Drawing a Fashion Figure – Tracing Picture
If you’re a born artist, doing fashion illustration will certainly come easily to you. But if you want to draw but hate the way your figures come out, I can give you some tip to draw better fashion figure. When drawing fashion illustrations, you first create a rough sketch of the body, also referred to as a croquis. Here’s how to...
Separating Fashion from Figure Drawing
Although related, fashion and figure drawing are two different approaches to the same craft. Yes, they both draw the human form, but that’s where the similarities end. The most noticeable difference between the two styles is the fact that fashion drawing depends on exaggeration, and figure drawing features a more realistic drawing style. A woman drawn by a figure artist looks...
Fashion Design Drawing – Working Drawings
In fashion it is quite usual to produce a series of rough sketches or working drawings in order to arrive at a design or collection proposal. This allows the designer to develop variations on an idea, before making a final decision about a design, whilst at the same time forming part of a critical process of elimination and refinement. The...
Human body
The human body in proportion As a fashion designer, you should always remember that clothes are made to be worn by real people. It is important, therefore, to gain some understanding of the structure and proportions of the human body. There are obvious differences in the male and female forms, such as narrower waists and wider hips for females and squarer chests...
Fashion Illustration – Digital Art
Designers can create digital fashion sketches using computer art software. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are two mainstream programs that serve as excellent digital interpreters of the drawing skills a designer develops in the real world. All of the techniques described for fashion sketches created by hand can be recreated using the on-screen tools, layers, brushes, and filters. Many types...
Fashion Illustratation – Finding Inspiration
Inspiration for design themes can be found everywhere, whether your source is a seashell on a beach or a splendid skyscraper, the fun of the fair or the Carnival at Rio. If you research well, your topic will automatically influence your garment ideas; for example, the theme of a circus or fairground is likely to produce a colorful, flamboyant look....
The Fashion Figure – Croquis
Fashion drawings are frequently characterised by gesture and movement, both of which are ideally suited to exploration through drawing the fashion figure from life. Part of a fashion drawing’s allure is its seemingly effortless style, which is sometimes the result of a careful selection of lines and what is left to the imagination of the viewer. In this regard it...
Fashion Collection – Development Process
In order to develop a fashion collection one needs a great deal of creativity, a quality generally considered to be innate, and a gift that flowers on its own. Yet, the creative processes that lead to success are the result of the ability to come up with original solutions to concrete problems and situations that, beyond talent and individual gifts,...
