Costume design
Whenever a new comic,film or TV show is made, the characters have to wear a specific costume. This is really important when the events you are depicting take place in the past, as the costumes have to be historically accurate.
This post will be mostly about my costume designs but some of the information I take about might be helpful to any other designers.
The comic I am currently working on Black Voyage takes place in two different times. Issue 0 takes place in the 19th century, while issue 1 takes place in the 18th century. This means that the costume designs will be different for each issue as the fashion and trends were different during each century.
As Issue one takes place in the 1700s, I needed to research what people wore, which is easy enough when we have google. However, most if not all the clothing are on mannequins this to me doesn't give a full picture of how they fitted on a real person.
So my next step was the research TV of films that were set in the the 18th century, this allows me to see authentic clothing from the century and how they fitted and worked with the human body. There were two properties that caught my attention those were 'The Duchess' and 'Outlander'
These two franchises were perfect as there costumes represent the different classes and style of clothing as when you google search all the images are clothing belonging to the upper class. Outlanders costumes helped with designing costumes for the lower class and male costumes.
Below is a GIF of the moodboard I created from both these shows, to inspire my costume designs.
Now this seems like a rather long and tedious process for costume design you may only use once. Well it was, but from this research I found a better and much easier way of researching costumes that historically accurate.
I found a site hosts a wide range of costumes from films. The purpose of the site is a place of research on movie costumes. I found this site very helpful as they have a section on georgian clothing in films.
This is a great site if you want to research a particular period in time to give the costumes that historical accuracy or need some inspiration.
Here is the link to the site: http://www.costumersguide.com/index.shtml
Another way to research costumes especially historical would be at a museum, as then you will be able to create the right perspective and understand how it looks from a 360 degree angle.
Hope this has been in some way helpful or informative.
This post will be mostly about my costume designs but some of the information I take about might be helpful to any other designers.
The comic I am currently working on Black Voyage takes place in two different times. Issue 0 takes place in the 19th century, while issue 1 takes place in the 18th century. This means that the costume designs will be different for each issue as the fashion and trends were different during each century.
As Issue one takes place in the 1700s, I needed to research what people wore, which is easy enough when we have google. However, most if not all the clothing are on mannequins this to me doesn't give a full picture of how they fitted on a real person.
So my next step was the research TV of films that were set in the the 18th century, this allows me to see authentic clothing from the century and how they fitted and worked with the human body. There were two properties that caught my attention those were 'The Duchess' and 'Outlander'
These two franchises were perfect as there costumes represent the different classes and style of clothing as when you google search all the images are clothing belonging to the upper class. Outlanders costumes helped with designing costumes for the lower class and male costumes.
Below is a GIF of the moodboard I created from both these shows, to inspire my costume designs.
Now this seems like a rather long and tedious process for costume design you may only use once. Well it was, but from this research I found a better and much easier way of researching costumes that historically accurate.
I found a site hosts a wide range of costumes from films. The purpose of the site is a place of research on movie costumes. I found this site very helpful as they have a section on georgian clothing in films.
This is a great site if you want to research a particular period in time to give the costumes that historical accuracy or need some inspiration.
Here is the link to the site: http://www.costumersguide.com/index.shtml
Another way to research costumes especially historical would be at a museum, as then you will be able to create the right perspective and understand how it looks from a 360 degree angle.
Hope this has been in some way helpful or informative.
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