Zion Felisimo

Hey Everybody! Spring is just around the color and soon we will be finding ourselves running through green parks or just walking on the beach. (I know i will) So that is the inspiration for my first outfit that I have made. Yes, I have finally finished and uploaded my outfit last nite! I know I know most of you were wanting me to finish for weeks! lol It was a lot of hard work for my first time, making the boy briefs took forever since I was new to UV maps and how they work. They kept stretching all over the place. I still messed up the inside seam of the crotch but I’ll fix it later. Getting the seams to match was a total bitch!! It was a tremendous learning experience.

Not only was I making a garment I was also figuring out the most efficient way of creating clothing and building it in such a way so I can quickly change the colors of each garment. Photoshop vector shapes are the way to go. The shape, lines, and simple patterns of the garment should be done in vector shapes. Why? Because vector shape keep their lines sharper then just using a paint brush to paint the lines. Plus you can easy switch the color by just double clicking the shape in the layers palette and select a new color so you can have multiple color shirts!.

Texture and folds are very important to me. Anybody with a paint program can make a shirt but not may will take the time to put the texture of the cloth, the shading of the body, and the folds and wrinkles into the shirt. That it was separates the pros from the joes. I also don’t want to photo source my garments since I really want to improve my skills as an artist!

Making the folds was kinda difficult but with more practice I will master it Using the overlay 50% grey layer technique (I should write a tutorial on that one!) is very good for color shirts with the same tone but not good for black or white shirts.

I found my inspiration from American Apparel. I find their clothing very hot. I love natural beauty and simplicity. I also used American Apparels colors with my own for this outfit. I will be studying and duplication the real life masters of fashion so that I may grow and begin to create my own original work.

I’m very happy with my first outfit and looking forward to the next one!
Tutorials will follow!
See you in second life!

This outfit is called CaliGirl and you can have one for free just IM me!