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Fashion drawing is the most important way to visualize ideas and concepts in costume and fashion design. This new and expanded two-volume edition of the already classic title Figure Drawing for Fashion Design—revised, updated and expanded—is a precise, topic-by-topic manual that will help readers acquire and perfect their skills drawing fashion designs on the female form. Mastering the rules of figure drawing as well as stylistic techniques that add individuality and flair to the design is an essential skill for all designers and illustrators to master in order to bring one’s vision to the page, and eventually mannequin. In its approach, this book is ideal both for those designers and students who want to apply themselves professionally to fashion design, and for all enthusiasts of drawing the female body in a fashion context.
As a consultant, illustrator and stylist for renowned fashion companies, Elisabetta Kuky Drudi has planned and organised international fashion collections and shows. She has collaborated as an illustrator, fashion and textile designer with firms such as Baldessarini, Fuzzi, Hugo Boss & Hugo Boss Sport, Jean Paul Gaultier (Femme, Homme and Soleil) and Joop. Currently she designs for various international fashion houses and collaborates as a technical knit designer with Emilio Pucci, Mary Katrantzou and MSGM.
Tiziana Paci lives and works in Pesaro, Italy, teaching fashion design and painting. In her thirty years of experience, she has invented original methods for design in general and for the improvement of drawing and painting techniques for fashion sketches and figures. All this material has been organized into a number of manuals which combine both educational and artistic aspects. Thanks to their innovative nature, effectiveness and wealth of images, the texts have been translated into many languages and used in schools in Italy and abroad. She is the author of Colour in Fashion Illustration.
INTRODUCTION
FIRST MODULE. THE CANONS OF PROPORTION AND DRAWING OF THE FIGURE. The basic rules in drawing. Features of the face. The nose. The ear. The mannequin in various poses. The static mannequin in four perspectives. Axis of balance. Rotation of limbs. Figure and background. Many ways to study a figure. The male figure in the Greek Canon. Basic pose in front. Basic pose in profile. Base pose behind. Mirror pose ¾ with legs together. Structural analysis of a pose in three perspectives. Same pose in three perspectives with legs apart and hands on hips. Figure walking from behind. Pose from behind with flexed leg. Analogies. Rotation of limbs and new poses. Simultaneous movements in profile and in. three quarters back. Fashion canon. Stylisation. Image figures. Stylising the basic figure in front. Basic figure in profile. Basic figure from behind. Other ways to obtain a fashion figure. Stylizing a walking model. Fashion figure with 10 modules. Three figures in fashion poses. Lengthen a pose with Photoshop.
SECOND MODULE. THE BODY PARTS. The head. The head seen as an egg. From the skull to the head. Canon of the head. Many hairstyles for one face. Colouring a hairstyle on the computer. Facial features - The eyes. The nose. The mouth. Ears. The torso. Upper limb. Lower limb The fold system.
THIRD MODULE. THE FASHION MODEL AND FASHION DESIGN. The fashion model. Poses to dress. Personalising poses. Dressing a pose. Method of dressing. Details of hairstyles. Customising an outfit. Outfit customisation. Design and computer. Knitwear. Jacquard. Classic menswear fabrics.
FOURTH MODULE. PAINTING TECHNIQUES FOR FASHION. Vinyl tops and leggings. Jeans jacket and trainers. Jeans suit. Knitwear. Cardigan. Tartan. Plaid coat-Step by Step. Tweed - Herringbone - Pinstripe. Pied De Poule. Sheepskin and denim. Crocodile. Down jackets. Eco fur - Zebra and Giraffe. Fox. Astrakhan and Bear. Long-haired faux fur. Leopard. Jaguar. Crocodile leather trousers. Embroidered tulle top and lamé trousers. Multicolour sequins - Step By Step. Micro sequins. Purple jumpsuit. Silk satin minidress. Silk shantung. Gold lamé-Haute Couture. Lace & Micado-Haute Couture
FIFTH MODULE. TEXTILES DESIGN - Types of prints and patterns.
SIXTH MODULE. MINI CAPSULE COLLECTION DESIGN