The ultimate guide to drawing fashion flats. Beginners will be drawing flats like a pro in no time. Professional users will find a wealth of tips and tricks to increase productivity. Learn to: Master the pen tool; Draw technical flats with ease; Organize layers for quick and easy editing; Create custom brush and symbol libraries; Design seamless patterns; Generate multiple color ways fast. A great companion text for Illustrator for Fashion Design: Drawing Flats at Lynda.com
"How to Draw Women's Wear" is a hands-on, actionable guide to fashion drawing for busy fashion professionals who want to develop a highly productive drawing process; for fashion students who are in the process of developing their drawing style; and for clothing designers who want to make illustrations properly interpreted by all team members. The book focuses on drawing by hand (pencil and black marker), demonstrating methods and techniques of illustrating clothing and structural elements of design. Created for visual learners; the book contains virtually no text, only captions. The book includes a collection of fashion drawing templates for main women's wear figure types allowing you to focus on apparel drawing to illustrate clothing the way it is actually designed. Avoid mistakes in clothing design illustration; the book includes a special section with dos and don'ts of garment drawing. The book combines features of a reference book, a visual guide, tutorial, and template book. Figure templates, garment templates, terminological references, step-by-step drawing demos, sketching examples illustrating a progression of an idea from a sketch to completed illustration: all are parts of the same book. Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer by trade, a classically trained visual artist, and an experienced educator. "How to Draw Women's Wear" is the latest book in the Fashion Croquis book series.
Draw Fashion Now: Techniques, Inspiration, and Ideas for Illustrating and Imagining Your Designs shows how to render figures, fabrics, and garments, and develop a personal style of sketching.
This book is a collection of 8 menswear projects illustrated with pencil and marker. In the book, each look has shown layer by layer, step by step. Use this book to learn how fashion flat sketches correspond with illustrations to develop a completed fashion illustration from a raw sketch in simple steps to draw flat sketches from preliminary pencil drawing to completed in marker flats, ready for specs to illustrate layered outfits layer by layer. The book is very visual by design and contains a minimum of text: only essential captions. A book is not a textbook or manual. It does not teach you “how to draw”; however, you can advance your skills by following the step-by-step drawing process using the book as a tutorial. Please note that there are no figure templates in the book. All drawings in the book were illustrated with a simple pencil. Sketch illustrations show the original roughness and spontaneity. This "sketchbook" style is instructive and visual. In every illustration, you can see traces of the creative process. All illustrations and sketches are supplemented with each outfit's matching technical drawings (flat fashion sketches). The "Step by step process" concept reinforces the book's instructional value. More than 200 hand-drawn illustrations and sketches in the book illustrate every step and every layer. It is a unique book created by professionals for professionals. The book is practical and visual and makes the complexity of the fashion drawing process easier to comprehend.
Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing is a step-by-step workbook for learning technical drawing and flat sketching skills. With more than 500 hand-drawn and CAD-rendered flats and 100 photos of finished samples showing how a sketch translates to a 3D garment, the book covers a range of garments and construction details used to communicate fashion designs for portfolios and production. Abling and DaCosta progress from basic design construction details such as darts, gathers, and trims to essential garment styles including skirts, tops, dresses, pants, jackets and coats. The book includes unique coverage of presentation of flats in a portfolio and critical step of preparing flats for a technical package and productions. Downloadable figure templates and flats library are available online. This book is an essential resource for fashion designers to learn technical drawing skills that effectively communicate fashion design concepts. Features � Shows front-view and back-view flats, select side-view and 3/4-view flats, plus variations for menswear and childrenswear � Covers basic CAD techniques, how to use the pen tool, and methods for translating hand-drawn flats to digital drawings � Guest Artist features showcase professional designer styles for flats to inspire creativity � Practical format includes lay-flat spiral binding and drawing practice pages with grids and figure templates Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing STUDIO � Download figure templates and basic garment flats that can be used in different CAD programs or printed out for reference or practice � Access extra drawing exercises and project using women's, men's, and children's flat figure templates � Review concepts with flashcards of essential fashion vocabulary Teaching Resources � The Instructor's Resources include sample course syllabi, test questions, visual quizzes and grading guidelines. PLEASE NOTE: Purchasing or renting this ISBN does not include access to the STUDIO resources that accompany this text. To receive free access to the STUDIO content with new copies of this book, please order the book + STUDIO access card bundle ISBN 9781501313035 or eBook + Studio Instant Access bundle ISBN 978150131302.
Fashion Design: The Complete Guide is a modern and stylish introduction to working within the fashion industry today. Catwalk images show the latest trends and contributions from industry professionals span centres of fashion across London, Paris and New York. A fabulous selection of images and plenty of suggestions of further resources make this a useful and exciting springboard into a successful career in fashion. This behind-the-scenes guide to the study of fashion is for current and aspiring designers, fashion lovers and students. It provides an all-inclusive overview of the entire design process, covering the history of fashion, fashion illustration, colour and fabrics, the journey from concept to finished garment, research processes, presenting a collection and professional practice. It is generously illustrated throughout with images from famous designers, includes promising graduate work and showcases original artwork from a variety of studios. The new essential text for aspiring fashion designers, Fashion Design: The Complete Guide is filled with practical advice at every stage, including help with portfolios, personal promotion and career opportunities. With an attractive and colourful layout, every chapter also includes interviews, discussion questions, activities and further reading. The book is illustrated with beautiful examples of work from both established and up-and-coming designers, including Alexander McQueen, Viktor & Rolf, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christian Dior, Anna Sui, Jonathan Saunders, Mary Katrantzou and Elie Saab, and pictures of style icons such as Tilda Swinton and Gwen Stefani.
Communicate your ideas and designs through a variety of sketches, drawings and expressive illustrations, with guidance from a seasoned professional. With more than 150 colour examples, John Hopkins takes you through the different styles, techniques and approaches to drawing in the fashion industry. This second edition offers advice on selecting appropriate materials and media, with examples demonstrating their different uses and applications. You'll also learn the theory and history of fashion drawing, and the range of styles used by contemporary designers, from quick sketches to sophisticated digital drawings. In addition to new interviews with designers and illustrators, a glossary, resources directory and revised templates, this edition also has exercises to get you pencilling your fashion figures, painting your collections and developing that all-important portfolio right from the start.
