Fashion Figure

I had to re do my fashion figure as the image had come out blurry and wasn't sized correctly.

Here I opened up a fashion figure in illustrator and then drew around it with the pen tool.

APPLYING A FILTER

For this task, I had to get my background from before and apply a filter onto it. I did this by opening up my background, then going onto filter-sketch-halftone pattern and then a menu will open up to the right allowing you to chose the filter and change the size contrast and pattern type. i played around with this until i found an effect that I liked, and then clicked okay to apply. Then I had to open up an image I had drawn in illustrator, make it slightly smaller and then drag it from the layers palette onto my background, i then filled it with the paint tool.

IMAGE EDITING - Giving A Fuzzy Appearance

For this task, I had to again with the same image, click on the cyan channel at the side in the channels menu, I then had to click on the move tool on the left hand side menu and then with the arrow keys on the keyboard, nudge the image slightly to the left or to the right, this gave the image a fuzzy wobbly appearance.

IMAGE EDITING - Setting Points

For this task, I had to set the white grey and black points of my image. I uploaded my image and then i had to go to image-adjustements-levels and then click on the far right eye dropper for the white point, the middle for the grey point and the far left for the black point, after clicking on each I clicked on my image at the exact same point. This gave a really interesting effect and the colours looked incredible once finished.

PATTERN STAMP STOOL; changing a section of background

For this task, I had to open up a background and change a section of it using a pattern I had created. I opened up a fashion background and using the magic wand tool, I then clicked on a part of my background which then highlighted the rest of the image with the same colours and tones. I then had to open up another image I was going to use for my pattern, add it to my patterns and then use the pattern stamp tool. I changed the opacity and effect of the pattern stamp and then you could just colour over where the magic wand had selected and it didn't go over the lines which was good.

IMAGE LEVELS; brightening up a background

On this take, I had to use my previous image, so I decided to use the fish again as it was a bright and colourful image in the first place. We had to go to window and make sure channels was ticked and a menu should come up on your right. Then we had to change the mode to CYMK colour and then we could play with the different colours in the new menu to see what effects we got, we could also use the sliders in image-brightness and contrast to see what colours we could get.

PATTERN STAMP TOOL & INVERTING COLOUR

Here is my evidence of using the pattern stamp tool by taking a picture of a fish, inverting it using the command and I keys, and saving it as a pattern, then opening up a new picture and using the fish pattern on the new image to create a new pattern onto the background.

Final CAD Drawings; LONG TIE DYE FITTED SKIRT

Long Tie Dye Fitted Skirt;


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Final CAD Drawings; SHORT BLACK LEATHER LOOK JACKET

Short Black Leather Look Jacket;


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Final CAD Drawings; TROUSERS

Trousers;



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Final CAD Drawings; BROWN GREEN LEATHER LOOK JACKET

Brown Green Leather Look Jacket;


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Final CAD Drawings; LONG RED VELVET DRESS

Long Red Velvet Dress;




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Final CAD Drawings; SHORT VELVET DRESS

Short Velvet Dress;


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Zipper pully on cad

I have just completed creating a zipper pully on cad.

I found this really easy to do and as i used a cad book, I also found the instructions very easy and simple to follow. I think its good to have one of these handy as we do a lot of cad drawing of garments and our designs so having this at the ready means we can place on a more noticeable and life like zip.

Cad Poster

As part of our cad brief, we have to create a poster that could be used for the fashion show, here is mine;

I think there are a lot of improvements on my poster that I could do to make it a lot better. I think the writing could stand out a bit more and I could change the text to something more appropriate for a fashion show poster. I also think that the figure could have been a lot more defined.

I do like the way I have made the background to look like spotlights though as I think that definitely relates to a fashion show, I also like the purple shade and think it works well with the silver and black.

Ralph pink bodice block tutorial

I have just completed the ralph pink bodice block tutorial, here is my bodice block in relation to my measurements.

I found doing this tutorial reasonably difficult as there was a lot to do and it was a very fiddly exercise. There were lots of different points and making sure you had all of the measurements and number right was very hard, I found the hardest part of the task was making sure each point was totally separate to all the other lines surrounding it, as when you tried to copy the points and move them onto other areas, a lot of the time lots of other lines ended up coming with it, so this was a very hard part of the task for me.

Also following him was another hard part of the task and you had to focus your full concentration on the tutorial and try your hardest to watch and listen to every little thing he said and did, although it was quite interesting to see how the bodice block started to come together after plotting all the points.

Toile Diary Blazer Jacket

I started off by firstly tracing off a standard jacket body block and standard sleeve block.

I then started to slightly alter my patterns. I left the darts on the back piece but changed the dart on the front pattern and closed it reopening it under the arm. I shortened the length of the front and back patterns slightly as the jacket is going with my trousers that angle out at each side therefore I didn't want the jacket to be too long and cover the trousers.

I adapted the front pattern piece to fit the collar in. I placed in the shape of how I wanted my collar to be.

I then added a 1cm seam allowance onto the front back and sleeve. I also shorted the sleeve slightly by taking off 3cm at each side at the bottom.

I then cut out the patterns out of calico.

I started firstly by sewing in all of the darts on the front pieces and back pieces.

I then sewed the 2 back pieces together to make it just the one back piece, I sewed them together with a 1cm seam allowance.

I then sewed the shoulder seams together with a 1cm seam allowance.

Then I sewed down the side seams so that my front and back pieces were sewn together.

Now I could start on the sleeves. I firstly sewed the sleeves together with a 1cm seam allowance.

I then pinned the sleeve heads into the sleeves holes on my garments and then sewed them both in with a 1cm seam allowance.

Now my basic jacket body was sewn together, I could concentrate on the collar. Firstly I had to pattern for it and I did this using my front pattern.

Here, you can see that I drew on where I wanted the collar to sit and how I wanted it to look on my pattern.

I cut the collar piece out, added a 1cm seam allowance and then cut it out twice on the fold.

Here, I have sewn along the outer line of the collar sewing the 2 collar pieces together with a 1cm seam allowance.

I then snipped around the seam allowance of the collar to add in extra ease and then added a retaining row.

I then attached the collar onto the jacket into place and sewed it on with a 1cm seam allowance. I will need to face my jacket and collar and also add a hem although I will wait to do this on my final garment in fittings week.

I did all of these steps in my final fabric and then once I had completed these steps, I went onto the facing and hemming of the jacket.

I started by cutting out a pattern for my facing by using the patterns for my jacket, I cut out a facing for the neck and collar.

I hemmed the jacket as well and made sure that the hem was exactly 3cm.

Here it a close up of the collar as well, I used the material I used for my small cropped jacket on the collar as I wanted it to stand out and be different,