Week 6 - Introduction to Illustrator

We finally come to an end to photoshop lesson. Moving on with today lesson, we will be learning a new software known as Illustrator. As a fashion student, illustrator is important to us as we need it t draw our garment technical drawing. Most of the tools are similar to photoshop but it is more complicated as it does have the same function. 

For the first exercise, we explore the different type of tools and get a brief idea on how illustrator works. Here are some of the exercises that we did in class.

As for this exercise, we use different type of selection to create different shapes

As for this exercise, we practice drawing the shapes using the pen tools. 

After we get the hang of this, we move on with technical drawing of the jacket. Drawing the lines of the jacket using the pen tools was easy. What makes it more difficult is when we have to flip the one side of the drawings to complete the whole jacket. I was having a hard time to catch up with the lesson as i could not get the lines right. After a few try, finally i  understand how does the thing works. Overall, it was easy to draw the technical drawing by having a template underneath. 

Not only that, we also learnt how to do fabric board. It is much more easier than drawing technical drawings. Fabrics board s similar to mood board and it have less thing going on. I did 2 fabric board for a practice.