Wardrobe and Texture
Brooke Shaden
Lesson Info
24. Wardrobe and Texture
Lessons
Class Introduction
07:25 2Overview of Brooke’s Journey
20:13 3Your Timeline is Nonlinear
05:37 4Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
03:26 5What Factors Dictate Growth
08:24 6Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth
05:18 7Niche Branding
04:57 8Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline
24:27How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?
10:02 10Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
05:54 11Idea Fluency
10:33 12How to Represent an Idea
07:01 13How to Innovate an Idea
07:07 14Creating a Dialogue With Your Art
05:48 15Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
03:43 16Transforming a Single Image Into a Series
03:12 17How to Tell a Story in a Series
03:28 18How to Create Costumes From Fabric
07:20 19Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes
02:19 20Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image
02:56 21Create Physical Elements in an Image
10:22 22Shooting for a Fine Art Series
05:45 23Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert
04:08 24Wardrobe and Texture
04:54 25Posing for the Story
05:32 26Choosing an Image
01:23 27Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass
11:34 28Posing for the Story
04:17 29Creating Backlight
02:37 30Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite
17:51 31Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite
06:31 32Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite
07:40 33Shooting the Background Images
06:14 34Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds
24:35 35Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject
04:20 36Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading
02:45 37Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture
15:24 38Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
03:21 39Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds
05:25 40Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments
03:55 41Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning
03:21 42Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
06:58 43Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms
02:17 44Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color
02:47 45Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
04:04 46Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds
10:45 47Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop
06:11 48Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair
05:07 49Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments
04:49 50Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
05:00 51Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing
08:46 52Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
03:34 53Materials for Alternative Processes
06:20 54Oil Painting on Prints
05:41 55Encaustic Wax on Prints
03:09 56Failure vs. Sell Out
05:14 57Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You
03:35 58Branding Yourself Into a Story
05:40 59The Artistic Narrative
05:26 60Get People to Care About Your Story
03:36 61Get People to Buy Your Story
11:36 62Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice
03:41 63Pricing For Commissions
06:43 64Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints
02:11 65Class Outro
01:00 66Live Premiere
16:14 67Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1
04:41 68Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2
07:12 69Live Premiere: Q&A
16:10 70Live Premiere: Photo Critique
47:33Lesson Info
Wardrobe and Texture
So you're looking awesome, by the way, with the K. I love this. I love anything that adds texture, right? And the good thing about playing with materials like this is if it's too much, we'll use some water and take it off. But the thing that I'm really excited about is that I have some syrup here. Which can I think we talked about this earlier. Be a really good way off, adding layers of texture in an image. So I'm going Thio, take the lid off of this and show you a little bit of how syrup can work here, which is not pleasant for anybody involved. So hopefully you will enjoy this for all of us. I'm just getting it on my hand like that, and I'm letting it kind of thin out a bit and dry up just a little. And the great thing about using syrup is that as it dries, it almost becomes like an adhesive, and it will take some of the clay off in places and add different texture. So that's gonna be the next step is just taking a hand with some syrup painted on it and just kind of pressing on the s...
kin. So that's what we're going to do next. You mind if I touch your leg real quick? Okay. So just kind of getting a little bit on and letting it kind of sit, And then we'll come in later and press it and pull it away so that it creates this sort of disgusting. I can't even describe the texture. I feel like I'm trying to describe food in my mouth or something, which that's weird, but whatever. So that's what we're gonna do with the texture eyes Just use syrup and clay and kind of layer that on. This looks amazing. I'm really I'm very pleased with this, So I think it looks really good. And if we could just get right across the chest, then I think we'll be fine on looking good. Do you have enough, clay? Yeah. Okay. Just have to keep dipping it. So right now we're just using clay in water like a soap bar and just rubbing it on, which is working pretty well. If you try to use clay on its own, you're going to find that it is just clumpy, and it doesn't really do a ton. It has to have water on it. So that's why it's really kind of helpful to have clay mixed with something else to try to break it down, to use its natural sediment to create texture. Right now, we're going to use a sponge thio kind of fix the texture up a little bit. So if we get a little bit of water on there, we could just go in and kind of dab a little bit and see if we can lessen the clay in some places and leave it in others. And these are all just fun ways that we can play with texture. But you can always modify what you've done. I'm not so great at, you know, creating texture on the first try creating painting or clay or anything on the first try. So it's always good to have something to just kind of go in and clean it up a little bit and create more, and you can see when I do this, it's it's creating, like especially right there. It's really gorgeous, creating this natural texture that I think is really interesting. Have you ever been sponged before with Europe in water? But I think it looks good. I like this a lot. Okay, I'll leave that with you, and I might ask you to use it more, but but it's looking pretty cool. So I think that we're ready for the fish bowl on the head. And it's not like it's a perfect, you know, like round bowl per se. It's got a flat top to it, and it's not gonna go right around the neck like I would like it to, but I looked quite extensively for a fish bowl, a glass fish bowl, and they're not very easy to find. So we're gonna go with this and just just see how it is. And you know, we'll play with that. So I'm going to spray it one more time with the water, because I think I've decided that this will be the front so I'll really get that wet. And I'm gonna hand this to you. And that's the side that I want toward the camera. If we can manage it, I know it's like, how do you get in? Uh huh. Yes, it looks great. Okay, so I'm gonna come in and just, like, reach under to manipulate some of these flowers Because this is really I'm so sorry that this is the weirdest thing ever, but I don't even know if I could do it. Uh huh. Looks good. Okay, let's try that for now. And I'm gonna be rotate it that way just ever so slightly. Yeah. There you go. That's perfect. Oh, we've got a stray flower. Okay, I'm gonna grab my camera and get in position, so we haven't also I'm going to put this cap on because we should not have an open bottle of syrup here.
Class Materials
Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Brooke never fails to deliver. I found this course superb from start to finish. From exercising your creative 'muscle', demystifying taking self portraits, and showing that they don't have to be perfect before you begin editing, to walking you through her editing process and how to price your work. Brooke's enthusiastic personality and excitement about the work shines through it all. Definitely recommended!
Rebecca Potter
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Brooke for this amazing class. Inspired and so full of practical knowledge, this is the best class I've ever watched. You have given me the confidence to pursue what I've always been afraid to do. Watch this space!
Søren Nielsen
Thank for fantastic motivating an very inspiring. The story telling and selling module was very helpful - thanks from Denmark