Fashion Illustration for Designers

by Hagen, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780130983831
• ISBN10: 0130983837
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This step-by-step book is focused on teaching how to develop good, modern-looking drawing skills to allow designers to communicate their vision effectively.Fashion Illustration for Designerscaptures the various moods and mixes of global influences visually. It provides methods for organizing design and illustration tasks, and information about the best tools to not only get ideas on paper effectively, but also to dazzle an audience with the sophistication of the approach.Topics focus on how to draw all the various fashion figures, and to aid in understanding the subtleties of past, present, and future layered together and presented as style. Addresses not only drawing issues but also styling elements that can update a look.A great reference for Fashion Illustrators and Designers.

Author Biography

Kathryn Hagen is a full professor of illustration, drawing, and cultural studies at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, where she has taught for the last twenty years.

Table of Contents

Gather Your Tools	1	(26)
Handtools	3	(24)
Fashion Women: Creating Your Current Muse	27	(78)
Fashion Heads	29	(34)
Fashion Hands and Arms	63	(8)
Legs, Legs, Legs---and Feet	71	(12)
Developing a Fashion Pose	83	(22)
Clothing Your Muse	105	(164)
Overview: Clothing, Couture, and Essential Construction	107	(26)
Swimgirls	133	(20)
Trousers and Tops	153	(32)
Dresses and Skirts	185	(22)
Tailoring/Suits	207	(14)
Fall Layering	221	(20)
Eveningwear	241	(28)
Drawing Fashion Men	269	(32)
Male Heads	271	(10)
Develop a Pose	281	(20)
Dressing the Fashion Male	301	(44)
Swimguys	303	(8)
Casual Guys	311	(18)
Tailoring and Suits	329	(16)
Kids, Kids, Kids	345	(86)
Infants to Toddlers	351	(22)
Preschool Kids: Three- to Five-Year-Olds	373	(20)
Six- to Nine-Year-Olds	393	(18)
``Tweens'' (Ten- to Twelve-Year-Olds)	411	(10)
Teens (Thirteen- to Seventeen-Year-Olds)	421	(10)
Designing and Illustrating a Group	431	(36)
Computer Notes	467	(16)
Color, Glorious Color!	483	(78)
Addendum: Support Worksheets and Exercises	561	(24)
Index	585