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 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.
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
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