Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011 - Version 2.0

Good Morning Friends!
Sorry for the 5-6 day absence. I decided since I passed up my 600th blog post a few weeks ago, that I should give Igor+André a facelift. So that's what I've been doing over the last few weeks, and yikes, it was a learning experience. I didn't know much about web design/coding in blogspot format so I had a crash course in it. So what do you think of the new look? I really like how it turned out. I'm not sure about you, but looking through the site and the different categories is like rediscovering the content. For some reason I feel like the scroll through experience is light years better now. But I would love to hear your thoughts :)

I thought I would post the original Color version of my Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011 painting. I posted a Black & White Version of the picture a few weeks ago, but i really like the color version too, so voila! Here it is. ;) I hope you like it, and hope you're having an amazing day!

Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011

Well I'm not sure if you all have been following the Couture shows going on right now,
But a few days ago i was looking through the pictures of the amazing Christian Dior Haute Couture show,
and there was this one specific garment that I had to paint the second i saw it.
I really like how the painting turned out.
It's one of my biggest dreams to be invited to a couture show and getting to paint the collection!
That would be so insane... but until then i made this ; )
What do you think? Inhope you like it!

Happy Christian Dior Monday

Good morning, my friends!!
Shoot, this was a really fun weekend,
and now, on this Monday morning, I'm in need of some coffee!
My friends from the Band Eisley were in town this weekend,
which made for a great time.
They were touring with the band "Say Anything".
Saturday night, they performed at the House of Blues in San Diego,
and while we were in San Diego,
we ended up meeting up with Rumi (Fashiontoast) & her boy friend Colin for dinner.
It was great seeing them and catching up with them.
Last time my brother and I had hung out with them was in New York for Fashion Week.
Later that night, the whole Eisley crew came back to my house to crash.
Then yesterday, we were off to The Troubadour in Hollywood for their last concert of the tour.
It was really a good time catching up.
Forgive me for my posting absence last night!
This is why there wasn't one...

So i thought... why not make this morning a Merry Christian Dior Monday Morning! :)
This is painting 1 out of the 5 paintings of Paris Fashion Week i did for Sundance Channel's Full Fontal Fashion.
I hope you like it! and i hope your Monday is a good one...
now i need to go make some coffee! hah

the Count Down

Happy Sunday night!
Well my friends, was it just me or did this weekend crank like lightning?
For some reason, i was in a clothes designing mood all weekend,
so needless to say, i have croquis scattered all over the room.
The next few days are going to be hectic.
It's the few day count down,
cause I'm flying out to Texas Wednesday!
It's going to be really fun.
I just have a lot to figure out in the next few days.

The Drawing today is of Lily Cole From my Character Sketchbook.
I hope you like it! :)

Animation Test Movie

Dior Test Animation

Good morning! Good morning!
It's all nice and cold right now, and i'm sipping on coffee!
Woot woo! Feels pretty good. ;)
Ok,so i reanimated this scene from my test animation.
Here it is! Sorry there isn't more; i haven't had any time,
but my goal is to finish it this summer.
The music is something i wrote a little while back for this story.
i hope it works out for the full animation, but not sure...
Hope you're all doing great!

P.S. Thanks for sending me the pictures of you all wearing the shirts. It's been so fun seeing you all wearing the shirts from all over.
Keep them coming! :)

Laying Down in Dior

Wow!
Today made my head hurt so bad!
Made a lot of changes to the site.
Still not done working out all the bugs,
but i hope you all like it.
Today is my Brother's Birthday!
My mom made the world's Best Brownies!
Well i'm really tired, but i hope you all are doing great!
:)

Adventures of John Galliano

Hello Friends!
How are you?
i'm excited, my mom bought Sabrina and i'm going to watch it tomorrow!
Thanks for all the movie suggestions.
This movie is a rough test animation,
i wanted to give you a little sneak peak. This is just the first scene sequence.
Not sure when i will finish it, but i hope to soon in the near future.
i hope you like it.

Anticipation...

So today marks the last day of the Iqons/Dior competition. it's the following: Dior has partnered with IQONS to extend an open call to emerging photographers, illustrators and artists in the US and Canada. Dior will select one person to donate a print or piece of art that exemplifies diva style. so i entered my dior drawing in the competition... and Friday is the day they select the winner.... so who knows. i thought it was worth a shot. so needless to say i'm praying! haha.
yep good night to all, i'm off to dreamland.

p.s. aren't dreams the best? i do most my concepting in my dreams. i keep it in this dream log. i'll have to post of of them theses days.

Moving & Shaking.

wow, well i just was sitting at my desk working and got hit by an earthquake. It was kinda fun, i haven't felt one in so so so so long. The only thing i was scared about is all my art falling of the wall, but made it through so far and all are still on the walls! wooo-yoooo.

Also today i was cleaning out my hard drive, and i found two projects i never finished.... they where two animations. I really hope to have enough time to make them. the first one was a video i was making to an eisley song, about 3 years ago. it's really raw if i end up doing it i would want to start over on it.



This second animation is one i was going to do of a Christian Dior Collection. I wrote a song for it, and it was about a girl asleep in the forest, when a mysterious man in the forest (I was going to draw John Galliano as a Clocked man), anyways he makes the forest come alive and it dresses her in her sleep.... yea i really want to finish it, but never there isn't enough time in the day.

For Thoses Who Like This Kind of Stuff.

I don't know if this kind of stuff interested yawl, but i know for myself i always loved to learn techniques and methods, and still do. Also i'm a wrestling coach so i find in everything, i love to teach, so i wanted to do a post breakdown of how i work on creating a picture. i hope this isn't too boring. ;)

The illustration I'm going to break down is the one i did of Christian Dior Collection.this process is the same method i used on the chanel glasses one. I start out with the poses and composition first, like below.
(Also, there are times where i start with the clothes first, and then develop the pose around it like in the AAU lookbook i did last year.)

Note: i draw them with nothing on but a grid suite. this is so i can know where the body is at and then build the garment off of that.
With this drawing i actually liked the arrangement of the figures so much i put it away for 6 months, and i didn't want to use it till there was the perfect collection for it. Then last year i was putting together my Fashion illustration portfolio, and Christian Dior's Fall 2007 Couture collection came out. It felt like the perfect fit for the poses. So the next part of the process is to pick out the outfits and assign them to a pose. so i just went on to style.com and looked through the runway pictures to get a garment reference and then a details reference. Once that is down what i like to do is do my own "Casting Call". haha. i try to assign each pose a model. so i just try to find references of models who have the right looks that complement the way i draw and also fit the picture. It is a fun little change, to try build a picture that doesn't exist.

For this outfit/pose i picked Gemma Ward. i thought that the pose just felt like a good pose for her.


For this outfit/pose i picked Lily Cole


For this outfit/pose i picked Cintia Dicker. I wanted her and lily to be diagonal from each other so there would be a nice balance with the touches of red...


For this outfit/pose i picked Jessica Stam. there was this picture of her which just felt like the perfect profile for it.




and for this last one outfit/pose i picked Ali Michael. She has a a really calm subdued look to her.

After i redraft those, i have the pre Final Draft.

i get that image sized up to the size it will be for the final version. For this picture i sized it to 40" by 30".
and then i will copy it on to the final paper and go for it.

welp that's it. hope you liked it.
:)

The Two Versions of Dior.

About a year ago I drew a thumbnail sketch of 5 girls laying on their backs.
The concept for the picture was that I wanted it to have dynamic composition and be interesting from every angle.
Once I finished the thumbnail, I set it aside for another time. Then a few months ago, I decided to illustrate Christian Dior's couture collection, and that thumbnail sketch was the perfect framework for the clothes. For three days straight I worked on the picture. It was 30" X 40" on illustration board. I used brushed ink and ink pens. I know I have already posted this picture in my Fashion Book, but I actually have 2 versions of this illustration. The original version is almost completely black and white, and the final is colored digitally. I actually mailed the original to Paris to The House of Dior two days after I finished. Still haven't heard anything back from them... maybe someday. haha



Original Version





Digital Color Version

Fashion Art Book

Here are some Paintings out of my Fashion Art book. Oh yeah, I'm also new to this blog stuff, so some of the images are cropped and and they shouldn't be.... not sure why.