Fashion Design Drawing Course
- ISBN13: 9780764124730
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A superb reference book and an ideal instructional textbook for classroom use, this beautifully illustrated guide is organized into units that reflect required courses at leading design colleges. Twenty step-by-step exercises cover methods of finding inspiration, developing observation techniques, and creating fashion drawings in both color and black-and-white media. Separate sections are devoted to getting started and understanding figure proportions, planning and … More >>
Unlike other fashion design books, the authors do not teach figure drawing and clothing. They start out with a visit to a museum where you need to gather information, then find a theme and make four sketches. The individual lessons build upon each other so that the beginner can easily follow. The authors require you to be active, go out and find your sources of information and inspiration. You learn to do what fashion designers do: look at architecture and find ideas for a new fashion line, look at flowers and find a color scheme, etc.
The book has 24 lessons that lead the student of fashion design from the first sketch to the fashion show. It’s a good book if you are looking for a guided course that helps you to improve and evaluate your designs.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is awful, especially given it’s title. Drawing is not discussed in the book in any meaningful way. the cover is dreadfully misrepresentative of what is inside. The drawing styles presented are horribly dated from a horrible fashion Illustration era. These 80’s – 90’s looks are awful to look at and disproportioned.
Very little if anything can be learned from this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book was not at all helpful for new fashion illustrators. I would consider my drawing skills above average. I mainly do technical designs and decided that I wanted try fashion design for my portfolio. So I borrowed this book and another book from the library and was very dissapointed. The cover drew me in, but the pages were not instructional. The book goes through the traditional 9 heads figure and the help pretty much stops there. This book is bombarded with really abstract drawings and HINTS on ideas for fashion designs. What a waste! I’m glad that I borrowed it first!!
The other book I checked out was a book by Bina Abling “Fashion Sketchbook” from the 1980’s and that was far more helpful because it gave step by step instructions and illustrations. It went beyond poses and into garment designs and it was about 20 years old!! The current edition is kinda pricey but I’m going to invest in it. Anyway, if you want to learn real fashion illustration I would NOT invest in this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book gives much fuel for imagination-lots of color, painting, prints, artwork- less practical information such as flat drawing, measuring, etc for actual production. The 4 pages devoted to “working drawings” were too brief and examples to small to read.
Rating: 3 / 5
I am an aspiring fashion designer and this is the first related book i have purchased. I am not in college and it has been helpful in getting me started. It guides you through step by step on how to get lines started and color schemes by giving you assignments and making sure you achieved what the chapter was teaching you. I thought it was a great book. I hope to find lots more books as helpful.
Rating: 5 / 5