Fashion Design Project -- Critiques please!

[daidemartin]

Hey, first post:)
Recently I started a design project with a friend called D&M (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=74705300330).
We're both interested in graphic design and in fashion, and this project is a perfect way to mix the two. Here's the type of stuff we're doing. Critiques please, we'd really appreciate some proper feedback!

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v334/152/49/1172504610/n1172504610_141431_9079.jpg


If you like our design, check out our facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=74705300330)
Thank-you

[daidemartin]

Also wondering if anyone could help me with a little problem:
I would like to add some depth to the image and get the pattern to "deform" and follow the folds of the fabric.
I have the original photo which I used to trace this image, and it has all the shadows and the highlights of the shirt.
I have tried using the displacement filter in photoshop, but it totally messed up the pattern...
Does anyone know a solution (preferably with photoshop or illustrator) ?

thanks in advance!

[Wizarekill]

the "model" has a very long neck =p

[daidemartin]

oh yeah, I never even noticed that... thanks for pointing it out :)

[budafist]

Does the shirt in your original photo have that pattern on it? If so, just use it as a template and pen tool on top of the lines.

[daidemartin]

No, it's a different pattern.

[CkretAjint]

displacement map in Photoshop.

[klucid]

It looks like you're using Illustrator. Why not use the mesh tool?

[Wizarekill]

This may be a real noob thing to say among these greats of graphics but (if you using photoshop) Cut bits out of the shirt and play with gradients to get a "baggy" effect.

Real noobish thing to say bu im drunk so what the he;ll :D

[klucid]

Mesh tool!

[spendthrift]

Your fashion is designed only for patient men. It needs patience to cloth on and off that a lot of star button. :)

[Pointyhat]

If the stars are snaps it would work, button-wise anyone would have to use a thimble to button the shirt. Fashion wise though, what's the underlining of the shirt? the sleeves fold to black.

[Microswede]

Will the shirt's lines be perfectly aligned like that at all times, no matter the folds?

Now that would be some fashion designing.