Fashion Illustration Online Short Course
Course description
Course overview
On this fashion illustration online course you will work with a professional illustrator who will help you find your own visual language and unlock your creativity through drawing, from concept to completion.
Each week you will meet online for lively sessions with your tutor and a small group of like-minded students. You will learn new techniques, gain inspiration and practical insight from the work of great illustrators, practice your skills, and share your work for constructive discussion and feedback. You will be guided through a series of tutorials and practical assignments that will help you execute new designs, concepts and ideas.
You will work with a range of mediums including ink, markers, watercolours, crayons and pastels, collage, digital and mixed media, and will learn how to sketch and draw with greater confidence. You will learn how to illustrate the human body, and how to draw fashion garments and clothes.
By the end of the course, you will have developed and refined your personal style of illustration and created a range of expressive pieces to add to your portfolio. You will have new skills that will make you a better illustrator, and which can be applied to the development of fashion designs more generally. And you will be able to take pride in being able to realise your visual ideas more accurately and with greater expertise.
Who this course is for
The course is ideal for creative individuals and aspiring illustrators who are looking to increase their current portfolio or who are looking to find expression through another medium.
It would also be an excellent fit for fashion designers who want to develop their sketching and illustrating skills.
Key information
Topics covered
- Understanding the role of a fashion illustrator
- Developing your fashion illustration vocabulary
- Interpreting concepts and ideas
- How to develop your personal illustrating style
- Help with composition and design concepts
- Working with tone, line and negative space
- Using design for mixed media including digital and animation illustration
- Working with traditional mediums such as pastels and watercolour
- Exploring colour and using your personal colour palette
- The importance of keeping a sketchbook
- How to utilise collage
- How to use and control ink
- How to explore the next steps with fashion illustration
Learning outcomes
- Gain an understanding of:
- How to create your own personalised drawing style
- Incorporating structured composition into your designs
- Using multiple mediums to create artwork
- How to utilise traditional methods such as ink, watercolour and pastels
- Using your creativity to create original designs
- How to use your designs to build up your portfolio
- Using original concepts and themes
- Critiquing your work and others within the group
- Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
Please have the following materials to hand for the first class:
- A3 Cartridge Pad
- Graphite Stick
- Soft pencils B2 B4 and such
- Set of markers, skin tone and colour
- Watercolour pencils
- Watercolours
- Acrylic or Gouache
- Ink
- Set of pastels, oil or soft
- Brushes
- Any other art materials, pens and markers
- Fashion magazines, printouts, colour paper etc.
- iPad or Mobile Phone
- Glue stick/PVA
- Masking tape/Washi tape
Please see our Guide to taking online short courses
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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