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22) Computer-Aided CAD Fashion Illustration

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About this class

Create computer generated professional Fashion Illustration. As a prerequisite to taking this class, participants should be conversant with the use of a computer. Prior basic knowledge of Adobe Illustrator will be advantageous but is not essential.

This course demonstrates proficient use of Adobe Illustrator software to create fashion illustrations, representing fabric prints and garment details, combined with a brief introduction on Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. Students will also be introduced to learn how to translate designers’ sketches into technical flats for those professionals in the fashion design industry. It includes a short tutorial to making a portfolio for preparing fashion illustrations and technical flats.

Class Outline

1.  Tools, Menus and Palettes

2.   Project 1

3.  Fashion Flats    

4.  Project 2

5. Trims, Fabric Patterns & Texture

6.  Scanning Images 

7.  Making a portfolio

8. Final Project

Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

Participants are required to buy their own materials beforehand and bring them to every class

  • 1 A3 sketch pad for rough sketching and writing notes
  • 2B and 4B
  • 1 eraser 
  • 1 pencil sharpener

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:
  • Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
  • Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
  • Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
  • Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
  • Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Sun, 1 Feb, 2015
End: Sun, 5 Apr, 2015
Lessons: 8, no classes on March 1st and 8th
Days: Sundays
Time: 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm
Location: VCUQatar, Room 165
Cost: QAR 850 / US$ 233.50

Instructors

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Yang Soon Ju

Yang Soon Ju (Elizabeth) is an interdisciplinary designer and entrepreneur with an MFA in Design Studies and a BFA in Fashion Design from VCUarts Qatar.
She has engaged with numerous projects/events and developed designs/collections in partnership with community organizations: to name a few, Doha Film Institute, Tim MakowerArchitects, Sidra Medicine/Hospital, Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition, Doha Festival City, and Galeries Lafayette and Tasmeem Biennial Art and Design Conference. Her entrepreneurial positions in Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Qatar span two decades, ranging from founding an English-speaking school; textile trading, and designing/producing household items and specialty clothing, as well as marketing those products, to consulting in financial auditing/ bookkeeping and business management. In addition to her entrepreneurial initiatives, she currently teaches in the Fashion Design department and Continuing Education and Community/Continuing education programs at VCUarts Qatar.

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