Second stage of analysis on Caroline Andrieu

For my second analysis of Caroline Andrieu's illustration style, I wanted to study how she illustrated the clothing in her designs.  For this I selected the image shown above.

I decided to concentrate on the middle model as it is a full body illustration with incredible detail.  my first steps in replicating this image was to firstly, trace around the outline of the image with a black marker (shown below);

Following this, I then scanned my illustration into photoshop where the hard work began!  However, upon uploading it to Photoshop I realised that I needed to add in more detail to my original outlined image as the detail was so high, I needed more guidelines before I could even begin to think about adding in colour.  Therefore, I took my original image and drew in the following extra details which are shown below;

This image was much better and therefore I could now begin to colour the image in the same style as Caroline.  I began with the shoes which I basically selected on the background layer using the 'Magic Wand Tool' and then created a new layer where I used an array of complimentary colours to the original image and created a striped effect (shown below);

Following this, the hair and facial features were added.  The facial features were drawn in using basic grey shading skills previously learnt in Photoshop.  The hair was created by using increasing layers of different shades of grey with the brush tool (same settings as the initial illustration) and the smudge tool was then used to blend the strokes together.  This is shown below;

Once these basics were achieved the main dress was next on the list.  I decided to break it up into sections and started with the top left hand side of the dress.  This was created by using the same method as the hair in this illustration as the collar in the intial illustration.  By building up varied shades of the chosen colour whilst smudging the lines, it created a fantastic three-dimensional style as shown below;

The bottom half of the dress was then created using the same method and the result is shown below;

At this stage I was very impressed with the outcome so I moved on to creating the striped effect on the right hand side of the dress.  I created this by initially adding alternate horizontal stripes of varying colours.  Once I was happy with this I then blended the edges ever so slightly just to reduce the harshness of the lines.  Following this I then added some white paint using the brush tool as before to add light to where it would naturally fall on the garment in real life.  This is widely seen in Caroline's illustrations where the outcome is to make the garments appear as life-like as possible.  My result is shown in the following illustration;

This is my final illustraton done on my analysis of Caroline Andrieu's illustrative style techniques and how they are used to create they fantastic images.  I hope you like it!