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Careers and Fields in Fashion Illustration

Careers and Fields in Fashion Illustration

Back in the days before the Internet and great cameras, fashion illustrators were essential for showing a designer’s creations. Today, you find fewer true fashion illustrators who make their living through drawing fashion. But the art of fashion drawing itself will never die, no matter how advanced technology gets. Illustrating is and always will be important because it gets the...
Making Your Own Fashion Signature Style

Making Your Own Fashion Signature Style

As you expand your drawing experiences, you’ll want to include more of yourself in your art. As you get more comfortable with pencil and paper, work on incorporating a technique or two that tells the viewer that this drawing was done by you, not one of the hundreds of other artists out there. Read some tips on putting your own...
Drawing a Fashion Figure - Tracing Picture

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

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...