Sketching Fashion This document includes sample sketches of both men’s and women’s fashions followed by croquis for you to use for your portfolio, and suggested online information on sketching fashion. Each suggested online lesson offers many more available from which to choose. Spend a little time and you will find one that fits your style and needs. Fashion designers design clothing and accessories. Some high-fashion designers are self-employed and design for individual clients. Other high-fashion designers cater to specialty stores or high-fashion department stores. These designers create original garments, as well as clothing that follow established fashion trends. Most fashion designers, however, work for apparel manufacturers, creating designs of men's, women's, and children's fashions for the mass market.
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Sketching Fashion
This document includes
sample sketches of both men’s and women’s fashions followed by
croquis for you to use for your portfolio, and
suggested online information on sketching fashion.
Each suggested online lesson offers many more available from which to choose. Spend a little time and you will find one that fits your style and needs. Fashion designers design clothing and accessories. Some high-fashion designers are self-employed and design for individual clients. Other high-fashion designers cater to specialty stores or high-fashion department stores. These designers create original garments, as well as clothing that follow established fashion trends. Most fashion designers, however, work for apparel manufacturers, creating designs of men's, women's, and children's fashions for the mass market.
Sketching Fashion A croquis -- from French "croquer" meaning "to sketch, rough out" -- is a sketch of a figure or model. The croquis acts as a template onto which you place your tracing paper where you will draw your clothing designs. This basic drawing will serve as the base of your fashion sketch. If the idea of figure drawing is intimidating, many templates with croquis sketches are available online. These templates illustrate figures in many different poses. By having a collection of many different poses, you can choose the pose that best displays the clothing that you wish to sketch. If you are sketching period costumes, then make sure the model's pose in the template you choose is much more demure than if you were sketching modern clothing.
Layout paper is a fine, tracing paper that is semi-transparent. You will draw your clothing designs onto this paper. Your croquis sketch or template will sit beneath the layout paper. Although it is thin and slightly opaque, layout paper is of good quality. Once you have sketched your first fashion designs, you can attach the layout paper sketches to a firmer piece of paper or poster board so that you can present your sketches in your portfolio.
Gather materials and supplies such as pencils, erasers, felt-tip pens and glue sticks for your fashion sketches. For general sketching, use soft B and 2B pencils. Make sure you have a pencil sharpener on hand so you can keep these pencils extra sharp. For highlighting and shading, choose 4B pencils. If you plan on adding color to your sketch, colored pencils or use quality felt-tip pens. A cheap felt-tip pen will cause the colors to run and blur. Choose putty rubber for your eraser, as this will not damage or rub away the paper if you make a mistake. To mount your sketch, use a light glue stick that will not wet and wrinkle the layout paper.
Considerations As a beginner, sketch clothing that follows a theme. For example, your theme could be dresses of varying necklines or waist variations, or textures and patterns. Gather inspiration from fashion magazines and newspapers. Create an artist's file that contains pictures and clippings of fashion, textures and fabrics that inspire you. Do not copy these designs, but use them to influence and inspire you as you sit down to create your first sketches. Sites to Explore Free Fashion Sketches www.designersnexus.com/design/free-fashion-sketches/ Whether sketching freehand, or computerized, fashion sketches, illustrations, CADs and presentations are all important parts of any fashion designer portfolio. More results for fashion illustration sketches http://www.designersnexus.com/design/free-fashion-sketches/ Design & Draw Fashion Sketches : Fine Tuning a ... - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yblbdstr9kw Details and fine tuning make any fashion sketch designer material; learn how to draw fashion sketches in this free video on fashion design and ... More results for how to sketch fashion designs
Fashion Drawing for Beginners - MonkeySee www.monkeysee.com › Beauty & Fashion › Women's Fashion Fashion Drawing for Beginners: Professional make-up artist Tu-Anh demonstratesfashion drawing for beginners. More results for how to sketch fashion drawings Fashion Sketches for Beginners | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_10027832_fashion-sketches- beginners.html#ixzz2Kp78RIy6 How to Draw Fashion Sketches http://www.ehow.com/video_4767269_draw-fashion-sketches.html Design & Draw Fashion Sketches http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_4180_design-draw-fashion-sketches.html Shading Texture on Fashion Sketches http://www.ehow.com/video_4408261_shading-texture-fashion-sketches.html
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Practice Technique (Shading) Assignment: http://www.dawnsbrain.com/lesson-
A few more sites that may be of interest A Career in the Fashion Industry http://careerplanning.about.com/od/occupations/p/fashion_designer.htm Should You Become a Fashion Designer? Quiz http://careerplanning.about.com/library/quiz/career_quizzes/blfashiondesign_quizresults.htm?cor=87 Which fashion designer are you most like? http://www.seventeen.com/fun/quizzes/fashion/which-fashion-designer-are-you?click=main_sr