I Can Draw Fashion

Step-by-Step Techniques, Styling Tips and Effects

Robyn Neild

• Publisher: Arcturus
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781838573980
• eBook ISBN: 9781398806399
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Fashion Design

Learn how to create wonderful fashion illustrations with this inspiring and practical workbook, written by leading fashion illustrator Robyn Neild. I Can Draw Fashion is a great book for anyone wanting to create professional-standard fashion illustrations with expert guidance. Using step-by-step exercises, this full-color drawing book takes you from initial sketches to finished designs. Learn how to:
• Adapt anatomy to draw stylized fashion figures
• Create dramatic silhouettes and poses
• Design clothing and accessories
• Draw different fabrics and textures
• Represent different kinds of moods and styles. Featuring useful practice grids to create your own catwalk collections, this book is a perfect introduction to the art of fashion illustration. ABOUT THE SERIES: I Can Draw teaches a variety of specialist drawing styles, aimed at beginners or those wishing to hone their skills. With step-by-step instructions and practice grids to try out new techniques, these drawing guides help artists bring their ideas into actuality.

DRAWING FABRICS

I’m going to show you various ways of rendering fabrics. Each medium has its own qualities that work best for certain fabrics. Watercolors and pastels are great for fur, for example, but fat marker pens are not – although bright fun fur might look good rendered this way. Experiment to see what works for you.

CHECKS AND PINSTRIPES

Here we look at cloth used for coats and suits, such as tweed, plaid, herringbone and houndstooth. The patterns in these woven fabrics usually follow a grid, so pencil this in before you start your design.

HERRINGBONE

Pencil in a grid to use as a guide. With a fine-tipped marker pen, draw a diagonal line or two in each square.

In the next column draw diagonally in the opposite direction to create a mirror image. Just keep repeating this pattern for a herringbone effect.

HOUNDSTOOTH

Using a fine-tipped marker pen, color in alternative squares horizontally and vertically.

Draw a diagonal line in the blank squares in each vertical row.

Do the same in the blank squares in each horizontal row.

CHECKS

Use the same first stage as for houndstooth.

Fill in the alternative blank horizontal squares with diagonal lines.

On the vertical, draw diagonal lines in between the squares of solid color only.

Man’s checked suit

For this windowpane check suit, rough in the lines in pencil. Curve the horizontal lines downwards where they meet the edge of the figure. The exception to this rule is the right leg, which is receding from view, so the lines go up.

Woman’s pinstriped suit

When drawing pinstripes, take time to work out the direction of the stripes. The collars should be angled differently to each other and the jacket front.

Use a mid-grey marker pen for the fabric and a chalk pencil for the stripe.

CHIFFON LACE

Lace with a floral pattern on a fine net base can be beaded for extra embellishment. The fabric is drawn over a skin tone with soft crosshatching, or you could use the rubbing technique over textured paper.

You will need

* smooth watercolor paper

* black fine-tipped pen

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Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Introduction
• Different media
• Body Basics
• Poses
• Faces And Other Features
• Drawing Fashion
• Drawing Fabrics
• Copyright