Fashion Illustrations

Fashion Illustrations 

The key to great illustrations for fashion design lies in a good knowledge of the hu- man physique and the mastery of various drawing techniques.
The observation and study of the human body is vital to every fashion designer , the delicate curves and structures are the origin of all apparel and the perfect setting and surroundings to present them.
Traditionally illustrations were made with pencil, ink and watercolours. Today mark- ers and pens can do the trick as well and of course adobe Photoshop.
It all starts with Skeletons, If you understand how the human body is constructed the rest will be a walk in the park and you can illustrate all sorts of poses, stands and materials.
Fashion sketching class will be all about experimentation and refining your drawing abilities, your knowledge of basic figures and fashion stands will be put to a test. The grey pencil sketches will come live .

Skeletons

Skeletons 

The human body is literally a big mass of water and protein hanging in and around a calcium frame.  This frame is the skeleton, made out of many different bones. These bones are the key to drawing the human figure, they are simple to move around and manipulate. We start every pose with a rough sketch of the skeleton, it will reduce the risk to draw to big for the paper and at the same time keep the overall figure in the right proportions before we start the more elaborate drawing of details and clothes etc..

The right page side shows how we construct a simple and rough sketch of the skeletal pose and then add body mass and ‘muscles’ to get the final pose --

Starting with the shoulder line then adding a spine and Hip bones at the same width, roughly sketched rip case and a neck + head. After that we can sketch arms and legs, the elbows are  is in the middle between hip and .