Fashion illustrationMarch 2012

Jina Park

Fashion Illustration has been around for nearly 500 years. Ever since clothes have been in exist-ence and there was a need to translate an idea or image into a garment there has been a need for fashion illustration. Not only do fashion illustrations show a representation or design of a gar-ment but also served as a form of art. Fashion illustration shows the presence of hand and is said to be a visual luxury.

step by step guide to drawing a Fashion sketch

Fashion sketch is like an art. The aim is to give you ideas and guide you on a step by step approach to draw a fashion sketch. Study the fashion around us, or through the internet about the world of fashion. Fashion can be as simple as a piece of cloth wrapping around a model, but as to how you, as the fashion designer enhances the visual impact, by add-ing colors, lighting effects, folds, and all the drawing techniques to the model. This show-cases your originality, your passion about how the clothing will look like when worn.

what you need: •Art materials and supplies re-quired to sketch a fashion design that you have in your mind Easiest way is to use a fashion template. Traced (using tracing paper) the body template with the pose you want.. Trace the outline and major lines of the figure onto a sheet of tracing paper, Add in facial features and hair styles if you like.

Always remember, making sketches is a prerequisite for the fashion designers to market their ideas and designs. In the highly competitive fashion industry, fashion designers must have their own style and originality. And the fashion designers should also consider whether the collection you want to showcase has a market. Because, at the end of the day, the consumers are the ones who will buy your final pparels. So a fashion designer must also have the target people in mind when they do the sketch.

but if want to draw fashion illustration, you should know aout fashion, first.-what kind of style do you know-which style is your favorite-what is your style

This is the interview with the fashion people. Lets read the their fashion. and think about your fashion, too.

Some of link about fashiln illustration-http://www.illustrationweb.com/About.aspx

-http://www.daviddownton.com/fashion.html

-http://www.designer-daily.com/20-examples-of-great-fashion-illustra-tion-10551

-http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/search/collection/p16029coll3/searchterm/fashion%20illustrations/order/title

-http://www.jenniferlilyafashionillustration.com/

-http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/search/collection/p16029coll3/searchterm/fashion%20illustrations/order/title

-http://www.fashionarium.com/

-http://www.mambeeba.com/

-http://paperfashion.net/

-http://www.idrawfashion.com/

-http://www.sarahhankinson.com/