Olivia Rodrigo Festival Outfits Project
A few months prior to this project, I had drawn a line-up of Olivia’s outfits from The Guts World Tour.
Later on, my skills had evolved, and so had Olivia’s styling. Her festival run outfits were all the rage online, and I was so drawn to the fashion personally, so I decided to draw a few of my favorite looks.
Posing Reference
Original Image
I was looking for a dynamic full-body pose that could act as a base for all the outfits. Something not stiff, but also showing a full outfit clearly. This promotional image by Larissa Hofmann for Olivia’s Guts album promo stood out to me.
Prep
I masked and flipped the image, color corrected it to be less cold, isolated the legs, and used the puppet warp tool to make her posture less slouched.
New Facial Expression
Once you flip an image, a person tends to not really look like themselves anymore - and anyway, I wanted a playful expression, not a serious face, so this matched perfectly with my vision.
Final Reference
I added the new face and isolated the body from the hair, so I had a clear silhouette to work with. Trust the process!
Rendering Process
A big breakthrough in my drawing process I’ve discovered recently is to shade in grayscale initially, allowing myself to focus on the values without splitting my focus on the color at the same time. It allows more understanding of lighting and speeds up my process. This is a great building off point, but it doesn’t do all the work. After applying gradient maps that cater to my taste, I go back in adding more detail with brushes, making tweaks and elevating the resemblance. Where in the past I would have to do a whole new line-art on top of the sketch, this way I can just build on top of the sketch to make it more detailed, allowing more revisions and less constraints. The painterly feel and “messiness” allows for a lot more freedom.
The Base
Throughout this whole process, I made sure to keep as many layers as possible separate from each other. I knew each outfit would have different elements, and shared elements, so I wanted my photoshop file to be non-destructive as possible.
This is just a snippet of my many layers. (I never imagined making so many sets of cleavage but that’s what you have to do when drawing multiple types of fitted clothes.)
The Final Looks
Image Credits: CQPhotographer, Ricardo Valadez, Leon Neal, Joseph Okpako, Mairo Cinquetti
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Details
Custom Looks
After some time away from the initial release of my project, I decided to revisit it and create some custom clothing inspired by some pinterest posts I saw that I thought would match Olivia’s style and branding.