FASHION ILLUSTRATION WEDNESDAY: INSPIRED BY VIX

 Hello and welcome to another fashion illustration post. This fashion illustration was inspired by a fellow blogger Vix from blog Vintage Vixen. As you might know, sometimes I illustrate bloggers for my 'Inspired by' posts. I've been doing it for years. This is not my first time illustrating Vix either. In fact, while browsing my laptop's arhive today, I'd come to realize that I have illustrated Vix four times before, so this was my fifth illustration. 

 As a reference I used a photograph of a beautiful vintage outfit posted on Vix's blog (this post). The illustrated outfit consists of a gorgeous  maxi velvet dress from the sixties paired with a Nigel Rayment hat and some lovely accessories. I've always loved the combination of blue and green colour palettes. The medium for this illustration is watercolour pencils on paper. That's the medium I've been working with most often lately (as you might have noticed). The illustration style I opted the elongated figure that is often  used in fashion illustrating (so called fashion figure). 

HR Pozdrav i dobrodošli u još jednu objavu posvećenu modnim ilustracijama. Ovu modnu ilustraciju inspirirala je kolegica blogerica Vix s bloga Vintage Vixen (poveznica u engleskom dijelu teksta). Kao što možda znate, ponekad ilustriram blogere za svoje objave 'Inspired by/Nadahnuta s'. Radim to već godinama. Ni ovo mi nije prvi put da ilustriram Vix. Zapravo, dok sam danas pregledavala arhivu na laptopu, shvatio sam da sam Vix ilustrirala već četiri puta, tako da mi je ovo bila njena peta ilustracija.

 Kao referencu koristila sam fotografiju prelijepe vintage odjevne kombinacije koju je Vix nosila (objavljena na njezinom blogu - vidi ovaj post). Ilustrirana odjevna kombinacija sastoji se od prekrasne maxi baršunaste haljine iz šezdesetih u kombinaciji s šeširom Nigel Rayment i nekim lijepim modnim dodacima. Uvijek sam voljela kombinaciju plavih i zelenih nijansi. Medij za ovu ilustraciju su akvarel olovke na papiru. To je medij s kojim u posljednje vrijeme najčešće radim (kao što ste mogli primijetiti). Za stil ilustracije odabrala sam izduženu figuru koja se često koristi u modnom ilustriranju (tzv. modna figura).

THE MAKING OF A FASHION ILLUSTRATION

I don't have a lot of experience illustrating velvet so this was a nice practice for me. Bellow you can see the 'making of this velvet fashion illustration'. I used a lighter green pencil for places where the velvet caught light. Velvet always appears lighter when on the places where it catches the light.  Another thing I tried to capture on this dress were the flower applications. They are cute, aren't they?  The flowers are very sixties chic.  If I have had the time to create a more detailed illustration, perhaps I would have tried capturing all the rings and bracelets, this way I only hinted at the two rings. On the other hand, there was one accessory that I simply had to capture- and that was the hat.  Illustrating this hat was fun, it's a lovely piece. 

Nemam puno iskustva s ilustriranjem baršuna pa mi je ovo bila lijepa praksa. U nastavku možete vidjeti izradu ove modne ilustracije. Koristila sam svjetliju zelenu olovku za mjesta gdje je baršun hvatao svjetlost. Baršun uvijek djeluje svjetliji na mjestima gdje hvata svjetlo. Još jedna stvar koju sam pokušala uhvatiti na ovoj haljini bile su aplikacije cvijeća. Slatke su, zar ne? Cvijeće je vrlo u stilu šezdesetih. Da sam imala vremena napraviti detaljniju ilustraciju, možda bih pokušala uhvatiti sve prstenje i narukvice, ali sam samo nagovijestila dva prstena. S druge strane, bio je jedan modni dodatak koji sam jednostavno morala uhvatiti,  a to je bio šešir. Ilustrirati ovaj šešir je bilo zabavno, to je divan komad.

I cannot tell for sure whether the referenced dress is more sacramento green or dark pine green, but either way I don't think I captured the exact shade. I cannot really mix the colours that much when I'm working with a limited set of watercolour pencils. I did use a darker watercolour pencils to try to capture the dark green velvet of this dress.  My illustrated dress came out a bit lighter then the one in the reference photograph, but I didn't feel like altering the original illustration with editing. I've created some collages for fun, but that was the only editing I did. I also made sure to capture this illustration under sunlight. What you can see bellow is an unedited photograph  of this illustration taken under natural light. Being under direct sunlight means that the colours on this illustration are a bit different (i.e. lighter) than if I took this photograph in the shade, so keep that in mind. I typically try to take photographs both under direct and in the shade to give you a better idea of the illustration. 

HR Ne mogu sa sigurnošću reći je li spomenuta haljina veoma tamno zelena ili više zelena u nijansi borova, ali u svakom slučaju mislim da nisam uhvatila točnu nijansu. Ne mogu baš toliko miješati boje kada radim s ograničenim setom akvarel bojica. Iskoristila sam tamnije akvarel bojice da bih pokušala uhvatiti tamnozeleni baršun ove haljine. Moja ilustrirana haljina ispala je malo svjetlija od one na referentnoj fotografiji, ali nisam htjela mijenjati originalnu ilustraciju uređivanjem. Napravila sam neke kolaže iz zabave, ali to je bilo jedino uređivanje koje napravih. Također sam se pobrinula da ovu ilustraciju uslikam pod sunčevom svjetlošću. Ono što možete vidjeti u nastavku je neobrađena fotografija ove ilustracije snimljena pod prirodnim svjetlom. To što su pod izravnim sunčevim svjetlom znači da su boje na ovoj ilustraciji malo drugačije (tj. svjetlije) nego da sam ovu fotografiju uslikala u sjeni, pa imajte to na umu. Obično pokušavam fotografirati i pod izravnim i u sjeni kako bih vam dala bolju predodžbu o ilustraciji.

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT VELVET:

Velvet, in textiles, fabric having a short, dense pile, used in clothing and upholstery. The term derives from the Middle French velu, “shaggy.” Velvet is made in the pile weave, of silk, cotton, or synthetic fibres, and is characterized by a soft, downy surface formed by clipped yarns. The wrong side of the fabric is smooth and shows the weave employed. * https://www.britannica.com/topic/velvet-fabric

VELVET, a silken textile fabric having a short dense piled surface. In all probability the art of velvet-weaving originated in the Far East; and it is not till about the beginning of the 14th century that we find any mention of the textile. The peculiar properties of velvet, the splendid yet softened depth of dye-colour it exhibited, at once marked it out as a fit material for ecclesiastical vestments, royal and state robes, and sumptuous hangings; and the most magnificent textures of medieval times were Italian velvets. These were in many ways most effectively treated for ornamentation, such as by varying the colour of the pile, by producing pile of different lengths (pile upon pile, or double pile), and by brocading with plain silk, with uncut pile or with a ground of gold tissue, &c. The earliest sources of European artistic velvets were Catanzaro,^[4][5] Lucca, Genoa, Florence, and Venice, which continued to send out rich velvet textures. Somewhat later the art was taken up by Flemish weavers, and in the sixteenth century, Bruges attained a reputation for velvets that were not inferior to those of the great Italian cities.* wikipedia

ZA ONE KOJI ŽELE ZNATI VIŠE O BARŠUNU:

baršun (madž. barsóny; njem. Samt, franc. velours, engl. velvet, tur. kadifa), opći naziv za tkanine koje su s naličja glatke, a s lica pokrivene uzdignutim nitima što tvore dlakav, svilenkast sloj ugodna dodira s kožom (tzv. flor). Izrađuje se od raznih vrsta vlakana – pamuka, svile, kemijskih celuloznih i sintetskih vlakana (vlasastih i filamentnih). Na tržište dolazi jednobojan, šareno tkan i tiskan. Upotrebljava se za raznovrsnu odjeću te za dekorativne svrhe i u tapetarstvu.* 

* Hrvatska enciklopedija, mrežno izdanje. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 2021. Pristupljeno 23. 2. 2022. <http://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=6057>.

MY LAST FASHION ILLUSTRATION POST- FASHION ILLUSTRATION TUESDAY: ELISABETTA FRANCHI SPRING SUMMER 2022

MORE INSPIRED BY POSTS- Let's have a look at the my previous INSPIRED BY POSTS, shall we?

INSPIRED BY SHANAZ & MARISA (MIXED MEDIA)

INSPIRED BY MICA, SHEILA AND BLAIR (COLOURED PENCILS)

INSPIRED BY VIX, LOVELY AND AKIKO (WATERCOLOUR PENCILS)

INSPIRED BY AKIKO, LOVELY AND VIX (COLOURED PENCILS) 

INSPIRED BY ANN AND SHEILA (COLOURED PENCILS)

.......AND: 

INSPIRED BY VIX (COLOURED PENCILS)

INSPIRED BY SHANAZ AND MARISA (2020)

INSPIRED BY FASHION BLOGGERS 2016

INSPIRED BY SELVAGGIA AND PAOLA 2019

INSPIRED BY MELODY JACOBS 2018

INSPIRED BY NATALIA  2018

INSPIRED BY JODIE'S TOUCH OF STYLE 2018

INSPIRED BY JESSICA 2018

INSPIRED BY TIJANA 2018

INSPIRED BY 2017 EDITION 

INSPIRED BY 2016 EDITION

INSPIRED BY 2015 EDITION

INSPIRED BY...SEVEN FASHION BLOGGERS 2014 EDITION

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