Feminine illustration

This is one of the first illustrations I did with the Prisma color markers.  I was still learning how to make the shading work.  This is another example of taking my design from pencil to marker and making a fashion flat too. 

Green with Evny - illustration

Another fashion illustration. 

 This is my ballerina in green.  Envy is her name.  Her favorite color is green.  

Once again I used the Prisma markers for the color illustration. 

Happy St. Patty's day.

 

Vintage Orange Dreamsicle - illustration

This was another assignment for school.  In my textile class, I had to manipulate a piece of fabric and make it my own.  I then had to design a garment that would show that new fabric.  Drum roll.....
VINTAGE -- Orange Dreamsicle.

Orange Dreamsicle - Mood board.

fashion illustration and flat drawing (hand drawn, not in CAD)

Fabric was altered with ink dropped onto the fabric, misted with water and then air dried.  

The damask image  was screen printed form an original design of mine in silver ink. 

Here is a picture of the drawings taken from pencil to Prisma markers.

Three Wild Things - Illustrations

Oh ladies three... let the wild things come out to play.

These ladies were a project I did for school.  The assignment said that you needed three fashion figures that were interacting in some way. 
Once again, PrismaColor Markers were used. I decided they needed to be smiling.  I had to choose fabrics and then illustrate from those.  Here are pictures of the mood board:

Front page : Chocolate Bliss

Fashion Flats of the items the illustrated girls are wearing.

Mood board with fabric samples and fashion illustrations.

The Red Dress - illustration

This is an illustration I did a while back.  I love ruffles.  You can see the pencil sketch and the finished color fashion illustration side by side.  The red one was done with Prisma Markers.  I used a touch of white colored pencil in the hair, the rest was markers.  When I first used the markers, I did not know if I would like them.  I have  always been a colored pencil kinda girl.  But I was hooked with the easy way the markers blended together.  

I am going to start posting more of my illustrations here.  

Let me know what you think!

Tara

Fashion is not for Sissy's

 For all of you poo poo'ers, take a look at yourself.  Are you wearing something?  Anything at all? (if not, OK... go put something on!)  Fashion is not just frivolous, all humans wear some form of covering.  

That, my friends is Fashion.  

I am going to school for Fashion Design and it is high time the blog reflects that a little more.

There is so much in fashion from the fibers to the fabric, from the designing of clothing to the cutting and manufacturing (sew it up), from trending to marketing,  High fashion to ready to wear, and Fashion forecasting (people actually go out and find what colors and silhouettes will be in style in the future.  I think there is some math and statistics involved too)... someone has to do all of these things.  

Dots and Ruffles... I love you so.

And there is a market for it.... a BIG one.  

I bet you did not know all of that.  
 (the illustration was my midterm.  I was given a swatch of fabric and told to design something.  It had to be completed before the end of class and handed in.) 

Well....I have been designing my own fashion line.  

I am learning pattern making, draping, textiles (what fibers the clothing is made of)
and computer aided drafting for fashion design.   I have already taken the class on fashion illustration.  And yes, that is a job that people get payed to do too.  

The fashion industry is very cut throat and very competitive.  
 



To quote designer Michael Kors, 
" Fashion is not for sissy's."



 I have been really interested in textile design.

From vintage designs
to the cutting edge, I am so excited to be learning so much about this field. 

 To reflect my schooling, I am also transitioning my etsy shop to reflect more fashion items. (more vintage than anything else).
  Don't get me wrong... paper and I are still best friends.  But there is always room for more friends.

So check back often, and see what new things I have found. 

Tell me what era you love.  I am into the 1940's.