Creative Fashion Illustration Techniques

Overview

“Now that we have completed the final fashion illustration, we can play with context and narrative. Take your final figure and arrange them in different backgrounds. Try solid colour or backgrounds with texture, do they take away or enhance the final piece? You can also try to place the figure in your surrounding space. In between books, on the coffee table, or next to a plant. Try and see how that works or doesn't work. Finally, you can place the piece in a box frame. A box frame can accommodate all the layers you have made and it creates a polished gallery feel. Whatever you try - see which you like the best. ”

In this video lesson Connie Lim addresses the topic: Different Backgrounds and Context, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Fashion Illustration Techniques. Learn how to combine traditional drawing and collage techniques to create a dynamic fashion illustration.

Partial transcription of the video

“Different background and context In this lesson I'm gonna show you how the background can help change the mood or the narrative of your illustration. Anything that has texture or a smooth surface and see how it looks. So let's have a look here. It's just on this wooden table but I quite like the subtle textures of the grain and I think that works as a composition. It's a bit diagonal but I think it works well with the angles of the garment. In this case I would take a picture and use it as reference or use it as an Instagram photo but let's see how it looks on other backgrounds. First I'm g...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Creative Fashion Illustration Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (140)
• 3518 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 35m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Fashion, Illustration

• Areas

  Collage, Traditional illustration