Sunday, March 15, 2015

How To Make A Fashion Style Drawing

By Lena Stephenson


For the aspiring fashion artists out there, it is very important to perfect the art of sketching fashion style as it is the most basic thing that one will be learning. Now fashion style drawing is a specific way of sketching a person or a figure for the sole purpose of introducing a new piece of clothing. Of course there is a certain way to do this that all beginners have to learn.

Now one very important thing to take note about drawing these specific types of figures is that everything about them is exaggerated. For one, the shadows of the clothes as well as the folds are highly exaggerated in order for the clothes to be more highlight. Also, the body parts and the poses of the models are also very exaggerated too.

For the very first step, it will definitely help if one would first trace the figure of an actual model from a magazine. To do this, one would first have to have a pencil, a ruler, and some tracing paper. When he has gotten all of those materials, then he has to trace the model of his choice on the tracing paper using the pencil and the ruler for measurements.

Now once one has already traced the silhouette, then the second step is to create a wooden puppet outline. The whole purpose of the outline is to help the artist be able to know how to draw the parts and the poses properly. Basically, he will just use some lines and basic shapes in order to form the wooden puppet outline.

Now after the creation of the puppet outline, then he can start drawing the details of his figure. First, he should start working on the face, the arms, and all the other body parts using a pencil. Now it is expected that the figure will have exaggerated body parts which means that the figure should have a rather small head, a long torso, a long pair of arms, and a long pair of legs.

Once that is done, one now has to draw the clothes on the model with the exaggerated folds and shadows. After one has already done that, then all he has to do would be to get a black pen to redraw the figure while darkening all the important parts that need to be highlighted. From there, he may then erase all of the pencil marks that were made a while ago.

Now notice that in fashion sketches, artists would add a lot of accessories and use a lot of colors. Notice that the artists would also give their figures some trendy or unusual hairstyles. This is to add style and a little bit of sass to the sketch.

Basically, these are some of the steps that beginners can follow. Now if one is already quite good, then he does not need to trace the outline of a model from a magazine anymore as he can just create his own original outline with his own pose. He may also experiment with some original styles that he comes up with.




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