Fashion Drawing, Second Edition - 2nd Edition by Michele Wesen Bryant (Paperback)

About the Book

Fashion Drawing is a comprehensive, practical guide to fashion drawing for students of fashion design. The book covers men, women and children, starting with how to draw the fashion figure and continuing with garments and garment details, before teaching the reader how to render various types of fabric. This second edition has been updated to include more details on how to draw flats as well as rendering knits, denim, pile weaves and fur. Tips are also included throughout on finishing hand-rendered drawings in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Contemporary in its approach and offering step-by-step guidance, the book emphasizes drawing as an integral function of the garment design process. Students learn how to manipulate various garment details with consideration for scale, construction and color as well as keeping in mind the profile of the potential customer. Illustrated throughout with a wide range of images from illustrators and designers working in today's market, Fashion Drawing provides both the inspiration and the instruction necessary to allow students to develop their own illustration style.

Book Synopsis

Fashion Drawing is a comprehensive, practical guide to fashion drawing for students of fashion design. This second edition features brand new illlustrations reflecting developments in pose, presentation and digital design, plus guidance on creating technical flats.

Step-by-step tutorials show how to create fashion drawings for women, men and children, and adapt them for different markets

More than 1000 illustrations depict work from leading designers and illustrators revealing a wide variety of approaches

Discover how to render fabrics, textures and effects, from faux fur and metallics to prints, woven and knitted materials

Includes an illustrated glossary of garment and fabric details and an extensive resource section

"A useful resource for both fashion students and home sewists looking to give their sketches a professional look." - Simply Sewing

Chapters include: - Drawing Women - Drawing Men - Drawing Children and Young Adults - Zooming In - Working From Life - Drawing Garments - Production Sketches - Basic Garment Details and Silhouettes - Drawing Drape - Tailored Clothing - Rendering Shine - Texture, Patterns and Sheers

About the Author

Michele Wesen Bryant teaches fashion drawing and concept development at Parsons School of Fashion and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She was also visiting professor at Istanbul Technical University, Parsons Paris and the Fashion Institute of Technology at Polimoda in Florence.