Fashion Designer Clothes Drawing

Design Your Own Clothes Online. All Custom Clothing Is Made With Love In Downtown Los Angeles. Imagine What You Can Design. Let's start 2020 off right, so here's another tutorial for you guys, this time we gonna try to learn how to draw clothes. Enjoy, Natalia 🧡 ️ART SUPPLIES US. I Draw Fashion shows you how to draw fashion sketches for beginners. Illustrated step-by-step tutorials, drawing tips, free croquis and body templates. How to draw fashion figures How to draw clothes, fabrics and patterns Fashion design contests and more. Improve your skills & create unique fashionable drawings! Description This course is about being able to turn a flat drawing or sketch into real looking clothing using 3D software. You will get lectures that cover tool and concepts along with Marvelous designer files of the final output and textures used. I would however recommend to look around the web for your own textures for more creativity. To draw like a fashion designer, sketch really tall and thin models for all of your designs. Don't worry about making them look realistic since the focus will be on the fashion designs themselves. You don't even need to include a head or hands if you don't want to! As you're drawing, try to use long, thin, curvey lines.

If I was going to pursue a career as an artist, I would focus on either photography or fashion design. You have seen my passion for photography through my post on taking better iPhone photos, but as a younger teenager, I used to be OBSESSED with fashion design. I took so many classes and did so much research in order to pursue this passion of mine, and it didn’t just involve drawing clothes on models.

There are many different parts to the fashion industry that are just as important as the design process. There’s the textile industry and choosing materials for clothing, the economic aspect, the runway shows, the media aspect through mostly magazines, like Marie Claire and Vogue, and so much more. So in this post, I’m going to outline a basic process that a company or designer would go through to get an item of clothing from just a drawing on a piece of paper to the rack at mid to higher end store like Calvin Klein or Tommy Hilfiger. This process varies from designer to designer, but it generally will be similar amongst most labels.

Generally, a designer will release clothing in a collection of a multitude of outfits or pieces that has a similar theme or feeling. So the first step in creating a collection would be to establish the feeling or the imagery that will dictate the full collection. Sometimes a designer will find inspiration from a specific place, fabric, building, music piece, or anything else and the feeling will be developed from there, using an imagery board or mood board. It’s also important for designers to research what kinds of colors, fabrics, patterns and fits will be popular in the upcoming season.

You can really see the themes that each mood board is going for. The next step would be to start actually designing the clothing. Many designers prefer to work in drawings or on CAD programs, but some will go straight to form and drape different fabrics on dress forms. This also depends on the type of clothing the designer is trying to create. Designers will create tons of sketches and designs and then refine them down to the strongest ones.

The sketches then turn into “flats”, which are drawings of the clothing that are completely two-dimensional and show all the stitching and how the pattern should be cut. These are really technical, precise drawings with measurement specifications so that the manufacturers know exactly how to produce the garments.

At the same time as the design process is going on, the designer will be trying to find appropriate fabrics and materials to use for the clothing being designed. This isn’t a simple process either because most of the time the fabric has to be created in huge amounts to fit the designer’s needs. Different fabrics work for different situations. For example, heavy fabrics like tweed or wool, work better for nice pants or skirts while light fabrics like silk or batiste are better for blouses and shirts.

Also, when the designers need a specific color, the fabric has to be specially dyed at a facility through a company like Pantone.

Then the clothing is actually manufactured for the fashion show. A lot of the time, for mid to high-end designers, a lookbook will be created that has the entire collection’s worth of drawings, flats, pictures, and fabric swatches. This booklet will be given to retailers/consumers at the fashion show, especially at higher end shows, so that after the show they can purchase the specific garments they want in the future. This happens when the company doesn’t necessarily want to make the garment if nobody is going to buy it.

This is a very basic outline of what happens, but as you can see, it can get quite complicated and definitely has a major business aspect to it. A lot of this information is what I remember from when I used to take fashion design classes, but this website also really helped me out for the stuff I forgot, if you want to check it out. There’s a lot of cool articles about the fashion industry in there, and even a 7 part series on the best decisions to make when creating your own fashion business. Happy surfing!

George Barbier fashion plate titled La Belle Dame sans Merci, plate 47, from Gazette du Bon Ton, 1921, issue 6

Fashion Illustration is the art of communicating fashion ideas in a visual form that originates with illustration, drawing and painting and also known as Fashion sketching. It is mainly used by fashion designers to brainstorm their ideas on paper or digitally. Fashion sketching plays a major role in designing to preview and visualize designs before sewing actual clothing.^[1]

History[edit]

Fashion illustration has been around for nearly 500 years. Ever since clothes have been in existence, and there has been a need to translate an idea or image into a fashion illustration. Not only do fashion illustrations show a representation or design of a garment but they also serve as a form of art. Fashion illustration shows the presence of hand^{[further explanation needed]} and is said^{[by whom?]} to be a visual luxury.^[2]

More recently, there has been a decline of fashion illustration in the late 1930s when Vogue began to replace its celebrated illustrated covers with photographic images. This was a major turning point in the fashion industry. Laird Borrelli, author of Fashion Illustration Now states,

Fashion Illustration has gone from being one of the sole means of fashion communication to having a very minor role. The first photographic cover of Vogue was a watershed in the history of fashion illustration and a watershed mark of its decline. Photographs, no matter how altered or retouched, will always have some association with reality and by association truth. I like to think of them [fashion Illustrations] as prose poems and having more fictional narratives. They are more obviously filtered through an individual vision than photos. Illustration lives on, but in the position of a poor relative to the fashion.,^[3]

Fashion illustration differs from the fashion plate in that a fashion plate is a reproduction of an image, such as a drawing or photograph, for a magazine or book. Fashion illustrations can be made into fashion plate, but a fashion plate is not itself an original work of illustration.

Process of Fashion Illustration[edit]

Designers use mediums such as gouache, marker, pastel, and ink to convey the details of garments and the feeling invoked by the artist. With the rise of digital art, some artists have begun to create illustrations using Adobe Photoshop. Artists frequently begin with a sketch of a figure called a croquis, and build a look on top of it. The artist takes care to render the fabrics and silhouettes used in the garment. They typically illustrate clothing on a figure with exaggerated 9-head or 10-head proportions. The artist will typically find samples of fabric, or swatches, to imitate in their drawing.

Notable fashion illustrators[edit]

Notable active illustrators[edit]

Meagan Morrison^[4]
David Downton (1959–)
Julie Verhoeven (1969-)
Hayden Williams (1991-)

Notable Illustrators of the past[edit]

Paul Iribe (1883–1935)
Carl 'Eric' Erickson (1891–1958)
'Erté' Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Christian Bérard (1902–1949)
Max Hoff (1903 – 1985)
Dagmar Freuchen (1907-1991)
Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom (1905-1986)
Rene Gruau (1909–2004)
Irwin Crosthwait (1914–1981)
Lila De Nobili (1916–2002)
Bernard Blossac (1917–2002)
Kenneth Paul Block (1924–2009)
Andy Warhol (1928–1987)
Antonio Lopez (1943–1987)
Joel Resnicoff (1948–1986)^[5]

Digital Fashion Illustrators[edit]

Inga Sandweg (1985-)

References[edit]

^The Truth About Fashion Sketching, sewingnpatterns.com.^{[verification needed]}
^Drake, Nicolas. (1994). 'Fashion Illustration Today (Revised Edition),' Thames & Hudson Ltd., London. (p 7).
^Borrelli, Laird. (2000). 'Fashion Illustration Now,' Thames & Hudson Ltd., London. (p 6-175).
^Paton, Elizabeth (15 September 2016). 'Fashion Returns to the Drawing Board'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
^Blackman, Cathy (2007). 100 years of fashion illustration. Laurence King Publishing. p. 169. ISBN978-1-85669-462-9.

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External links[edit]

Design Your Clothes Website

Frances Needy Collection - SPARC Digital - https://sparcdigital.fitnyc.edu/items/browse?collection=26
Victoria & Albert Museum - Fashion Drawing and Illustration - http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/fashion-drawing-in-the-20th-century/