Draw Fashion Now: Techniques, Inspiration, and Ideas for Illustrating and Imagining Your Designs shows how to render figures, fabrics, and garments, and develop a personal style of sketching.

Find your unique fashion illustration style with Draw Fashion Now! Draw Fashion Now is a combination how-to guide and workbook that teaches the best techniques for illustrating and envisioning 21st-century fashion. Professional fashion illustrator Danielle Meder shares lessons she's learned over fourteen seasons of sketching fashion and style in every fashion capital, offering readers solid illustration techniques that demystify the enigma of fashion "attitude." Start by learning the development and rendering process of contemporary male and female figures, each in three essential fashion poses--runway, street style, and red carpet. Then, master basic sketching through rendering garments and fabrics directly on the figure in a range of mediums, both traditional and digital with plenty of blank space throughout to sketch and draw alongside the given examples! Become an expert at "fashion on the fly" quick sketches for when inspiration strikes while viewing runway or street style. Two beautiful, sophisticated paper dolls are also included, with contemporary, high-fashion wardrobes by critically acclaimed designers to dress them up! Draw Fashion Now is a uniquely creative and interactive learning experience for fashion illustrators, designers, and enthusiasts at all levels of experience.

A step-by-step guide for young people who enjoy clothes and want to learn the tools to help them express their fashion ideas on paper Based on successful fashion-drawing workshops held at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum, here are practical drawing exercises that really work. Bold design, color-coded sections, and drawings that will translate to a sheet of paper make this a helpful and inspiring resource. The book begins by looking at the sketchbooks of past and present designers to see how they developed their signature drawing styles. Then there are sections that show how to create a fashion template or croquis, including fashion proportions and how to turn a stick figure into a full figure; how to draw skirts, pants, jackets, and dresses on your fashion template; and how to develop your own collection, including the creation of complete outfits and seasonal looks. There's a section that looks at the design process from creating a mood board and following a brief to developing a collection as well as a reference section with lists of technical terms, garment styles, and fabric types.

Presents twenty-four lessons based on design school courses, teaching every step of the fashion design drawing process from finding inspiration to giving one's presentation flair.

From the clothes to the pose, here's everything you need to create fierce fashion illustrations. Create fabulous fashion moments! Drawing on 20+ years of fashion illustrating experience, Jennifer Lilya uses acrylic paint and black ink to show you how to draw the clothes, poses and attitudes behind runway-worthy art. Follow her expert tips, techniques and step-by-step illustrations to draw girls that rock the look, from flirty and fun to strong and sexy. Illustrated with tons of gorgeous examples, this guide covers everything from assembling your tools and mixing skin tones to the secrets behind natural looking poses and proper fabric drape. Jennifer uses acrylic paint and black ink to create her happy illustrations, and shows you how, too. But you can follow along with markers, pencils or whatever you like! Find out how to: • Draw standing and walking poses full of attitude and movement. • Use highlights, shadows and line quality to liven up your illustrations. • Evoke a variety of facial expressions using loose indications of eyes, lips and noses. • Create the look of batik, plaid, leather, lace, tweed and other fabrics. • Pull it all together into complete fashion illustrations. Pulsing with style, color and energy, this super-sassy guide will help you move your fashion art forward. Give your girls the spirit and spunk they need to enchant the crowd as they cruise the runway, hit the town or strike a pose.

How to draw fashion figure: Essential figure drawing techniques for women's wear designers Draw a fashion figure from scratch. Learn how to change any figure template by making simple transformations. Save time and effort on the fashion figure drawing process. The book is a collection of techniques and methods which allow you to: - draw accurate fashion figure with less stress and with minimum effort - modify proportions and body style of the figure - create multiple figures of various styles from the same croquis No previous figure drawing knowledge and skill is required for this book. Beginners: Jump start your drawing process: skip tedious typical figure drawing routine. Find the method which works best for you. Develop your drawing style with practice. Professionals: Explore the flexibility and effectiveness of methods described in the book. Practice the techniques of converting one style into another: mix and match practical methods described in the book. With this book you will learn: How to draw figure styles and proportions o for plus size fashion figures o for maternity designs o for runway model figures inspired by “haute couture” style o for fashion design projects with “nine heads tall” croquis How to create a basic female fashion figure from the beginning, without using any templates: o learn “cutting method” create a fashion figure using paper cutouts o learn “freehand drawing method” create a fashion figure by drawing with a pencil o learn how to manipulate figure by adjusting cutouts into different proportions o learn how to modify poses and movements in the figure template o learn how to combine cutting and freehand drawing methods for better results Book offers additional resources on: · face drawing · hands drawing · gallery oh hairstyles Before you buy the book, please make a note that: · The book is for womenswear designers: there is no children’s figure or male figure study in the book. · The book focuses on essential, standard, fashion design relevant poses and movements. · The book is all about drawing a figure: we do not study apparel drawing in this book. If you are looking for resources on apparel drawing use other Fashion Croquis books from the same book series. · We do not offer figure drawing templates in this book. This book helps you to create your figure template. If you are looking for pre-drawn, ready for use figure templates for fashion, we suggest you use other Fashion Croquis books from the same book series. About the author: Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer and visual artist: the creator of the Fashion Croquis book series. Book condense years of teaching experience and illustration practice. Irina’s classic figure drawing training combined with professional fashion design education and experience makes her an effective teacher for fashion figure drawing. 20 + years of teaching college-level courses on Fashion illustration and Figure drawing made this book possible. The book “How to draw fashion figure” by Irina V. Ivanova offers you a collection of practical, easy to use, original figure drawing techniques which you do not find in a typical fashion drawing book.

A5 size (148mm x 210mm, or 5-1/2" x 8"). 192 pages. Elastic band place holder. Ribbon bookmark. Acid-free/archival paper. Binding lies flat for ease of use. Inside back cover pocket. Create your own original designs with this sleek Fashion Sketchbook! Packed with fashion-proportional figures in varied poses, this journal will help bring your inspirations to life. The figures (called croquis from the French meaning to sketch, rough out, to crunch) will not show up when photocopied or scanned. From understated effects to outrageous accents, let this Fashion Sketchbook help you render your vision. There are also templates for shoes and hats in the back of the journal, plus helpful industry terms and descriptions, size equivalent information, measuring tips, descriptions of basic garments, and more.