Illustration

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Monday 5/5

Aim: How can you continue to complete your book cover illustration ?

Do Now: book cover written reflection

HW:Fashion illustration exercises pick two out of the 3 activities and complete them by Friday 5/9!See website for info!

Tues 5/6

Aim: How can complete and assess your book cover illustration?

Do Now: set up work for critique

HW:Fashion illustration exercises pick two out of the 3 activities and complete them by Friday 5/9!See website for info!

Wed 5/7

Aim: What is Editorial Fashion Illustration?

Do Now: Explain how fashion has a role in your life.

HW:Fashion illustration exercises pick two out of the 3 activities and complete them by Friday 5/9!See website for info!

Editorial Fashion Illustrations are illustrations that accompany text in a fashion-related article. The illustration can be for print (magazines) or web (sites/blogs etc).

Fashion illustration styles of drawing the figure are exaggerated. Proportions are elongated.

In a normal figure drawing the length of the body is about 7 ½-8 head lengths long.

In Fashion figure drawing about 10-11 heads fit the length of the body

Notice the upper body is shorter

Legs are Long and Lean

Not a lot of detail for the face

Hair style and accessories are important

Head Counts for Female and Male Fashion Figures

# of Head-lengths

Body PartWomen Men

The head1 1

The upper torso and neck 23

The lower torso1 1

The upper legs (above the knee) 32

The lower legs and feet4 4

Fashion Illustration Styles

Fashion Illustrators use a multitude of art media to create their illustrations.

Designers will plan out their collections using fashion figure drawing, while illustrators for print may use portraiture or other styles of drawing the figure to convey an idea about a particular style of fashion.

Collage

Mixed media

Digital

For your fashion illustration:

You will illustrate a self portrait using a white tee shirt and an accessory of your choice.

You rwill render the portrait and hair using graphite.

You will design the tee-shirt and accessory to illustrate a theme * of your choice, using another medium of your choice.

Options include:Scratch art paperCollageThree-dimensional collageMarkerWatercolor

• Themes may include: Allude to a movie/costume design for a store or brand of your choiceDesign/Pattern (textile design) Nature/ScienceA time period in fashion Fantasy

Thurs 5/8

Aim: How can you create your fashion illustration reference photo?

Do Now: Explain the props you brought in and why you chose them

HW:Fashion illustration exercises pick two out of the 3 activities and complete them by Friday 5/9!See website for info!

Fri 5/9

Aim: How can you begin to draw your editorial fashion illustration?

Do Now: List three techniques you can use with graphite to create shading and texture effects.

HW: Due today.