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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...
Fashion Design Drawing - Working Drawings

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...
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 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...
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...