Photoshop Stand Work

(Photoshopped Illustration Stand work produced by Myself) 

      I really wanted to see what my stand work would look like on a human silhouette and I did this by using Photoshop. Photoshop has always been a keen interest of mine as I still consider myself as a 'rookie' to its wonders. Nonetheless, my skills on photoshop enabled me to carry out this process which was cutting out and layering on my stand work on top of catwalk models so that I could get and extremely realistic approach to this experiment. I began this process by simply cutting around the silhouette of my stand work and placing them on the model, similarly to how they were on the stand. Not only this, but I thought that it would be a great idea to transfer the garments onto a human model as oppose to a drawn one. This really helped me see how the textures reflected off of a human form, but also to see how the colourings on the garment would show once placed on a figure and it worked much more effectively as the colours shown through more so than on the drawn illustrations. 

    By using this process, I hope that it will help me develop even more quick drawings so that I can have more of a direct idea as to what I want as a final garment(s). From seeing how relatively quick it took to create my knit samples, I want to see whether I can be ambitious and perhaps create more than one garment to reflect on a capsule collection to make it intwine better that just having the one. Although, before I start getting carried away, I want to do some more drawings and illustrations prior to making my final capsule collection to relate it to my theme of 'Living with Dementia' as much as possible. 

(Photoshopped Stand Work produced by Myself)

      This then led to layering the stand work on the model using scale, rotation and much more to add even more depth and detail to the digital garment. Furthermore, this has not only helped me develop my Photoshop skills further, but also encouraged me to try out new methods and practicalities which I can now use for future reference. If I didn't use this process, I can imagine that I would be struggling a lot more to understand its perspective on a human form as oppose to a mannequin. Nonetheless, it still would have been even better if I took a primary photograph or even physically adding my samples on top of a real person to get a glimpse of placement, scale and detailing.

    Overall, these digital processes have given me more of a rounded perspective of my stand work on a more realistic silhouette. I plan on using these images to inspire me for further drawings and illustrations by picking out segments from lines, shapes and processes that I have used within the samples. Not only this, but i also want to try layering with my drawings and illustrations like I did above on Photoshop as it made the garment look much fuller and alluring to the eye. Despite this, I want my garments to be much more traditional in a sense that I don't want it to just be a pile of random gathered material, I want to look into depth of trouser patterns, skirts and much more other than plain knitwear. I feel that this will make my garment(s) look much more professional but also thought out in terms of process because I want to represent the absence within the mind, yet still portray the person from the outside, hence I will use distraught knit with something rather simple and elegant to really enhance this theme to its fullest.