Technology advances at an ever-increasing speed and in the world of Fashion Illustration it’s essential to stay relevant and up-to-date with techniques as many art directors look for artists who are able to combine hand drawn and digital elements. As a trainer and illustrator I’m passionate about hand-created illustration and techniques, but when this is combined with digital illustration, I get very excited!
Starting with scanned hand-drawn illustrations, this full-day intensive will take you from step 1 through to rendering your figures digitally, working in layers, applying effects, patterns, backgrounds, using brushes, plus more, then combining multiple figures into one final composition.
You will be amazed at how much you can learn in one day – it’s not as hard as you think, if you learn how!
Suitable for complete beginners or those with some knowledge of Photoshop. (You will need a laptop with Photoshop, preferably CS5 or CS6)
Held in the beautiful Frankie and Swiss studio, Sth Yarra.
Class size: Maximum 10-12 people – at The Drawing Salon, size does matter. Cost: $145 includes notes.
In all my time teaching and practicing fashion illustration, the comment I hear more than any other is “I can’t draw faces!” Poorly drawn faces ruin more otherwise fantastic and professional illustrations than anything else.
Faces feature in each of The Drawing Salon courses, but there can never be too much time spent on this, and regardless of what level a person is at, faces always need and benefit from further study and practice. This workshop gives you to opportunity to focus purely on this topic.
This one-day intensive will begin by examining the cranial structure of the face as studied by the classical fine artists, so we can all understand exactly what and why we’re drawing when we’re creating our expressive fashion images. We take this new information through a series of illustrations exploring a variety of views, and finish by looking at stylised fashion faces – how can you draw that face in a few lines and make it look fabulous?
At the end of the day you can moonwalk out the door with a booty of killer illustrations under your arm – what’s not to love?
Held in the beautiful Frankie and Swiss studio, Sth Yarra.
Class size: Maximum 12 people – at The Drawing Salon, quantity means quality. Cost: $135 includes materials and notes
