FIC: SCAD Fashion Illustration Club

Look at that amazing Fashion Illustration!!

Now don’t you just want that on a graphic tee?

Well now you can!! Come to the FIC meeting on Friday Feb. 3rd at 7:00 pm in Eckburg Hall rm 206 and place your order.

The shirts are only $13 each! They will be a teal fitted tee with the graphic on it.

Our next meeting will be held this friday October 21st, in Eckburg room 206 at 7 pm.

We will be having a model drawing session along with collecting any submissions for the t-shirt fundraiser.

I hope to see all of you there with your favorite sketching supplies!!

RSVP via the facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=179034612178801

Come and find out what our projects are going to be for this year and get to know other club members!

We are super excited about them!

Fashion Illustrator Niki Pilkington

It’s time to come out of hiding now that we are back to school! Come join us for food and a fun time at the Fall Fest at Dyson Field on Saturday September 17th from 4-7 pm to learn about our events for the year. New members always welcome, and we need models too!!

Check out a few photos from a past meeting with Prof. Megan Berkheiser:

Image ©Sandra Suy via http://vectroave.com/2009/09/sandra-suy-illustrations/

FIC wants to wish everyone a fun and safe spring break!

Don’t forget to email us your FIC annual submissions or have a CD to give us at the first spring quarter meeting on April 1st!

Best,

FIC Officers

A little collage based fashion illustration for inspiration! Snip Snip!

Silja Goetz

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Kat Macleod

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Stina Persson

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Brittney Lee

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Megan Brain

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Don’t forget to join us next Friday, March 4th at 6pm in Eckburg Room 206 for a collage demo (with a focus on creating a figure) with Illustration Professor Megan Berkheiser!

FIC

illo by Elena Tsaregradskaya http://tsaregradskaya.com/

For those that missed last night’s meeting, we had a talk by Prof. Lara Wolf on places to safely publish work online and the benefits you gain from online exposure. Below are the lists of sites we compiled to supplement the discussion:

Networking sites for illustrators (Upload a portfolio and connect with potential employers & fellow artists):

• Deviant Art http://www.deviantart.com/ (a giant network of artists!)
• Would You Rock This? http://wouldyourockthis.com/ (specifically for fashion illustration, upload sketches and receive feedback)
• Illustration Friday http://www.illustrationfriday.com/ (unique, weekly illustrations you submit on a topic, post to a blog or website)
• Create a Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/ (self explanatory…)
• Society 6 http://www.society6.com/ (great collaboration opportunities and you can also sell your work here)
• Coroflot http://www.coroflot.com/public/login_createport.asp (simply create a portfolio and connect)
• Behance Network http://www.behance.net/ (an international site for artists to connect and clients to search)
• LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/ (connect with people you know, you can add a live Behance portfolio to your profile)
• Style Portfolios http://styleportfolios.com/

Create your own website:

• Carbonmade http://carbonmade.com/ (free version or monthly paid)
• Other People’s Pixels http://otherpeoplespixels.com/ ($)
• Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ (free)
• LiveBooks http://www.livebooks.com/ ($$)
• Your webspace through the school (free)

Blogs:

• Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com
• Blogger http://www.blogger.com
• WordPress http://wordpress.org/

Places to sell your art:

• U Gallery http://www.ugallery.com
• Fine Art America http://fineartamerica.com/
• Imagekind http://www.imagekind.com/
• Etsy http://www.etsy.com/ (sell handmade products, prints, and original work; great for selling garments too)
• Goodsie http://goodsie.com/ (easily create your own web store, great design platform, small fee monthly)
• Thumbtack Press http://thumbtackpress.com/submit.php (selection of artist after submission of preview JPG, offers a link to artist website with each print displayed for sale)

Job Listings:

• Folio Planet http://www.folioplanet.com/ (Database for clients to search for artists)
• College Central http://www.studentcentral.com/ (SCADs Job Board)

Sketch by Kate (at http://little-doodles.blogspot.com/)

Join FIC tonight for another night of fashion sketching fun! Our meeting will begin with a short talk from our advisor, Prof. Lara Wolf on publishing your work online. This will be followed by a model sketching session. Bring along a drawing board, paper, and medium of choice (pastel, charcoal, pencil, and ink are great from quick sketching).

Music, refreshments, and great company to be had!

We hope to see you all tonight!

FIC

illustration by Toril Baekmark

Hello!

It’s that time again! Our first model sketching session of Winter quarter takes place this Friday night at 6pm in Eckburg room 206. Join us to hear about club projects and get in some extra practice drawing a clothed figure.

Bring along paper, drawing utensils of your choice, and a drawing board. Easels, stools, music, and refreshments are on us!

Hope to see you there!

FIC