Re write of Briefs!!

Drop dead clothing

Brief-

We want you to design at least 7 computer based design drawings to be submitted and evaluated. We would like mock ups of the 5 best items of clothing and other colours, layouts or filters proposed.

The audience -

For males and females 16-25. The range is to be sold online and at the new flag ship store featured on Londons Brick lane.

The problem-

Our drop dead designer has sadly left our company and we need a replacement who can carry out his job following the requirements - refer to his work on www.iheartdropdead.com

The requirements -

The T shirts imagery must link in with quotes taken from the new album of the founders BMTH 'there is a hell believe me i've seen it' we would like each illustration to be different and mimic that of our range featured online (reference above)

(We want you to complete these image based drawings by familiarising yourself using the Wacom tablet and using adobe illustrator for appearance purposes)

Deliverables -

At least one mocked up item of clothing with a proposed Wacom illustration (physical)

All the other proposed clothes mocked up online and in print

Printed posters of selected designs

Distributed digitally (background layouts, website, posters, promotion)

Packaging

What will you get out of it?

The aim of this brief is to learn how to use the Wacom tablet and experiment with different methods of printing experimentation

Front (CHANGED)

Brief-

We would like to launch a campaign called 'DEAD FAMOUS' in which we would like you to produce halloween decorations for front magazines halloween party.

The audience -

For males and females aged 18-1000BC for Front and friends.

The problem-

We need you to design zombie versions of popular famous people who have passed on. We need these illustrations then incorporated in decorating our party.

The requirements -

The imagery needs to feature famous dead people as it is their one night a year to come back and party with front.

Deliverables -

Plates, glasses for guests featuring a twist

Hall of frames - each celeb mocked up in a photo frame in the front hallway.

Promotional invite to the front party

Big poster to be sold with the Halloween edition of front magazine

Other decorations that will create a twist

What will you get out of it?

An extension of promotional abilities to contribute to putting my work in other contexts

T shirt printing

In the process of producing my heat transfer prints a few things went wrong and created some learning curves to take into further consideration when in this process.

-100% cotton does not take the colour transfer to its full potential and therefore the outcomes are faded instead many man made materials are better Polyester is one of these

- Colours of material is limited to light colours, the darker the shirt the less that will be seen

-When using the heat press first thing in the morning or that day be cautious of what else will be transferred onto the pale tops i.e. two new t-shirts just had a yellow colour printed onto them from material transfer from other students that settled over night and now need washing as they appear to have tea poured down them.

-If you want a bright print, get it done professionally for quality reasons, it would be more expensive but worth the process

Women and hoods

Within the context I chose to take a look at female ranges of clothing, these items are skinnier in a way and need to have the image fitted in a way which compliments them as well as the design.

Green looks really cool as a background colour, it is vibrant stands out and creates a wealthy attention.

Pink in my opinion doesn't look like it is settled quite right.

I then thought about cold weather wear such as hooded sweatshirts.

The designs would be on the back as there is more room and would be big

I think that a lot of these look really cool and fits well around the frame

The red is cool but the layout could be missing something so I began to experiment

White looks amazing in my opinion

This is to stretched out and it looks a bit odd

Red and blue are a clash but this item could get away with it.

Grey is suited so much better for women's wear

subliminal looks really cool as well

I found that that the designs really complimented some of the fashion wear used today

I strongly agree that these could be seen out on the market and in retail

providing the image layout fits well

The issue with this is that the design is so wide it wouldn't go bigger to fit the Tank tops limits for print.

Mock ups of my designs in context

For my final outcomes I mocked up the t-shirt layouts and possible colour solutions.

The box in the middle is where I was told it is possible to print.

I found that certain colours really complimented the images were as others

really took away and made to much of a clash.

This image looks awful, it looks like the image has just been stuck on.

I think the problem is that the print cannot be placed down at the bottom so the cut off looks really weird.

Yet again on the right colour the t shirt looked great.

I think the dark colours should be avoided with this design in majority.

This is a concept of other things that can be done with the octo design but I want it to be on a tank top

and have it wrap around like this:

This image is plain and simple, it doesn't look very interesting so I think colour would be necessary for this image in particular.

I find that blue makes it look to much like a superman t shirt.

as with red it blends in to much on one side.

same with orange, it just looks odd, but in reality it should work as it is the inbwtween colour of both sides of vader christ.

Black works really well and would be the T shirt colour for this one.

I found that this image works un believably well with with a variation of different coloured t shirts and layouts.

Black and white looked amazing as a contrasting pair

stretching the image made it seem to boxed in.

But with the right positioning it even worked out to look quite well.

The grey worked so well with the illustration as it ties in with the background and images context

Red strangely worked well also.

as with other un common colours in fashion they brought out different elements when focused on the imagery.

Within this I found that it was more of a task making it look bad rather than good.

I am very happy with the selection, I am going to mock up a few more ideas ranging in some female designs as drop dead isn't just for boys

Autograph?

I had a interesting idea when it came to type and the characters name, I thought it would be a lot more personal if I got the signature of each of the ten and labeled them next to the illustrations. The only issue was legibility and the factor that every image of the signatures are a bad quality, I traced over the marks made by each of the legends and put it into experimentation.

To get a feel for all of the illustrations to work as a set I put them together with their signatures underneath as a JPEG so the quality is not lost.

Final piece

For all the right reasons M.J was the final person I had left to draw I chose him as a younger artist with some of his breath taking solo work, It was deemed appropriate to choose the thriller outfit for the theme of the magazines DPS.

I put the first foundation of detail on, my aim for this illustration was to make it cleaner than the others.

And in all honesty I believe I achieved it, this has to be one of the neatest drawings I have done in regards to the number of anchor points.

I also noticed I hadn't given many of my zombies a dark green look, so that was what I did with this one and I think that it looks fantastic and the minimalist approach with the blood suits the illustration quite well.

Shake it

With this design I wasn't sure what to do with such an open space, the outline worried me slightly as it was pretty vague but as I built up the layers a form of reassurance comforted me.

There are a few key areas which seemed a bit off such as his bald patch eyes and facial hair.

As I got further with the design it all came together, there are a few things I may alter with this illustration within the facial hair department other than that I am quite happy with shakespeare's out come.

Mac book stickers

Beginning of something beautiful and will soon to be a overlay portfolio of my work on my laptop