Fashion Drawing and Illustration Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course is designed to introduce you to the practice of drawing and illustration for fashion, both in its initial and final stages. Through a set of carefully constructed exercises and demonstrations, students will learn a variety of ways of communicating and illustrating fashion.
This course will provide a fresh perspective on fashion drawing, and it is specifically aimed at liberating the student and inspiring them to sketch, illustrate, explore diverse approaches, mediums and techniques and find their own way within the subject.
During the Drawing part of the course, you will learn how to draw what you observe and how to communicate fashion designs on the figure, individually as garments and as a part of a Fashion Design line-up.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for anyone interested in developing fashion drawing and illustration skills, regardless of prior experience. Beginners are welcome, as are those looking to expand existing knowledge.
Key information
Topics covered
- Sketching for Fashion
- Fundamentals of Fashion Drawing
- Various methods for drawing your Fashion Figure
- Gesture, movement and pose Heads, hands, faces, hair and feet
- Drawing garments
- How to draw drapery and volume
- Texture and pattern
- Understanding shading
- Rendering different fabrics
- How to use promarkers and colour pencils
- Creating a final Fashion Design Line-up drawing of your chosen collection
During the Illustration part of the course, you will learn how to transition from drawing what you see to drawing what you think and how to develop your personal style of illustration. You will create a series of fashion illustration for your portfolio and learn how to use a selection of wet and dry mediums.
This part of the course includes:
- Fashion Illustration as means of ""Capturing the Essence""
- What it means to develop your personal style
- How to draw what you think
- Deconstructing the building blocks - line, colour and shape
- Understanding colour
- Watercolours for Fashion
- Ink for Fashion
- Pastels for Fashion
- Acrylic and Gouache for Fashion
- Illustrating carefully chosen selection of contemporary fashion designers
Learning outcomes
- Understand the practical knowledge of the fashion figure
- Approach fashion illustration with various drawing techniques
- Take found imagery and use it as inspiration for their own work
- Understand how to execute various textiles and garments us
- Develop a range of diverse characters and styling techniques for chosen fashion brand
- Create a final line up (capsule collection)
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- 2/3 Fashion magazines
- Pencils, colour pencils (Faber and Castell Polychromos are recommended)
- Pens, markers (Stabilos and 1 or 2 Posca markers)
- Any colours of your choice (please have a range of light colours and dark colours i.e. pink, brown, black, etc.)
- Small selection of watercolour or gouache (colours of your choice)
Other basic materials will be provided, and during the first class you will be advised regarding extra items you may wish to bring for your own use
Tutor
Connie Lim
Connie Lim is an illustrator from Los Angeles, California now living in London. She is an avid observational drawer and is interested in capturing the moment through her constant lifedrawing practice. Through mixed media, she plays with various combinations and techniques to create playful but striking images. You can find her sketching almost everywhere from backstage at fashion shows to instore live drawing portraits and products.
Her clients include Guerlain, Bulgari, Louboutin, and Chanel. She has shown in galleries such as Oxo in London, Acid Gallery in France, Fashion Illustration Gallery AF, and ShowStudio. Her work has been featured in publications including Martin Dawber’s Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration, and Beautiful by Gestalten and the latest by Taschen, The Illustrator - 100 Best From Around the World and most recently New fashion illustration by Hoaki Publishers
Ana Stankovic-Fitzgerald
Ana Stankovic-Fitzgerald is a lecturer in BA (Hons) Fashion Imaging and Illustration at LCF, an artist, and a Senior Fellow in Higher Education. She studied drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, where she earned an MA in Fine Art Painting.
Ana has taught at UAL since 2003, developing innovative approaches to drawing, illustration, and visual communication. A pioneer in inclusive digital learning, she designed one of UAL’s first fully online creative courses in Fashion Illustration, establishing new models for analogue-digital integration. Her teaching and creative practice explore contemporary approaches to drawing and image-making, combining traditional methods with emerging technologies through experimental, student-centred practices.
She has designed and delivered courses for London College of Fashion, Central Saint Martins, and Nottingham Trent University, and collaborated with institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Design Museum, Fashion Space Gallery, Clerkenwell Design Week, and the Royal Collection, creating bespoke public engagement programmes. Ana has also led masterclasses for numerous international universities in China, Denmark, and the UAE. Her work has been published in Visual Research Methods in Fashion (Berg, 2011) and Technical Drawing for Fashion (Laurence King, 2012). It has been selected for Best of British Illustration and exhibited in the UK and internationally, including at the Royal College of Art.
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