The illustrations included here can be classified into one of two groups: basic or creative.Basic illustrations are those that a designer would use to bring designs to life, for the purpose of representing garments and pieces as closely as possible to real life for clients and buyers to see the presented designs clearly.On the contrary, creative illustrations mostly resemble those that a fashion illustrator would not use to give a realistic impression of a piece or a collection, but rather use to transmit the essence or main idea.

Essential Fashion Illustration: Digital is a complete, in-depth tutorial that guides you step by step through the digital techniques typically employed in fashion design and illustration. Through dozens of practical exercises, you'll develop your skills using tools such as graphics tablets, scanners, cameras, photo-editing and design software, and more. Each of the exercises includes definitions for the technical terms, keeping you up-to-speed on all the latest techniques and teoh-speak being used in digital fashion design and illustration today. This is an essential guide for amateurs or beginners who want to break into the industry, and for professionals already established, who are looking to improve and infuse their current work with new ideas and techniques.

Practice the techniques and tips in real-time using the enclosed GO-ROM, which includes Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and image files featured in the book. This unique teaching tool is a valuable resource for artists who want to learn the basics of digital fashion illustration and established designers who want to discover the latest tricks of the trade.

INTRODUCTION

Equipment

Photoshop

Illustrator

Howto clean a

scanned image

How to scan different

parts of an image

Photographic camera

LINES

Basic vector lines

Creative brush

Live trace

Line color

Black lines

Creative lines

Stamp filter

COLOR

Coloring with Photoshop

Coloring with illustrator

Color retouching

Eolor grading in Illustrator

Color grading in Photoshop

TRANSPARENCY

Transparency in Photoshop

Multiply mode

Creative transparency

Composition

PATTERNED FABRIC

Basic patterned fabrics

with Photoshop

Creative digital patterned fabric

Adjusting the patterned

fabric in Photoshop

Basic patterned fabrics

with Illustrator

Patterned fabric with

Illustrator and Photoshop

Creative patterns with Photoshop

Patterns with symbols

TEXTURES

Color halftone filter

Texture with fonts

Textured background

Vintage texture

COLLAGE

Basic digital collage

Vintage creative collage

Contemporary creative collage

DIGITAL PAINTING

Painting with Photoshop

Tracing with Photoshop

Illustration and photographs

Tracing with Illustrator

MIXED TECI-INIOUES

Watercolor

Working with splotches

Drawing and photographs

Vector drawing and photographs

Pencil and wood texture

Pencil and photographs