This step-by-step book is focused on teaching how to develop contemporary drawing skills to allow designers to communicate their vision effectively.

Fashion Illustration for Designers captures the various moods and mixes of global influences visually, demonstrating how to draw all the various fashion figures for men, women and children, and to aid in understanding the subtleties of past, present, and future fashion layered together and presented as style.

Fashion Illustration for Designers provides methods for organizing design and illustration tasks, and information about the best tools to not only get ideas on paper effectively, but also to dazzle an audience with the sophistication of the approach.

Contents

1. Gather Your Tools: Handtools
2. Fashion Women: Creating Your Current Muse: Fashion Heads. Fashion Hands and Arms. Legs, Legs, Legs—and Feet. Developing a Fashion Pose
3. Clothing Your Muse: Overview: Clothing, Couture, and Essential Construction. Swimgirls. Trousers and Tops. Dresses and Skirts. Tailoring/Suits. Fall Layering. Eveningwear
4. Drawing Fashion Men: Male Heads. Develop a Pose
5. Dressing the Fashion Male: Swimguys. Casual Guys. Tailoring and Suits
6. Kids, Kids, Kids: Infants to Toddlers. Preschool Kids: Three- to Five-Year-Olds. Six- to Nine-Year-Olds. “Tweens” (Ten- to Twelve-Year-Olds). Teens (Thirteen- to Seventeen-Year-Olds)
7. Designing and Illustrating a Group
8. Computer Notes
9. Color, Glorious Color!

Index

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