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
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...
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...
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....
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...
