Fashion & Interior Design

For courses in Fashion Drawing, Design, and/or Presentation.

This book focuses on the development of a fashion croquis—a nude sketch of a fashion figure, created in any media the artist/designer deems necessary, used as a template on which the designer will draw garments. It is intended not only as a primer for aspiring designers, but also as a reference book that reflects the ongoing changes that face today's designers and the resulting need for increased agility in drawing and accurate visual communication skills.

• Emphasis on superior drawing skills—Illustrates the advantage within the industry and the global marketplace.

  • Prepares students to succeed in the field. Ex.___

• Explains that a designer's statement is an ongoing process based on understanding the human form, its parts, and its movement, along with experimentation, personal experience and the constant implementation of drawing skills.

  • Develops design students' basic visual statement. Ex.___

• Guides readers through the figure development process—From skeleton to muscle, gesture to stance.

  • Helps students develop an understanding of how the body is structured and how it moves beneath clothing, considering the skeletal and musculature makeup, gesture, stance and mass. Ex.___

• A methodology for figure development through the use of geometric forms.

  • Allows students to complete illustrations by relating drawing basics to one another. Ex.___

• A comprehensive photo library—Depicting both male and female figures in front, back, and side positions.

  • Gives students of fashion design and illustration an extensive photo resource. Ex.___

• Images of the human form in standing positions.

  • Allows would-be designers to illustrate their ideas to their best advantage and manipulate the figures to accommodate their personal design statement and presentation goals. Ex.___

• Outlines several different types of fashion illustration, including: Editorial—which convey a feeling and a mood, and are extraordinarily exaggerated. Retail—designed to show the customer exactly how she or he will look or feel in the specific garment, with the appropriate accessories. Specification—flat, often computer-generated, and used for production and/or marketing purposes to communicate to manufacturing sites or store location: Designer sketching—which relay attitude, silhouette, fabrication and specific details to a variety of individuals in the production process.

  • Shows students that the responsibility of the designer to transmit the correct information is fundamental. Ex.___

Acknowledgements.


Introduction.

I. UNDERSTANDING THE FASHION FIGURE.

II. DEVELOPING THE FASHION CROQUIS.

III. LIBRARY OF PHOTOGRAPHS.

Fashion Design (Fashion)
Fashion Illustration (Fashion)

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