Nadia Flower

   

 Nadia flower is very similar to Kelly Smith with her use of flowers, feathers, and animals in order to add a very natural, rural feel to her illustrations. she also uses a limited colour palette only using pastel colours to further emphasise the rural almost tribal look.
I really love her illustrations however I don't think my CAD skills are quite up to the standard where I could achieve an image like this .
I believe Nadia flower makes her illustrations by using CAD and by hand as well (pencils and watercolours), some of her work is more CAD based which I don't like as much I like the soft look in these images where both techniques are used.

Mark making

Mark Making Sheet

I created this mark making sheet using acrylic paint, ink, chalk and charcoal along with a few other types of media. I layered different bits of my mark making on top and next to each other in a geometric pattern to carry my theme of Bauhaus. Once I had completed this mark making sheet I took a photo of it and then uploaded it on pot the computer to use and experiment with in photoshop. I started this by making the image true black and white as the photo was more grey, I did this by playing with the brightness/contrast until it looked correct.

Design/Illustration Using CAD

I put the skills and techniques that I learnt about in my last CAD session into practice when making this design, like the post before I took an image from Google and used it for the over-wrap of the bodice and the skirt. this is the style of geometric print I would like to use for my final fabric when I come to screen print it.
Again I really enjoyed using CAD (Photoshop) for this design and found it very easy to use.

Photoshop

  Using Photoshop along with a template I learnt how to fill in certain sections using the 'quick selection' tool and then filling it with my chosen colour. we then went on to get an image of a pattern we liked off Google which we I then used as the material for the skirt.
I found this method of creating CAD illustrations/ coloured designs quite simple and therefore also rather easy and so I will definitely go on to use this technique in the near future.

Design + Illustration

 In order for my design to represent Bauhaus (given art movement) my dress will have 4 circular cut outs down the skirt on one side. My dress will also have a faux wrap bodice and have a geometric print all over apart from the under wrap to further reflect the Bauhaus style.
I used the scanner in order to get my black line design into the computer, I found it a little difficult at first to use however I soon got the hang of it and I now believe I could use the scanner again on my own with no trouble.

.PRINT PROJECT CAD.

.PRINT PROJECT CAD.

.The purpose of this blog is for my college work using CAD.