Fashion drawing

Fashion Illustratation - Finding Inspiration

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 Fashion Figure - Croquis

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...
Fashion Collection - Development Process

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...
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...
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...
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...
Mood board for Fashion Collection

Mood board for Fashion Collection

Creating a mood board is great fun and will help you be selective with the research you have gathered for your new Fashion Ideas. This is the first stage of organizing your thoughts and collected images, enabling you to channel your creative excitement toward a...
The Fashion Sketches

The Fashion Sketches

An understanding of the human body is integral to fashion sketching, which is usually the process of drawing the clothed figure on a stylised human form. To a lay person, fashion sketches can often appear abstract, energetic or even unfinished, but in fact fashion sketches...
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...
Art Supplies for Fashion Drawing

Art Supplies for Fashion Drawing

Setting up your workspace to enable you to draw fashion is a fundamental starting point. You should always begin by considering your light sources: make sure that you can see what you are doing. Some people draw fashion on a flat surface but it is...