Essential Fashion Illustration

Essential Fashion Illustration
Author: Maite Lafuente
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781592533312

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.

Essential Fashion Illustration: Poses

Essential Fashion Illustration: Poses
Author: Maite Lafuente
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1610601696

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.

Essential Fashion Illustration: Digital

Essential Fashion Illustration: Digital
Author: Loreto Streeter
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1610581040

Essential Fashion Illustration: Digital is a complete, in-depth tutorial that guides readers step-by-step through the digital techniques typically employed in fashion design and illustration. Through dozens of practical exercises, readers improve their skills using tools such as graphics tablets, scanners, cameras, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, vectorizing, adding color, and applying textures, transparencies, collages, and patterns. Each of the exercises also includes definitions for the technical terms used as well as handy tips from leading fashion designers. EssentialDigital Fashion Illustration is an essential guide for amateurs or beginners who want to make a start in the world of fashion illustration and design, as well as for professionals already established in the sector who want to improve and polish their techniques.

Essential Fashion Illustration: Color and Medium

Essential Fashion Illustration: Color and Medium
Author: Estel Vilaseca
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781592534302

More than 250 illustrations illustrate the significance and creative use of color in fashion illustration From the first rough sketch pursuing the development of an idea into fabric choice and draping style, fashion design is an exercise in imagination and problem solving. When it comes to documenting the evolution of fashion as culture, we could safely say that illustration has become fashion design's number one ambassador, covering a visual timeline of materials, techniques and styles that have graced the fashion world over the past century. This book features more than 250 illustrations. Practical exercises will guide you through creative activities focused on contemporary fashion illustration. The exercises include suggestions and tips, and are executed by practicing contemporary illustrators. Instruction provided will allow designers to improve their drawing skills and communicate their vision effectively through a range of illustration mediums that incorporate color as a contributing element for both style and texture. With this special attention to color and how it is perceived the illustrations highlight how subtle nuances or striking changes can occur when rendered using different techniques in gouache, watercolor, pencil, pastels or digital, and how these materials can transform the feel and mood of each illustration.

Creative Fashion Illustration

Creative Fashion Illustration
Author: Stuart McKenzie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1472583507

Fashion illustration is skilful and inventive, and the best fashion illustrators can fulfil a brief creatively using their own unique approach. Visually-led and extremely accessible, this book is the go-to resource for anyone wanting to develop their own style. Easy-to-follow exercises are designed to build confidence and encourage experimentation as readers develop essential skills and learn simple and effective tips and tricks. With concise, accessible chapters on topics such as proportion, movement, line, shape and volume as well as sections on tricky areas such as hands and feet, Creative Fashion Illustration is essential reading for anyone looking to enhance their basic drawing skills. Whether coming to fashion illustration for the very first time, a student looking to develop their techniques and expand their portfolio, or even a more experienced illustrator looking for fresh ideas, this book is the ideal guide to imaginative fashion illustration that will stand out from the crowd.

Creative Fashion Drawing

Creative Fashion Drawing
Author: Noel Chapman
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1782128891

This stylish introduction to fashion drawing is aimed both at practicing designers who want to brush up their skills, and at wannabe designers and fashion enthusiasts who want to learn how to design, draw and illustrate fashion from scratch. User-friendly, accessible and stylish, this book is an ideal guide to the world of fashion illustration and design. Fully illustrated throughout, this book contains examples from a range of practising fashion designers and illustrators, and step-by-step illustrations showing how to get the best results. Beginning with the materials and equipment that readers will need, the book goes on to explain how to get inspiration and ideas and use a sketchbook to develop design projects, before moving on to the process of drawing fashion figures. Readers are guided through the process of drawing fashion figures, with step-by-step illustrations showing proportions, men and women, and a range of different poses (standing, sitting, walking etc). Noel Chapman is a fashion author, lecturer, consultant and designer who has designed clothes for Urban Outfitters, Tommy Hilfiger, Quiksilver and Galeries Lafayette amongst others. Judith Cheek is a fashion illustrator who trained at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and has worked for clients including M&S, the Conran Group, Viyella and Littlewoods.

9 Heads

9 Heads
Author: Nancy Riegelman
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780133156935

9 Heads' is a clear and comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of fashion drawing in black and white. It demonstrates that drawing can be learned by the application of a set of rules and guidelines, together with commitment and practice.

New Icons of Fashion Illustration

New Icons of Fashion Illustration
Author: Tony Glenville
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781780671048

Fashion illustration is and always has been about far more than pretty drawings of pretty dresses. This lavish celebration of today's leading artists in the field showcases the timeless craft and amazing diversity that characterize the genre. From David Downton to Cecilia Carlstedt and from Jason Brooks to Jordi Labanda, 28 masters of fashion illustration from across the world are featured, one by one, in a grand tour of the best work currently produced. While some illustrators create daringly bold graphics, others prefer delicate watercolours and ink drawings. Throughout the volume, both hi-tech multimedia effects and traditional drawing skills are given pride of place, with many of the artists using a mixture of techniques. Lively commentary accompanies the images, while interviews with each illustrator provide further insight into their influences and methods.

The Encyclopedia of Fashion Illustration Techniques

The Encyclopedia of Fashion Illustration Techniques
Author: Carol A. Nunnelly
Publisher: Running Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780762435760

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.

Essential Fashion Illustration: Color and Medium

Essential Fashion Illustration: Color and Medium
Author: Estel Vilaseca
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1610601424

More than 250 illustrations illustrate the significance and creative use of color in fashion illustration From the first rough sketch pursuing the development of an idea into fabric choice and draping style, fashion design is an exercise in imagination and problem solving. When it comes to documenting the evolution of fashion as culture, we could safely say that illustration has become fashion design's number one ambassador, covering a visual timeline of materials, techniques and styles that have graced the fashion world over the past century. This book features more than 250 illustrations. Practical exercises will guide you through creative activities focused on contemporary fashion illustration. The exercises include suggestions and tips, and are executed by practicing contemporary illustrators. Instruction provided will allow designers to improve their drawing skills and communicate their vision effectively through a range of illustration mediums that incorporate color as a contributing element for both style and texture. With this special attention to color and how it is perceived the illustrations highlight how subtle nuances or striking changes can occur when rendered using different techniques in gouache, watercolor, pencil, pastels or digital, and how these materials can transform the feel and mood of each illustration.