January 4, 2010
The creativity song or how to increase your creativity

You have possibly read about ways or techniques to increase your creativity. I did it, too. But this one, I have experienced myself recently so I decided to share it with you.

You know that sounds, color, smells, tastes, images are able to recall certain memories or states at human beings. So, while working in my class during the fashion drawing for beginners short course at Central Saint Martins in London, they put us several times this song.

After one week, I randomly heard the same song in a different scenery, but I suddenly felt a crazy will to start drawing. I felt a boost of creativity and a will to create.
The same can happen with any kind of set: smell, decor, color.

If you don’t have such a set that could boost your creativity due to previous experience, you can simply create one. If you want it to be a song, train your mind. While working listen for the same song several times. After a while listen again to the same song.

See what happens. Then enjoy your creativity boost!

By Catalina Rusu

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November 16, 2009
Karl Lagerfeld - A Quick Sketch

iulias:

Awesome to see Karl drawing. He made my day!

Watch him:

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October 12, 2009
A tutorial on how to illustrate using the iPhone/iPod Touch

Due to the kindness of one of my favorite iPhone painters, Susan Murtaugh, retired Artist and community volunteer, we can provide to you this tutorial on how to illustrate faces using iPhone apps, I’ve spoken about in this previous post.


This tutorial applies for male faces, as well as for female faces. Just adapt the curves and the colors a little bit. When should you use this kind of drawing in the fashion creation process? There are multiple ways of which one can think of. I will give you an example only: print on the garment you’ve created an illustration of yours and the result will be astonishing!


The images and the explanations inserted speak for themselves, so I will let you enjoy learning!

Thank you for your support, Susan!

By Catalina Rusu

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September 30, 2009
Fashion Illustration Media: iPhone Apps

It is probably one of the less known, talked or written about fashion illustration medias, but surely one of the most at hand and comfortable ones. I’m talking about the iPhone Apps.

When using it you won’t need a huge bag to carry sketchbooks, pencils, brushes, paints. All you need is a pocket for your little, fancy iPhone. And every time a brilliant idea or just a casual one occurs to you, take out your iPhone and start sketching or painting. Quite uncommon and so challenging. Only when you’ll try to make an illustration on your own, you’ll know why is it challenging.

Illustration made with Layers App by Catalina Rusu


It works somehow similar to softwares like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, but it’s much easier to use and more intuitive. You can draw with your finger or with a Pogo Stylus, a pen specially designed for iPhone drawing.
Here’s a list of iPhone Apps developed for sketching, painting or for processing your works afterwords, if you want to:

- Brushes2
- Layers
- Inspire
- Artists touch
- Photo fx
- Photogene
- Artisan
- 101 photoeffects
- Spinart
- Vihgo
- Eastern draw
- Jackson pollock
- Paintbook
- Mill colour
- No photo realistic painter
- Musophobia
- ZeusDraw
- Frame Muse
- Sketchbook

Now there’s one thing left to do! Upload the apps and start testing your digital art skills.

*Special thanks for contributing to this post to Patricio Villarroel, one of my favorite iPhone finger painters.

By Catalina Rusu

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September 26, 2009
Fashion Illustration Media: Monochrome

It’s important to know what kind of media to choose when transposing on paper a design idea you have in order for the further creation steps to be possible. Taking into account a wide range of factors like your time, your location, available materials, the type of design you are going to draw, you choose the media you will use to depict your fashion figure.

Monochrome media includes graphite pencils, charcoal and charcoal pencils. Charcoal is perfect for highlighting strong shadows and lights, and for creating the illusion of form. A graphite pencil is usually used for an initial sketch or for showing contour outlines. This is the tool that fashion designers and illustrators use most often. So be ready to have quite a few of them.

Graphite pencil illustration created by George Stavrinos

When buying graphite pencils be sure to collect a range of pencils across the different grades that are available, from 9H (hardest) to 9B (softest). Charcoal and charcoal pencils are also available in hard and soft grades - hard charcoal is lighter, while soft charcoal is darker and can be smudged easily. As they are difficult to sharpen, use a knife to keep them in a good shape.

One can use graphite pencils on any type or size of paper, while the charcoal looks good on large-format either white or toned paper.

What are the benefits of using either of these types of media? Graphite pencils are cheap and readily available no matter if you are at home, in your studio or in a rain forest, for making sketches at the planning stage or for illustrating and refining later works. Charcoal is a fabulous choice for drawing a live model. The lines are strong and bold and can create a strong illusion of form and volume.

* Knowledge in this post is available due to the book Fashion Illustration School, a complete handbook for aspiring designers and illustrators, by Carol A Nunnelly.

By Catalina Rusu

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