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Illustrating Fashion - Using Different Media

Illustrating Fashion – Using Different Media

One of the most important aspects of Illustrating Fashion is the ability to "loosen up." Often a budding designer will freeze up over an important drawing, whether it's for presentation, publication, or just to show to someone else. Spontaneity is lost and any freedom that existed in the private sketchbook suddenly becomes rigid and dull. We can all be a bit...
August 6, 2014Fashion drawing, , , ,
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Fashion Sketchbooks

The Fashion Sketchbooks

Fashion Sketchbooks are the repository of a fashion designer’s ideas, observations and thoughts. Whilst there is no template for the perfect sketchbook (and they are not solely the preserve of fashion designers), a good fashion sketchbook should enable the designer to progressively record and document a series of ideas and inspirations through related visual and written material accumulated over time. All...
July 25, 2014Fashion drawing, , , ,
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The Fashion Sketching Process

The Fashion Sketching Process

Fashion sketching not only involves the act of drawing an initial idea but also the process of considering and developing the idea across the pages of a sketchbook. It is always best to have an idea of what you want to draw. This may sound obvious, but fashion sketching should be purposeful, not random or too abstract. In many respects...
July 24, 2014Fashion drawing, , , , , , ,
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Rendering Tools for Fashion Design

Rendering Tools for Fashion Design

The raw material of fashion design is fabric or textiles, terms that denote a multiplicity of beautiful yarns, fibers, colors, textures, smart synthetics, knits, organic cottons, and so on. Once your drawing accurately depicts the silhouette of your fashion design, rendering is the means by which you can convey information about the exciting fabric choices that help to make an...
July 10, 2014Fashion drawing, , , , , , ,
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