Week 3 Notes

MAKE COOKIE CUTTER:

·      Place object on top of another object

·      Object, path, delete objects below

ZIPS

·      Window

·      Brushes

·      Get image of zipper and trace one of the teeth

·      Put invisible box around the outside of it using rectangle tool if we want space around it

·      Select it, drag into brush palette as pattern brush

·      Can change colour in options – colourization

·      Draw line with pen tool then select pattern

·      Option copy, double click, flip

·      Can do the same with cross stitching, overlocking, etc

SHADING

·      Draw shape for shadow

·      Fill with dark grey

·      Change opacity

BUTTONS

·      Draw button, command D to keep duplicating, and drag

WEEK 2: Pants and Shorts

This week we began trade sketching pants and shorts. I feel I did really well considering my lack of experience and practise! The jewel detail on the shorts took me a really long time, as did the elasticised bands on the pants. We also learnt how to join points:

JOINING POINTS

·      Highlight

·      Object, transform

·      Reflect vertical

·      Copy

·      Use arrow keys to move them into place

·      Direct select (second arrow), select over the two end points/join of the reflections

·      Object, path, average

·      Both (or vertical?)

·      Object, path, join

·      Avoid making a point in the middle by going too high in the centre line

SCISSORS TOOL (under the eraser)

·      Can only cut along path not points

·      Click wherever you want it to cut between and press delete

SEAMLINE

·      Draw a line (with shift if we want it straight)

·      Show options (stroke palette)

·      Tick dashed line

·      Fill in dash and gap values

Add anchor points and maneouvre with select tool. E.g. to create folds in the hem

Command G to group things

These are the shorts and pants I drew:

And here are my front, side and back trade sketches:

I am really proud of these although they took me a good six hours.. I can't wait until I get more efficient because at the moment I have trouble altering lines once I have drawn them, or creating seperate lines etc. 

DDS TEMPLATES

In week one I gained my bearings tracing body templates using the pen tool. Some are slightly disjointed but I eventually got the hang of it! Below are a range of front, die and back views, along with a few fashion poses. It took me a long time, but I felt myself improving a lot with time and practice.