Fashion IllustrationKey Concepts:
Essential Questions:
Activity 1: Look at examples of famous fashion illustrator’s work in their “lookbooks” online. Look at the tutorials below (click on the bolded words). Then look at contemporary fashion illustrator’s work, especially the work of Hayden Williams.
- Media and techniques
- Traditional and digital designs
- Fashion Figure
- Proportion
- The “croquis”
- Rendering fabric
- Contemporary fashion illustrators
Essential Questions:
- What techniques do fashion illustrators use?
- What influences their designs?
- How do fashion designers work in the real world?
- How does daily life inspire artists?
Activity 1: Look at examples of famous fashion illustrator’s work in their “lookbooks” online. Look at the tutorials below (click on the bolded words). Then look at contemporary fashion illustrator’s work, especially the work of Hayden Williams.
- Fashion Sketching Tutorials
- What is a fashion croquis?
- Drawing fashion faces in illustrations
- How to Draw Fashion
- more on how to draw fashion
- Drawing bodies
- About Fashion Illustrators
- Fashion Design
- Fashion sketching
- Fashion Details and Accessories Booklet
- Links to programs for kids to design fashions on the computer
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Activity 2: Fashion Figure Proportions: Drawing your own Croquis
1. First explain to students that humans are usually drawn with the equivalent of 8 “heads” tall, but fashion design does nine in order to elongate the legs to show the fashions more. (This is why models are tall and thin, and Barbie was made as she was in order to mimic the fashion illustrations). Teach the nine segments by having students fold a 8 ½ x 11 paper in half lengthwise, and then open and create lines in 1 inch segments down the paper. Label them as shown in image below, leaving the top and bottom segmentsuntouched. This will be their standard way to begin drawing croquis from now on to keep proportions correct.
2. Create a figure of basic geometric shapes with the correct proportions.
3. Next create a more fully rendered human figure using the 9 segments system, include the labels on the paper. (Start out every croquis in this way from now on.)
Step 1 Set up 8 1/2 x 11 paper with 1 line down center of paper, then horizontal lines every one inch down the paper. Add two dotted lines where indicated, and add labels. Always start out your croquis with this template until you get used to drawing in proportion.
1. First explain to students that humans are usually drawn with the equivalent of 8 “heads” tall, but fashion design does nine in order to elongate the legs to show the fashions more. (This is why models are tall and thin, and Barbie was made as she was in order to mimic the fashion illustrations). Teach the nine segments by having students fold a 8 ½ x 11 paper in half lengthwise, and then open and create lines in 1 inch segments down the paper. Label them as shown in image below, leaving the top and bottom segmentsuntouched. This will be their standard way to begin drawing croquis from now on to keep proportions correct.
2. Create a figure of basic geometric shapes with the correct proportions.
3. Next create a more fully rendered human figure using the 9 segments system, include the labels on the paper. (Start out every croquis in this way from now on.)
Step 1 Set up 8 1/2 x 11 paper with 1 line down center of paper, then horizontal lines every one inch down the paper. Add two dotted lines where indicated, and add labels. Always start out your croquis with this template until you get used to drawing in proportion.
Step 2. Add geometric shapes to get a sense of where the body parts fall on the nine segments, and their proportions. Note: the shoulders are two heads wide. Balance body on each side of the center line.
Step 2. Add geometric shapes to get a sense of where the body parts fall on the nine segments, and their proportions. Note: the shoulders are two heads wide. Balance body on each side of the center line.
Step 3. Now draw the human figure with curves. Emphasize that arms and legs are NOT tubes. Notice the undulations in arms, legs, and ankles.