Youtube: Gosupermodel design videos

I have some videos I've been making and putting up on http://youtube.com/born4catz for Gosupermodel.com designs. People from all over like to watch them and gain some insight into what makes a good design, or how to go about it. I don't claim to be an expert- junior designer or not- I just know that people are curious as to "how" I do it. So this is where they can see first hand. I try to cover many different topics according to requests, or just whatever I'm working on at the time. I'm embedding some of them here on my blog. Facebookers probably won't see them.
Over time as the site has changed, and as my videos have become more popular, I have worked on how the videos are presented. Hopefully with taste and class. :)
I also plan on doing this with many of my current artworks once I finish them. I take more care with regular art since it's paper and I don't have an UNDO button haha. So it takes much longer to produce those things.






This one with the pink background was my first video. it's gotten 29,014 views so far.

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Since I took some pictures of the process, I think I'll try to sum it up with the poor quality phone shots. (Oh also, I was the USA winner of the gosupermodel wedding dress design competition. The final product was released today. So if you join, you can pick one up.:)

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When I started this, I was at our cabin just enjoying a nice weekend. I wanted to make something ornate, and I wanted something that was framed by it's self, so I could fit it on a t-shirt someday. I also like to stick with the art nouveau look, and detailed headpieces. The wings on the shoulders were partly inspired by world of warcraft, and I tried to incorporate as many details as I could. I had a lot of fun drawing the eyes, relying on my eraser to get a white lash effect.

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I was working on regular children's extra wide craft paper xD We had lots of it around so I started sketching on it. It's served me well over the years. I started the skin with skin white and milky white Copic sketch probably. I don't really remember.

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Shaded the skin using probably fruit pink, and started marking the hair with cool gray 0 and 01 or 02.

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Filled in the background and used pale lavender on the hair as well.

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Filled in most everything else. Added blue to her hair, used cool grays and purples on her clothing, filled eyes using frost blue(personal favorite) and purple.

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Filled in more of the background, frame, more of her outfit, headdress, etc. After this point I didn't document it, but I mostly used ink pots and used white and purple ink to finish up the frame.

The End!

Gosupermodel Wedding Dress Competition

So this particular day I found out that the winner could have their design put into the shop :D

So I'm all over that. I took inspiration from Andre Kim's amazing dresses that he modeled using SuLi from F(x)

Here are some screen shots.

I tried to keep it tight so the least amount of effort would be involved in converting it for supernova. I still don't know how they'll manage that, but I can still dream.

That was the initial mapping out of the skirt. Which I changed later on.

Here I thought I was finished, but it still needed some work. Especially since I know that JR Designers aren't supposed to use 50% opacity at all. So I changed it again, and used some different hair so that the shoulders were more visible.

I think this is the final design. It's currently uploading, and I'm hoping I can get it in time before the deadline. I know it's a little off-center but that's the space available. I didn't want to sacrifice the fullness of the skirt for the sake balance. And I think it looks great anyway. :)

http://us.gosupermodel.com/profiles/?id=443657

The Dragon. such as it is...

This is the finished product, I suppose. Haha, I'm really not sure what else to do with it. I changed all the colors around from the original... because I could. No sooner had I hit submit than 3 people had already added it to their favorites on D.A.  I hope it looks half decent to you all. I spent a few months beating around doing this, and I even got really sick in the process. this was definitely a labor of love. 

*curtsy* Enjoy, and let me know what you think! 

Love, Born4catz

Check it out...

Just finished this "design" on goSupermodel hehe, that was really fun to do! It's so easy to use the site instead of making my own drawings, I feel quite guilty that i only have to come up with hair, clothes, and background, I get to skip the brain frying caused by anatomy and dynamic poses, and avoiding mediocre repetition.
Fear not, I have still been sketching, it just hasn't been scanned.
Actually, this site has come in handy! I can quite easily take my clothing and background designs and make a full picture out of it, spending less time coming up with the ideas and more time executing them!
Bit of a lifesaver in the long run. So there you go, hopefully you can expect a "FULL version" of the above picture coming to a website near you soon!
Happy Holidays! (and an early Merry Christmas! <><)

Getting a little sidetracked...

Okay, to prove that I haven't spent all of my time playing World of Warcraft.. I'll show you what my little sister got me into: (don't laugh too much >_<) It's a site called GoSupermodel.com they basically give you a digital paper doll that you can dress up with clothes you buy using "GoMoney" which they give you when you play games. (if that sounds time consuming ... it is.) By far the best part of the site is they give you the undressed paper doll to DRAW clothes onto using their "designer" game :) and you can make them look like anything you want! (my first design was an empire waist dress ala pride & prejudice - pictured here) then you submit them for approval (and pay a fee of 10 gomoney) and a few hours or a day later its automatically listed under your model's name. It's all mostly 8 year olds playing around, but also i've run into some older ladies and even 16-17ish girls who are future graphic designers; using the site for practice!
Good clean fun is what it is, and how often do you get that anymore? Plus it's something my little sis and I can enjoy together :-3 and it's not like I haven't been drawing at all XP I'm just saved the trouble of drawing anything but clothes and sometimes hair bwa ha ha ha ha XD
my designs have gotten better too, here's my version of galadriel (some downsides are #1 no male models and #2 when you design they give you the box surrounding the model to work with, and then surround it with a HUGE frame of empty space : / it takes some imagination and illusionary work to make it all seamless)
two more I'll share with you are my Alphonse Mucha tribute, and my Marie Antoinette
ciao! :)