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Fashion Sketching
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Introduction

Every person desires to look good and wants to feel ‘accepted’ in society and for

this reason everyone try to follow the fashion of the time. It’s just a style of living, the

style of looking different.

Though, we know that to be updated and to go with society is a need to bring

some kind o f changes in our outlook and physica l attitude s which makes us confident

and admirable.

Fashion is about expressing your identity, showing someone who you are through

your fashion choices and using your clothes to tell someone something about you. And

for this reason people go to fashion designers to s ketch them dresses according to their

taste and it helps them to show a c oncept of dress that they will share it, so with that

they will show their personality.

Sketching gives you a basic outline and concept tha t can be shared. Imagine you

need a dress for a wedding. You can sketch what dress should be before to sew a

tailor so in that way his mind will be clearly how to sew it.
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Fashion Illustrator

Fashion illustrator are people who love fashion and study about it, they sketch

designs becasuse it is the most important skill. They presents their collection and

promote their lables, they know how to experiment effectively with colour, how to use

art materials and equipment.

But to be a fashion illustrator you should have a creative eye, they need to have a

strong sense of creativity and artistic vision. They give a very pleasing look making their

creation unique and make it look better than the best which is there already.

Fashion illustrator explores how artists find I nspiration in th e world around them and

how they use the inspiration in the creation of their work. I believe that fashion

designers should take e sketchnotes with themselves because they don’t know where

can have an inspiration to sketch a mode l because in that moment you can do

something magical that you may never have the inspiration to do it again. Because the

inspiration can be found through tavel, music, television, film, museum and gallery visits.

Illustrations are in a huge connection with art movements, f ashion trends and

photography. Beauty canons dectate the rules for illustrators bu t there is always space

for flights of imagination. However there is no other way for fashion to be produced

without Illustrations. That means until the fashion exists, the fashion Illustrations will

appear again and again…

Rene Bouche

One of the most famous fashion illustrators is Rene Bouche. He had a firm and

accurate drawing style that derived from strict observation, and his Image often

appeared spread across double-page Vogue editorials. Bouche had a strong sense of

colour and he passed on his knowledge of fashion illustration students at the Parson’s

School of Design in New York, where he taught during the forties.

Bouche is not one to portray the bellhop or the country maid, but flies straight to

the inmost circle of society, where the crustiest tycoon really do unbend, all wives are

beautiful, and well-tailored bohemians are welcome. I n a sense, he adores the lions and

tigresses of a wordls often so polite tha it Is rude, and so frantic that it is bored.
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Fashion Sketch

Why we should be sketching?

What a sketch does is give you an idea of where the design might be headed. Sketch helps

you to develop a concept quickly, gives you a basic outline than can be s hared.

Sketching does a variety of things when it come to the creative process. It is one of the

most purest forms of brainstorming for designers because you can create a quick, simple,

inexpensive visuals that can be shared with others.

Fashion sketches are the first product that an apparel maufactorer selects before designing a

complete product. These sketches are useful in making selections between the right fabric and

right material that are a must for the c reation of any product.

For an artist, sketching is the most uninhabited and f ree-est form of the creative process.

Sketching is an ar t form in itself and gives insight into the artist’s soul. While sketchbook

journals are often shared, they can also be kept personal like a diary.

Also from the sketching other people can understand what he wants, what he needs , or the

lack of things from his design because the designer transcribes his ideas into real shapes and

forms in the shape of sketches. So without the drawing, the thought of the structure will still

be vague and folks canno t understand it.

Not many people e realize that the drawin g skill is also important. The custom made should

be able to draw sketches in particulars. If they want to be able to do so, t hey need to

understand human anatomy.

Types of fashion sketching

Sketching plays a major role in designing to preview and visualize our thoughts and make

decisions before going to actual clothing to reduce any wastage.

Three types of fashion sketching

1. Quick Fashion Sketching

2. Rendered Fashion Sketches

3. Flat Fashion Sketches

Quick fashion sketching

They ar e rough sketches to doodle on sketchbook to generate ideas. These could be used to

give options to your client. Quick sketche are basically lik e one minute sketches to put Ideas on

paper which are very much used almost every single day. Develop a quick hand of sketching is

very helpful the design process.

Rendere fashion sketches

These are the one s which designers are pretty much aware and spends lots of time for

perfection. But they use these fashion sketches very less! Rendered fashion sketches despict the

virtual product along with fabric and all details. These are mainly used to give previews to the

buyer or press releases or look-book to give sneak-peak entire collection or to make presales of

the product.
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Flat fashion sketch

The most important fashion sketches that plays major role in producing a garment, depicted

in flat with all the details like seams, zippers, trims, style lines, stitch lines and t echnical

hardware of garment. Flat f ashion sketches allows the seamstress and production unit to

understand th e design and acts made into line-sheets and then proceeds to buyer.
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Fashion Sketching Materials

Vikki Yau’s Fashion-Sketching Tool Kit

1. Fashionary s ketchbook

2. Drawing pencils

3. Pencil sharpners and erasers

4. Fine black pens

5. Watercolor set

6. Markers

7. Colored pencils

Fashionary sketchbook

Fashionary sketchbooks are combined with extensive fashion information and figure

templates. The templates are barely visible, which makes It easy to sketch designs over them.

And this sketchbooks have two sizes: A4 and A5.

Drawing pencils

Best pencils for sketching basic outlines are : H, HB, 2B, and 4B.

Pencil sharpeners and erasers

It’s very importan t to draw fin lines. To keep sharp, the best sharpeners is metal sharpener

rather than a platic one . As for erasers Radar, Staedtler and Pink Pearl brands are good options.
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Fine black pens

For fine-tuning and adding detailed work to sketches, such as drawing prints and patterns,

desogners use Faber Castell 8 PITT artist pens in black. Also Pilot pens are a n ice alternative

Watercolor set

After sketching with pencils, they can apply watercolors to their designs. To get paint from a

pan, they use to puck up a color. Then, put it on your palette and mix a variety of colors to

get the ones they want and t hen they can add color to their sketches.

Markers

Fashion markers combine well with other media such as pencils, ink pens and graphite.

Colored pencils

Colored pencils ar e a dry medium that are easy t o use and relativel y cheap .But wit h colored

pencils it’s difficult to color larg e areas quickly.

Drawing a croquis

In the fashion world, new designs are presented in the form of hand-drawn sketches before

they’re actually cut and sewn. First you draw a croquis, the model-shaped figure that serves as

the base of the sketch. The point is not to draw a realistic-looking figure, but a blank canvas of

sorts on which to display illustrations of dresses, skirts, blouses, accessories and the res t o f your

creations. Adding color and details like ruffles, seam and buttons help s to brings you ideas to life

1) Starting a sketch

1. Gather materials

2. Decide on a pose for your croquis

3. Consider alternate methods for creating a croquis

2) Drawing a Croquis

1. Draw the balance line

2. Star drawing the pelvic area first

3. Draw the torso and shoulders

4. Sketch the neck and head

5. Fill in the legs

6. Finish with the feet and arms

3) Drawing clothe s and accessories

1. Illustrate your original design

2. Sketch the clothes boldly

3. Finalize the drawing with s hading, ink and color.

Conclusion
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The story of fashion is o ne of change. Different drawing styles have emerged encouraged

by the development of new media.

Some people think design is all pretty flourishes but it’s not about a lot more thanthat:

design encompasses not just the visual appereance of a thing, but also the intent behind it,

and the experience of being exposed to it.

“Art should be like a good game of baseball-non-monumental, democratic and humble.

With no hits, no runs, and no errors at the bottom of the ninth, we know something

historica l is happening. Good art l eaves no r esidue”(Siah Armajani, 1985)

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