Fashion Zine - Final small brief - Rough struggles

Initial Ideas/Development

After thinking that I wouldn't struggle too much with this, when coming up with initial ideas, I found it quite difficult. I thought it would be a good idea to start drawing using my tablet onto photoshop using brushes so I could quickly come up with ideas. But because I never use this way to come up with development work (and now I know why) all my drawings weren't successful or helpful in the slightest. 

So I went back to what I know best (pencil) and started roughly drawing out initial ideas. I'm so glad I went back to using the old school analogue method because I found that my drawings were far more in proportion and looked a lot more human than my photoshop, I suppose you can call them, drawings. But I am kind of glad I used my digital method first so I have learnt for the future to stick to pencil and paper. 

Although I did still struggle with the style that she wanted to me to do, as it really doesn't come naturally to me. Portraiture isn't something that is hard for me, I think I'm quite good at drawing someone's face that being realistically or just simple lines, but doing the rest of the body... not my strongest. I find it hard to keep everything in proportion with each element without them looking like a mutant. So I had to keep practicing doing the characteristics of the face and body again and again and kept referring back to the artist that she gave me, studying the ways in how the structure and layout of the women are created.