Drawings and paintings in different mediums and styles which is also sometimes known as fashion sketching. It is mainly used by 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. Fashion illustration is a visual way of explaining different design ideas. They have played a critical role in fashion designing since the evolution of clothes. Every fashion designer develops their unique style of fashion sketching over the years. These end up becoming their signature sketching style, which you can instantly recognize from their sketches.
Fashion illustrations helps mainly in following manners:
- Visualizing the concept of the design
- It is the initial phase of designing.
- promotes and propagates an entirely new trend
- represents the creative skills of a fashion designer.
How to get started:
- Understand body proportions. To get started with fashion drawing, you need to understand body anatomy.
- Define your character poses. Once you have the body proportions clear, practice sketching different poses.
- Place the clothes.
- Explore and find your style.
- Choose the rendering medium and complete the fashion illustration.
Block illustration.
Charcoal illustration.
Ink illustration.
Woodcut illustration.
Watercolour.
Pencil Illustration.
Collage Illustration.
Acrylic Illustration