Fashion Drawing: Techniques for Sketching Garments

1. Big Pen Silhouette Drill: - for the first step will be sketching all the posters that you picked out. - You will want to use the biggest marker you confined. - Try to focus on breaking sections of the body into little individual lines and shapes. - Keep in mind these don't need to be perfect. - You will be redrawing these in the next step. 2. Turning Silhouettes into Figures: - Now we're going to create five figure drawing sketches by refining our silhouette sketches - one at a time. - Take each of your silhouette sketches, - place either trace paper or any translucent paper like animation bond on top of it, - and begin loosely adding details to the figure. - You just need to get the basic anatomy into the right place. - Continue to utilize your post references for this part. - As you can see, - I tend to keep my figure drawing sketches more on the loose and raw side, - mainly because we will be refining our drawings with each draft and because I want to keep - my final sketch fresh. - Also, - with this draft, - I'm taking the opportunity to correct any mistakes I made in my initial silhouette sketch. - Once you have done this for five sketches, - we will move on to add Ingrid suits. 3. Drawing the Grid Suit: - Now we're adding a grid suit to our sketch from the previous step. - The point of the grid suit is to have a reference for rendering the garment. - Later. - I start with the centre front of the grid suit because it's the easiest reference points - for other lines next at the collar around the neck. - Then add the arm hole, - connecting the top of the shoulder to the armpit with a straight line. - Connect the arm hole with the collar. - Start at the centre frontline. - Go across the chest, - cross the nipple to the site. - Seem. - Add the waistline, - which ago across the smallest section of the torso. - Next at the hip line, - Theun at the leg hole, - which is from the crotch to the base of the hip. - Finally at the dart lines, - which are halfway between the center line and the side seam. - Once you have drawn the grid suit for all five sketches, - we will begin sketching the garment on the pose 4. Sketching the Garment: - Now you're going to sketch the garment you picked on the Post. - You picked this first parts optional, - but it really helps when you're just learning. - Place a piece of trace paper over your garment reference and draw a grid suit onto now. - Use that as your reference to sketch the garment onto the post with the grid suit. - One thing to note the garment lines won't necessarily fall on the grid suit lines, - but the grids who will help you determine where the line should actually go on the sketch. - So if the garments waistline falls below the true waistline, - then draw it below the grid suits. - Waistline really focus on capturing the shape of the garment. - You've probably noticed with each step we're refining and adding detail to the sketch. - Since we're gonna be redrawing this, - don't hyper focus on details that will come later 5. Carbon Copy: - Now that we've sketched the garment onto the figure, - it's time to transfer, - drawing onto a new piece of paper. - You can do that by using carbon copy paper, - a light box. - We're just scribbling on the back side of your rough draft. - I personally scribble on the back side of my drawing with as many pencils as my hand can - hold. - I use color pencils at this point so I can tell the difference between my new lines and - what's already on the page. - As you transfer your drawing onto the new paper, - try to refine it. - Don't just trace the image, - but take your time and try to get all the lines right where you want him, - because those lines will be your guide for the final sketch. - Once we have transferred the whole image to a new page, - we will begin the final draft 6. Final Draft: - first step I do on the final draft is too taken h two pencil and refined the lines that - transferred from the carbon copy. - This is by far the longest stage and requires the most. - Patients and concentration try to slow down the pace a lot, - because at this stage each line really matters. - Look for any lines I feel aren't ready to be inked and make slight adjustments with a - pencil. - Once the line is ready, - I use a fine tip my krump in and start thinking in the details. - I'm gonna walk you through what I often use, - but I really encourage you to experiment and find out what mediums and techniques work best - for you. - Once I have finished putting down all the lines and pen, - I watered down Sumi ink and begin rendering shadows with a watercolor brush. - Before I start painting, - I'll test my meat mixture on a different piece of paper. - Usually try to have a consistency of about 10% gray for this piece. - Amusing arches £300 hot pressed watercolor paper because watercolor paper is made out of - many thin layers allows you to slowly make areas darker by applying multiple layers over - the same area. - So I start with areas I want to make darkest and slowly expand out toe lighter areas by the - end, - nearly off the piece as at least one layer of ink on it. - Now that have the lion rendered, - I will begin adding the details. - To do this, - I start drawing on top of the ink with color pencil. - From here, - I continued to color at detail and render. - And until I feel the peace is complete, - I really look forward to seeing all your finished pieces. - Good luck.