Fashion Figure Drawing Online Short Course
Course description
Course overview
The best fashion designers draw their own fashion figures rather than work with standard templates. This gives them the freedom to work with different poses, body shapes, and movements, and bring their own style to the figure. Fashion drawing is also important for fashion buyers to enhance their visual communication.
During the course, a new method will be explored each week, with the aim of enabling you to draw in a holistic and comfortable way. Through proven and simple methods, practice, and feedback, you will learn how to draw your own fashion figures, which will open up new creative design and communication possibilities. You will learn how to create your own unique fashion figure templates, suitable for use in the design development process, and for creating fashion line-ups.
The course explores contemporary fashion and fashion collections. You will learn how to create a full line-up either from your own designs or from your chosen designer. We will explore drawing techniques and understand the figure to create your own muse using dry mediums. These line up illustrations can be included in your fashion portfolio.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for fashion designers, fashion buyers, and fashion design students of different specialisms (womenswear, menswear, sportswear, contour, childrenswear, knitwear, etc.) looking to improve their existing drawing skills or bolster a portfolio.
It would also be an excellent fit for anyone who wants to learn how to draw a human body for fashion (all levels welcome).
Key information
Topics covered
- Sketching techniques and working with pencils
- Creation of your personal fashion figure template techniques
- Understanding the fashion figure proportion, anatomy and movement
- Understanding the fashion figure hands, faces, feet and hair
- Using your fashion figure template for design development
- Incorporating garments within your created figures
- Using your fashion figure template to create fashion line-up illustrations
- Rendering techniques with markers and colour pencils
- Finalising your personal line-up illustrations for communication and presentation
- Sketching for fashion
- Fundamentals of fashion drawing
- Understanding the fashion figure
- Gesture, movement and pose
- Heads, hands, faces, 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 drawings of your chosen collection
Learning outcomes
- Developed techniques for drawing your own figure for fashion design
- Develop confidence and techniques to sketch the human body
- Explored different methods for drawing a successful fashion figure
- Understand the human body proportions and dynamics and be able to apply onto fashion design
- Develop methods for drawing faces, hands, feet and hair
- Learned how to incorporate and communicate your garments within a figure
- Learned different techniques for marker/colour pencil rendering
- Produced a body of work that will contribute to a portfolio that can be used for the design development purpose or a final line-up illustrations creation of your designs
- Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
Please have the following materials to hand for use during the course and homework assignments:
- A3 layout pad
- A3 marker pad
- Set of soft pencils, B2, B4 or similar
- Set of skin tone double sided art markers
- Set of watercolour pencils
- Various pens, fineliners and similar
- Selection of fashion magazines
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Tutor
Ana Stankovic-Fitzgerald
Ana Stankovic-Fitzgerald is a lecturer and artist. Originally, she studied drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade, specialising in Fine Art Painting.
Ana has been teaching drawing, illustration and creative visual communication at London College of Fashion since 2003. Over the years, Ana has established and taught numerous drawing and illustration courses for UAL, including London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins.
Her teaching practice also includes an extensive range of workshops and masterclasses which Ana has delivered for various clients in the UK and abroad, including Victoria & Albert Museum, Design Museum, Fashion Space Gallery, Clerkenwell Design Week, Royal Collection, Nottingham Trent University, Designskolen Kolding University, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences and Sichuan University.
Her work was selected for the 'Best of British Illustration' in 2001 and exhibited at numerous venues abroad and in the UK including the Royal College of Art.
Instagram: @ana.stankovicfitzgerald
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