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    Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration: Step-by-step contemporary fashion illustration - traditional, digital and mixed media
    Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration: Step-by-step contemporary fashion illustration - traditional, digital and mixed media
    Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration: Step-by-step contemporary fashion illustration - traditional, digital and mixed media
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    Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration: Step-by-step contemporary fashion illustration - traditional, digital and mixed media

    By Erica Sharp

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    About this ebook

    Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration is the go-to resource and inspiration if you're a budding fashion designer, fashion illustrator or just simply want to learn more illustration techniques.

    Covers all key areas of illustration using traditional, digital and mixed media methods, offering clear advice on how to manage color, textures, patterns and how to create your own fashion portfolio.

    Easy to follow step-by-step tutorials demonstrate each of the techniques, followed by a gallery of inspirational images show how to use each technique in your own illustrations.

    Erica is a fashion illustrator working with key fashion publications in London, UK, one of the world's leading cities of fashion, so her style is very commercial and current!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid & Charles
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781446364932
    Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration: Step-by-step contemporary fashion illustration - traditional, digital and mixed media
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    Erica Sharp

    Erica Sharp specializes in fashion, beauty and lifestyle illustration. She has worked for numerous magazines including Company, Scarlet and Cooler, and her artwork has also featured in books such as The Big Book of Fashion Illustration, events such as Vogue's Fashion Night Out and The Good Fashion Show, and blogs and websites including Print & Pattern, and Hunt & Gather. Her second passion is education and she facilitates a number of workshops for museums and charities. www.ericasharp.co.uk

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      What an inspiring book for people who interests in fashion illustration. I myself do fashion illustrations too and your book gives me even more inspire and ideas so thankfull for that. Hope you will se my review!!

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    Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration - Erica Sharp

    Introduction

    Welcome to Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration. This book will guide you through the process for creating cutting-edge, contemporary fashion and beauty illustrations, combining a wide range of exciting materials and techniques with Adobe Photoshop. Whether you are a budding fashion designer or illustrator, or simply wish to learn more illustration techniques using Adobe Photoshop, this book should inspire you to learn something new in a fun and creative way.

    Here each chapter covers a range of themes, from the fundamentals of Photoshop, to combining colour, texture and mixed media with your fashion illustrations. Within each chapter is a series of techniques; each of these demonstrated by a step-by-step tutorial followed by a gallery of inspirational images using that technique. If you are a beginner, I recommend that you start working through the tutorials in the first chapter, Fundamentals, as this contains some useful and basic exercises that will help you to familiarize yourself with using Photoshop.

    I have always been a very visual person and feel that art is my most powerful and honest form of communication. I come from a mixed British and Japanese background, and the rich visual culture of Japan has heavily influenced my vision. Growing up, I would read manga comics and loved Japanese animation, as well as the cute, colourful characters of these mediums. I learned origami with my mother and grandmother, and the intricate patterns of Japanese paper and textiles always fascinated me.

    My love for drawing led me to complete a degree in illustration at university. During this time of study, I had the opportunity to explore exciting media like screen printing, which was the focus of my final major project. I created screen-printed illustrations on fabric, which I then pieced together for appliqué and embellishment. This style developed into fashion illustration, and after graduating I purchased my first Apple Mac computer. Having no prior knowledge of Photoshop meant that I had to teach myself, but this was good for me as it meant becoming very experimental and unconventional in my approach.

    Following my university degree, I became very proactive in entering competitions, submitting my work to group art exhibitions, and offering to illustrate for emerging magazines and companies regardless of the pay, just for the exposure. I had a day job alongside these activities and as my style of work developed, I gradually started to build more contacts in the world of fashion and editorial illustration, and began to work on paid commissions. I later travelled to Japan and worked there for three years, freelancing and illustrating for various magazines, clothing companies and books.

    I created this book with the hope that it will inspire readers to become confident in using Photoshop, and to show that it can really work in your favour to create an exciting range of fashion work. I hope that my tutorials are useful, and that my illustrations inspire you; and as you work through each chapter you gain further confidence to adapt the skills and techniques outlined to suit and develop your own style of work.

    My illustration work for my final degree show was created with fabrics that had been individually screen printed and appliquéd together. This intricate style of embellishment, and my love for figure and portrait drawing, led me into fashion and beauty illustration.

    My hand-drawn illustrations feature collaged elements of traditional washi paper. The Japanese technique of kiri-e (paper cutting) has heavily influenced my non-digital fashion illustration work.

    My work has varied from editorial illustrations for magazines, to clothing graphics and book illustration.

    Digital equipment

    In order to create and enhance digital and mixed media fashion illustrations, you will need the equipment I have listed here. Some items are not absolutely essential, such as the graphics tablet or digital SLR camera, however I personally find all these items incredibly beneficial in helping me to create work to the best professional standard.

    Graphics tablet

    Although it takes time to become used to working with one, a graphics tablet makes using Photoshop and other creative applications much easier and more natural. A graphics tablet consists of a digital tablet and a pen, enabling you to draw digitally in Photoshop in the same way you would with a regular pen and paper; it also allows you to navigate your workspace, as you would normally do with a mouse. A graphics tablet is usually pressure sensitive, so it also makes the whole creative experience much more intuitive and faster than using a mouse. Moreover a larger graphics tablet allows for even more precision, often making it well worth the investment.

    Computer

    With the ever-increasing quality of digital photography and scanning technology, you will need a computer that can handle editing large images and files. So when purchasing either a PC or Apple Mac computer, it is worth investing in one with at least 8GB of RAM, as well as a generous hard drive for storage. RAM is required for open applications, and the more you have, the faster and more responsive your computer will be – especially when running multiple applications together such as Photoshop, Illustrator and a web browser.

    Scanner

    As scanners are becoming much more affordable, a good mid-range model should be sufficient for scanning images at a decent resolution. An A4 (Letter) sized flat-bed scanner will allow you to scan your work in either black and white or colour, which can then be saved and worked on digitally.

    Digital SLR camera

    It is well worth investing in a good digital SLR camera to capture high quality images in terms of resolution and colour space. Most modern digital SLRs can take photos in the .raw format; although these images are much larger in comparison to a standard .jpg, they capture much more data at the point of shooting. This means that when you open a .raw image in Photoshop, you can use the additional colour and lighting data to adjust your image with far more precision and control.

    Photoshop overview

    Each chapter in this book will demonstrate how to use different Photoshop techniques in your fashion

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