Hi everyone!
I am back with a new video and this is going to be a fashion illustration, mainly just
a form of practice for me to get back into doing fashion illustrations once again.
So let’s get started.
I’ve been meaning to open up my commissions once again and it’s not open yet, but hopefully
soon it will be.
I’ll probably make an announcement if it is.
But basically, the last time I accepted commissions or paid drawing requests, I was working with
Copic markers, and back then I would straight off say that my main medium was markers.
Nowadays, however, I’ve been using a lot of watercolours and ink and I’ve probably
said this a million times already, but I love working with them, and I want to keep working
with them.
So this was a random illustration practicing with the materials when colouring clothing,
so that hopefully when I do open my commissions once again, I have better control of the materials
or at least I know what I’m doing and I can produce work to the best of my abilities.
So as much as possible, I want to be confident in saying that it’s worth your money if
you decide to commission me for an artwork or a fashion illustration.
I feel like there’s still ways to go till I get that kind of confidence, which is why
I’m practicing.
And yeah!
I mean the last time I used watercolours for a fashion illustration was my draw this again
challenge.
And back then I remember saying that that particular video wasn’t going to be my comeback
to fashion illustrations.
It was kind of just a video that I decided to do.
This video however, is the start of getting back into it.
Obviously, if you’ve been following my YouTube for a long time, you would know that my channel
started out with fashion illustration, and it’s one of the main reasons why I’m here
making videos and why I’ve decided to take art more seriously.
So it definitely means something for me.
I’ve grown attached to it.
I’m definitely trying to reignite the passion I had for it as well as the passion I had
for fashion design.
Talking about the process of this illustration, I really wanted to be able to create cool
effects with the watercolours, and I also talked about how I love the stained kind of
look or the harsh lines you get when the watercolour dries.
My favourite effect so far is when you do a wet on wet technique, wherein you lay down
a layer of colour and then while that’s still wet, you add a blob of water, and the
colour gets pushed aside.
When it dries it creates this very organic shape.
It reminds me a bit of bio mimicry, but it’s not really.
So that’s what I’ve been practicing with watercolours recently.
I actually created another illustration or fashion illustration and I filmed it as well,
so let me know if you want to see that soon.
Like I said, I’ve been practicing.
And I’ve also done a bit of research on how other illustrators are using watercolours
for their fashion illustrations.
I really wanted something that was semi-realistic and also quite dramatic in its use of materials.
Or at the very least, it shows the wonderful effects of the medium.
The Fashion Illustrator I was really inspired by is Davide Morettini.
I’m not really sure if that’s how you pronounce his name, but I’ll link his website
in the description box.
But I was really fascinated with his fashion illustrations, which are beautifully rendered
with the texture of every fabric, and it’s done in a realistic style, but he also incorporates
watercolour splashes into his illustrations.
I probably can’t explain it properly, so I urge you guys to take a look at his work
and hopefully see what I mean.
Yeah!
Basically I just love colouring outside the lines and sometimes not colouring everything.
Since I really like areas of my drawing to remain white or the colour of the paper that
I am using, I was drawn to Davide Morettini’s style.
And of course I had to incorporate that into my work.
Whenever I would colour outside the lines, more often than not, it would actually happen
by pure accident.
But in this case, I really went ahead and added water just on the edge of the damp watercolour
layer, so that the colour bleeds outside the “lines” – quote unquote – since at
that point there are no outlines yet.
Anyway, upon doing that, I fell in love even more with this technique or style.
I feel like it does celebrate how magical and awesome watercolours are.
The effect it gives is absolutely unpredictable, and it’s awesome at the same time.
To some extent, I believe that you do have to know how to control the medium, but at
the same time, you also have to let it react in its own unexpected way, and sometimes you’ll
just be surprised at the end result.
I also want to briefly talk about the brand of watercolours I am using which is the Koh-I-Noor
Brilliant watercolour disc set.
I would 100% recommend this set.
I’ve had this around the same time I bought my Mont Marte watercolours, and I used it
for a while, but I didn’t really like it as much because it only had 12 colours.
I don’t know, younger me thought it was lame if a set only had 12 colours.
Now I definitely know better and a part of me regrets that I somehow ignored this brand
for a while because I was using the Mont Marte watercolour palette.
Like don’t get me wrong, I still love that palette, but this one has incredibly vibrant
colours.
It’s very pigmented, and it’s also inexpensive so I definitely recommend this.
And yeah!
Anyway, that is it for this video!
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Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next one!