DDS

New layers - pants and shorts, one with rulers and guides - view --> ruler -->view rulers. Put in new guides at waist, bust CF and CB.

Always start at CF - we are only drawing half of the short.

Use pen tool - a few pointers - when the green line is showing, that means that you are in line with the previous point. This means you can make the lines perfectly straight!

Don't put the CF point straight on the CF line - a little to the side.

Remember - DDS is just a series of shapes, overlapping. We create the main silhouette first, the half of the DDS needs to be copied and flipped.

Object -->transform -->reflect - default is exactly what we need! Press copy (not ok) and drag it to where we want it.

To join crotch area - use shift to select both of these points at the crotch - right click and choose join.

Make sure every layer other than the shorts and pants layer is locked.

To fill - unselect the little red line across the fill button, make sure that the area is selected and choose a colour - I went with white.

Ewww.

Next - waistband. We need to draw another shape.

Make sure you lock the pants - object to lock to selection.

Now - pen tool to draw the waistband - just straight on the top, follow shapes.

Draw CF seam - problem, can't go through waistband. Right click on Waistband - arrange, bring to front.

Object - unlock all - then we can move the pants where we want.

To draw stitch lines - go to stroke - go to pen tool. For hem, draw one line the height you want it at. Check Dashed line box on stroke area.

And ta-da! Stitching lines. So damn easy. Can define how big we want the dash.

Make sure we do the cap thing - little button under the stroke size.

Back is just copied and pasted with front detail deleted.

Need to draw drawstring. Pen tool and so forth. Do a circle with a squiggly line over it, for the knot.

To select and move an entire segment, black arrow, select the segment.

To alter lines after this, double click into this and then change using white arrow.

To group things (layer within a layer) right click and select group.

To copy and paste - select line of stitching, alt shift and drag. Shift makes this come down directly.

Extend ends using white arrow.

Just attach this to the pants.

For homework - front and back done of shorts - short cut - group segments of the lines and group them, then copy and paste.

Also - pair of pants.

2 pt for outline, 1 pt for inside.

Assessment one

Starts today - similar to DDS folder - something done in class, something done for homework.

Combine this and create an A4 reference folder - presented in a professional way.

One A4 folder and a CD.

This has to be easy to understand! Each title written, week.

Folder in one orientation - e.g. all portrait. Make it easy for the person who is reading this.

Work done in class, physical garment taken in by Lea.

For homework - take photos of garment front and back, has to be actually showing the garment, no pixels, no blurry photos. Correspond with what you draw!

Always label front back side and specific areas that need to be pointed out, eg zoom.

Need a black and white sketch and a coloured sketch - no zoom on coloured.

Quality and accuracy is the aim, proportion etc.

Digital DDS library disc - has digital sketch library

- digital sketch reference library

- Brush library

- Symbol library

- Swatch library

- 1 combined PDF file of all of your DDS folder.

These need to be filed nicely.

Week 2 - 2 DDS drawings - the shorts and a pair of pants of your own choice.

These don't have to be printed at a printer, just at home is fine.

Remember - you can always fix up your earlier drawings later in the term.

Last week - to close the pen tool, click on black arrow and click outside - simple.

Let's make another date real soon.

Outline

Remember - ask Lea about how to use the pen tool to do a segment without closing off the path - as in, an unclosed section. Is there a button to press that closes the path?

Illustrator vs photoshop

Illustrator is vector - does not use pixels. Pretty difficult to make Illustrator pixellated.

Vector - not made of lots of little dots as in photoshop. Vector is more mathematical - all just lines - can be very small or very big. Flat, clean print.

Don't do text in photoshop, artwork in photoshop then moved to illustrator.

Illustrator is set up to be the same set up as photoshop.

Add colours to layers to make sorting easier - double click on layer and set colour. New layer? Click on top right bit and hold down.

For squares, use rectangle tool, hold down shift to keep in proportion.

Zoom out as much as you want - all this is useable - you simply select the area you want to use.

Use black arrow tool to transform - don't have to do edit/transform.

Little white and black squares - the black background one does an outline - you can change the colour. If you want to get rid of the outline just hit the button with the red stroke.

Eye turns layers off and on - can lock layer now as it is finished.

Create new layer - template.

3 ways to get template into file - for now open with illustrator - it's now a new document, can be moved around with the lovely little black arrow.

Don't have to worry about which layer you are on to select - will always grab the one you are aiming for. Hooray!

apple C and apple v to put into the DDS library.

Put template layer under grey layer.

Go back to background layer, unlock, down opacity until you can just see template. Lock template and coloured background layer. Turn little eye off on template.

Add new layer, label class work.

Go to pen tool. Click down - options! When you are about to start, there is an x - meaning it is ready to go. Start to notice symbols that go with pen tool.

Open window called stroke - 2 pt is standard outline stroke. Details smaller. Change weight.

The colour you selected for the layer is the colour your dot will be. Make a line. Add a curve in in the usual photoshop manner. Fill colours will appear between your dots - that's why the background is grey, to remind us that the lines have a colour and have to be joined properly to fill in neatly. Fills automatically. Illustrator does not need alt key to delete. Hover pen tool over anchor - use this to deselect bottom handle bar. Simply click on anchor point and handle bar disappears!!!! There is now no direction.

Hover over point you started at - this shows a circle symbol - this is asking you if you are finished. Click on this and the shape will be closed. From here there will be the little x to show that the pen tool is ready again.

If you want to leave a shape - little black arrow, click out.

To go back in - get pen tool, hover over where you left there will be a slash (/) symbol, asking if you are wanting to restart there.

To move handlebars - use black arrow, white arrow. Play with this to get your shapes.

If you only want to alter one curve - press alt - you are only using the one handlebar, thus altering one curve.

Hover pen tool over part of line - plus symbol - add something?

If for some reason it isn't giving you the plus sign, clicking on pen tool gives you all those options. This selects a tool that just does that.

White arrow selects last part of line, select and press delete.

HOMEWORK - red as outline colour, click on template, trace template with pen tool. Turn fill colour OFF, jus want red outline. At the end we can fill, but for now it's better to leave it off. There is no history, just use apple z.

First day back

Digital DDS - same rules as illustration DDS apply, send to pattern maker, has to be accurate.

Include description, closures, seams, top stitching - basically to show how everything works.

Divide long centre lines - start at waist band - use template... etc.

The only difference being that these DDS drawings can be coloured in, can put prints on.

These are exact copies, fabric etc.

Ways to use DDS - how it is used in the industry.

Presentation sheets - basic design, digital DDS and hand drawn. Digital used to show colour, patterns and proportions.

Range board and range sheets - gives an idea how the entire range fits together. Can be used in presentations to the client. Technical information.

Look book - books for designers selling to buyers - fashion picture with basic DDS next to it.

Spec sheet - plain, black and white, technical. Very detailed, accurate, non stylised. Sent to factory to give specifications. DDS then lots of information - instructions for the maker. Sizes, buttons etc. Used by everyone in the company - production, designer, pattern maker, digital designer, reference. So it has to be accurate.

Costing sheet - goes with spec sheet - everything must be here, thread, cost of fabric, cost of fusing - everything. Everything that goes under garment. How long it takes to make, all costs together - triple cost. Generally has an image on it just to make everything clear. Cost sheets are very private.

Trend prediction books - more stylised DDS, put in presentations. Basic indication of silhouette, style, feel of the season's garments. Sometimes used on websites.

Merchandising plans - gives an idea of how the shop will look.

Commercial patterns - also used on pattern instructions.

The sea of love.