Cutting Edge Fashion Illustration: Step-by-step Contemporary Fashion Illustration - Traditional, Digital and Mixed Media

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! Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration Introduction Photoshop Tool palette Photoshop workspace Photoshop overview Digital equipment Fundamentals Scan, clean and retouch a freehand illustration Photograph, clean and and retouch an artwork Retouch an illustration using the clone stamp tool Colour Create layers to apply colours with the brush tool Create a path with the Pen tool to add colour Colour a full illustration using paths Create and apply colour gradients Create colour schemes using Adobe Kuler Textures Apply paper elements to a drawing Apply fabric elements to a drawing Use digital brushes and textures to embellish a drawing Apply scanned ink marks and drops to an illustration Mixed media Add illustrative elements to a photograph Add photographic elements to a fashion drawing Combine photographs and digital colour in a photomontage Patterns Create a repeat pattern by hand Edit a repeat pattern in Photoshop Apply patterns to a fashion drawing A career in fashion illustration Generating ideas Practising your skills Developing your own style Successful self-promotion Online self-promotion Creating your online portfolio Useful contacts Acknowledgments About the author Bookstore Contemporary fashion and beauty illustrations combine a wide range of exciting materials and techniques, so whether you're a budding fashion designer or illustrator, or simply want to learn more illustration techniques using Adobe Photoshop, Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration will be your ultimate go-to resource. Each chapter covers a range of themes, from the fundamentals of Photoshop, to combining colour, texture and mixed media with your fashion illustrations Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration focuses on ways to create exciting, modern digital fashion illustrations, providing inspiration and clear advice, helping you to be digitally creative. Clear step-by-step techniques and accessible tutorials break it down into manageable steps which can be followed and applied to your own work.