and white arrow selects and deselects so the shapes can be moved around the page if needed. when the shape is highlighted blue it means the image is ready to be moved.

This is the same image as above but moved on the page using the white arrow.

Also using the arrow to select you can change the size of the shape to fit the page using the scale tool.

Again using the pen tool you can create curves using a tool in the pen tool called anchor point pen tool.

Selecting the curved pattern to move of the page to create a new shape.

Something a little more subtle, starting to get used to controlling the anchor point pen tool, using it correctly helps create softer curves.

After playing about the with pen tool i started understanding the tool more and scaled the shapes i had created using the scale tool, then moving them back on to the sheet, leaving me with this page.

Selecting a certain image on the page and opening the colour picker by double clicking on the white box in the tools column will change the colour of the selected image.

The selected image is now been filled with a colour, the white box is now green which shows that my selected image has been filled.

I have moved this of the page to see which parts of the image will be filled.

I have now pressed no fill (arrow is hovering over, white box with a red line going across it) this means there is no fill on the picture and the image no longer has a background and cant be filled with colour.

This is what it will look like with no fill on the image. The larger white box is saying there is no fill as it has the red line going across it.

I have taken the 'fill (X)' off so the image can be filled with colour.

I did filled another shape using the same tools. Then i selected the last shape which is the subtle curve and moved it off the sheet itself to show the image has a background and i repeated the same method as the one above.

No fill.

Fill.

All shapes are completed 3 with a fill and one without.

Another image using similar methods.

Fashion Illustration - Mannequin

Using a normal, simple mannequin from google images, i drew around it to create the shape of the figure to get an even figure when i create the designs. Again using the pen tool.

This is the template i used to draw around using the pen tool.

This is the template after drawing around the dress.