my illustration.

This is one of my illustration boards for a college brief. The market level for this board is FAD, I wanted to keep it very basic and use limited media and technique as I feel its the only way I can make it look FAD based.

I began by drawing out the face and facial features. I had previously made a board where I created these strange faced people. I took ordinary facial features and made them more defined and use bold lines, I wanted to develop this illustration style I had started to see if I could adapt it to different styles. Also I picked one of my designs from a collection I'm going to create to feature on my illustration board. I kept the basic shape of the garment the long neck feature and 3D arms.

 Next i added more detailing to the face, such as eyebrows, eye lashes and beauty spot. Also adding the hair to my illustration with a ruler to make the lines perfectly straight.

Then i used fine liner to go over the pencil markings when i was happy with the illustration. I added a spot of colour to the eyes making them a light blue crayon and lips with a red felt tip. I didn't want the colours to be a block of colour or to be to bold.

Using black ink I made a line alone the edge of the arms and used a paint brush dipped in water to make the colour run and give the effect of it fading lighter to the bottom.

Adding blue ribbon down the side for some texture and also wired bows on the other side for small detailing.

I then added lyrics onto the ribbon which said 'you keep the sunshine'. Also I added flower stickers to the background as i felt it was to pain and looked unfinished.

I am very glad with the outcome and feel that less is more with my FAD board. I plan on using lyrics on all my board to keep a running theme that makes my work recognisable also as music is such a good link with fashion and represents my personality too. I am starting to feel that finally I have my own style and now I want to experiment and make it stronger.