Production: Portfolio-making

At the end of week 8, I finally got the chance to start making my portfolio pages. Here is how my concept page looks like at the moment. I plan to add more decorative details that also present Indonesian elements, perhaps showing more on the textile print or the silhouette that inspired the collection. 

I also started illustrating my collection-line up pages, starting with the children costume designs. Instead of drawing in a simple pose croquis, I decided to draw the character with movement/pose and personality. 

After finishing all 5 design illustration, I then combine it al into one page. However it doesn't turned out the way I imagined it, the different poses make the collection overview page look messy and unprofessional (see image below). Therefore to have a consistent design, I made another 5 illustration on straight croquis. 

 After finishing all the design illustration, I continued making the technical drawings in Adobe Illustrator. Despite it was my second time making the technical drawing in illustrator, I still found it difficult to memorize the shortcut keys. This process took me the longest to finish. But I was glad that the technical drawing was not as flat and sketchy as I thought it would be. 

Now moving on to designing the portfolio pages. I primarily use procreate to design the pages. Starting with the collection design page, I inserted all the illustration including technical drawing and fabric sample. I was thinking of adding environment or landscape in the background just behind the illustration. I used a vintage-filtered illustration of a temple then erased vaguely all the edges to get rid of the square shape. 

I'm still not sure if I was going to use that design, so I tried another layout with a simple rectangle contrast colored background that should make the design pop out even more. 

I thought that the colored rectangle was too plain, so I added a batik pattern with similar color and lower the opacity to make it less obvious. I liked this design the most, so I decided to use this in all of my other pages. 

Next is the making of the collection overview page. I was inspired by this image below that use an interior illustration as the background with the characters looked like it were standing on a ground. I tried this idea using many different landscape illustration.

This is the example of the temple ruins landscape I used as the background, because I thought it aligned with my collection concept of ancient attire. 

This is how it looked with using interior of a kingdom as the background. Later in the final portfolio, I use this as the page design and change the background color into white and added a brown ground underneath the character's feet. 

After designing most of the portfolio pages, I then transferred the images into canvas as it has all the feature (text, image color grading, etc) I needed in one software. Using Canva helped me to make sure that all the pages has a consistent font style, font size and page color. I also edit the photoshoot picture in Canva using the color grading feature.