Fashion Illustration Techniques


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Learn the basics of fashion illustration and all the necessary tools and techniques from the field with Fashion Illustration Techniques! Filled with step-by-step drawings and covering all the fundamentals such as drawing head and body proportions, choosing colors, and much more, this complete guide is the only reference book you’ll need to start designing for the world of fashion. Zeshu Takamura has based this book on the curriculum of the beginner's course at the fashion design school that he teaches in, and lends his years of experience and skills to this comprehensive resource. Inside, you'll find each skill set broken down by week: - The 1st Week: Let's Master Basic Drawing - The 2nd Week: Let's Master Body Parts and Garment Items Drawing - The 3rd Week: Let's Try Coloring - The 4th Week: Master Design Drawing and Make Your Own Design With easy-to-follow instructions that will prepare you for this creative field, Fashion Illustration Techniques is a must-have for all fashion design students who require a basic knowledge of drawing and illustration techniques.




Contemporary Fashion Illustration Techniques


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The primary skill needed by anyone who works in fashion is the ability to convey—to clients and the general public alike—images of the designs. The impression given to the viewer depends on whether the fashion design drawings are good. Contemporary Fashion Illustration Techniques thoroughly describes the basics of fashion illustration, and covers the latest trends such as vivid images, sprightly movement, and garment material texture. After all, fashion drawing is not simply about sketching a body and face; only when you accurately reproduce the garments and their colors can the designs truly come to life.




Fashion Illustration & Design


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Versace's chief illustrator teaches us how to draw, halfway between fashion sketch and illustration, in a non-classical and non-stereotypical way.




Essential Fashion Illustration


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Annotation "The ability to create accurate and life-like fashion drawings is an indispensable piece of the fashion illustration process, and it is the first step in transforming your creativity into reality. Essential Fashion Illustration: Details contains hundreds of inspiring drawings for those looking to polish their skills or those who simply want to take their drawings to the next level. Inside, you'll find the crucial detail-stitching, pleat, wrinkle, or ruffle-that your drawings and your clients desperately need."--Jacket.




Fashion Illustration


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Learn how to draw stylish looks with step-by-step guidance from a top New York designer and teacher. Drawing is vitally important for the fashion industry. Now, leading fashion designer and illustrator Anna Kiper contributes to the revival of this unique art form with Fashion Illustration. Every illustration lesson included presents a story with exciting design details and ideas to inspire designers to rediscover the art of hand drawing as a tool for creating vibrant and original work. This book will help you: Achieve movement and attitude in figure drawing by following a few simple steps Develop striking and energetic page compositions Explore effortless ways to illustrate print, textures, and embellishments Discover an exciting variety of media and techniques to enrich your individual drawing style With chapters including The Fashion Figure, Fashion Dictionary, Accessories, Illustrating Men, Illustrating Children, Fabric Rendering Techniques, and more, even beginners can learn to illustrate fashion from a designer’s perspective.




The Art of Fashion Illustration


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The ultimate guide to fashion sketching with more than 250 beautiful illustrations from the international community's masters of illustration and rising stars. Includes tear out sheets to practice your own fashion illustration.




Fashion Drawing


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ILLUSTRATION. This book is a comprehensive, practical guide to fashion drawing for students and designers looking to improve their skills. With a contemporary and comprehensive approach, the book offers step-by-step guidance and shows how drawing is an integral function of the garment design process. Illustrated throughout with a wide range of images from key illustrators and designers, Fashion Drawing provides the instruction necessary to allow students to develop their own illustration style.




The Encyclopedia of Fashion Illustration Techniques


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The latest in our essential Encyclopedia of Art series puts the spotlight on the catwalk to provide a practical compendium of all-media fashion design techniques. Suitable for beginners as well as experienced illustrators, this book takes readers step-by-step through precise techniques used by professionals. Learn to depict fabric textures and folds, work with color and tone to create the illusion of body forms, and transform real-life model poses into stylized figures. Containing a visual gallery of over 500 illustrations to clarify each method described, this book is an essential guide to help designers, fashion mavens, and even amateur doodlers, communicate their ideas and develop a unique graphic style.




Fashion Illustration 1920-1950


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Comprehensive, user-friendly guide combines four vintage instructional manuals by a famous teacher. Step-by-step drawings with helpful comments explain principles of figure and fashion drawing. Techniques include pencil, pen, wash, and opaque.




Essential Fashion Illustration: Poses


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Learn how to draw posed figures for fashion illustration This comprehensive reference provides hands-on techniques for created posed figures for fashion illustration. The first section illustrates various examples of nude and semi-nude poses (male and female). Later chapters illustrate the same poses wearing sportswear, sleepwear, dresses, suits, trousers, and casual and evening wear. The poses in each chapter are organized to show a progression including seated model (crossed legs, straight legs, seated on chair, seated on the floor); standing model (frontal view, three-quarter view, side-view from the back with crossed legs and straight legs); and moving model (running, walking, dancing). Each chapter begins with an introduction which is followed by images with detailed explanatory captions. With a focus on shape and form, the content covers marker and pencil techniques for a complete range of illustrated poses.