"Jade" Final Portfolio Presentation

My Portfolio Cover "Asia"
The collection was inspired by my recent trip to Shanghai & Beijing

This group is entitled "Jade"
I was inspired by the beauty of China
The print is my own design

My fabric and color influence for this group

"Blossom"

This is the fabric & color influence for my group entitled "Blossom"

This is the illustration I plan to use for this group

Just one of the beautiful pictures of cherry blossoms I captured in China

A print I created that was influenced by these pictures

Cherrry blossoms in the Forbidden City, Beijing

Cherry blossoms in a Shanghai Temple

"Ming"

Beautiful stone work within a temple in Shanghai

The Great Wall of China, Beijing

Intricate tile pattern within a tmple in Shanghai

My illustration for the group entitled "Ming"

My color and fabric inspiration for this group

Module 6 Preliminary Work Phase 2

This will be one of my double page spreads for my Sprint 2013 Design Collection

Module 6 Preliminary Final Portfolio

Model Side View

Model Front View

Model Partial Front & Side View

Model Partial Side View

Cherry Blossom Print

Falling Ivy Floral Border Print

Blossom Vine Print 1

Blossom Vine Print 2

Hombre Snakeskin Print

Cotton 4 Gauge Knit

Cotton Lace with Venice Lace Edging

Engineered Venice Lace Border

Pleated Abstract Animal Print

The Great Wall of China Beijing 1

The Great Wall of China Beijing 2



Cloisinet Chinese Vase Beijing

Vase Closeup of Birds Beijing

Pink & White Cherry Blossom in Shanghai Garden

Stone Inset Walkway in Shanghai Garden

Mountain range surrounding The Great Wall Beijing1

Mountain range surrounding The Great Wall Beijing 2

Ivy in Shanghai Garden

Architecture in Shanghai Garden

Pink Cherry Blossoms Shanghai

Design Competition Final

Design Competition Part 2

Module 4 Design Competition Preliminary Work Round 1

This was my 1st attempt at drawing freehand with a pen & pad within Illustrator. While I am very good at drawing the hand/eye coordination did not come easily for me with this new tool as you can clearly see!

I decided to find an image of a fashion model and use it a a croque to trace over instead of drawing my figure freehand.

This is my 1st attempt of creating a fashion figure with the help of the above live fashion image.

 Design Competition Preliminary work Round 1

1-     Opened illustrator

2-     Sketched freehand for the first time to practice using the pen tool.

3-     I had unsatisfactory result so I Googled a fashion model jped image and imported it into Illustrator to use as a reference to draw from.

4-     I lowered the opacity of the image layer to 30% and created a new layer on top and traced the image on top with a standard brush at 1 pt. thickness.

5-     I created a Dress layer where I drew in the horizontal fuchsia lines of the dress, gloves, shoes and lipstick.

6-     I added a Skin shadow layer in order to create depth on the image of the model. I used the same color grey but changed to calligraphy tip brush 2pt 30% opacity and added some shadow strokes around the models face, neck, arms and legs in order t create dimension.

7-     Next I created a Dress shadow layer and using a calligraphy tip brush at 30% opacity of the same shade of fuchsia 2pt. thickness I brushed in the pleats of the dress. I brushed over and over again areas I wanted to darken in order to create a greater sense of depth and shadow.

8-     Next I created a New background layer and used the grunge brush at 10pt thickness I created the orange splash background as a way to ground my fashion image and to also add drama.

9-     Lastly I signed it and rotated my signature to its current position.

10-  Finally I saved a copy of this image for web & devices in order to post it on my blog.

Eli Tahari image link

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Revised Free Wheelin' Album Cover

Module 3 Original Image "Free Wheelin' " by Bob Dylan

Module 3 Preliminary Work

Revised Final Image of "Mannequin Magic"

Module 2 Final Submission: "Mannequin Magic"

   “Mannequin Magic” by Christine Snow

Module 2 Original Image for Manipulation

This is a photographic composition of a dress form I took within the design room of my company. I will be recreating this image with the intention of forming a "Cinderella" type fantasy. To accomplish this I will manipulate my image in both Photoshop & Illustrator.