Do you have any of the below questions in your mind?

How to draw a fashion figure? Or how to make your illustration as interesting as possible? Or what techniques could help to make a Fashion figure look beautiful, dynamic, stylish, and professional? How can you do Illustration as a beginner? Or maybe you are confused about which brushes or which tools to use and for desired effects?

Then you have come to the right place that’s exactly what you will learn in this course, all the easy and effective techniques to sketch a fashion figure. Subsequently, we will work on how to use watercolors and different mediums to express the image character like a professional as well.

Through this course, we will learn

Intro and Supply list - What is fashion illustration, Terminologies and materials required for the course

Sketching exercises for better hand movements-

Face and Features

Hairstyles, and shading basics

Gesture/ quick sketcking- How to draw stylized and spectacular fashion poses, learn how to work with guidelines to get a proportionate figure.
Garment Draping- How to drape different garments like skirts, pants, collars how to create different textures like ruffles, flow (garment fall), sleeves.
Rendering Fabrics -How to draw various textures of fabrics, express their volume and density on the sheet. Show the lightness of transparent chiffon and stiff cotton, the luster of smooth leather, the softness and the texture of fluffy fur.

Runway look (project )

Here we will create a collection inspired by a chic fashion look. We will work in detail with, fabric like denim, lace, and accessories with an overall look.

Sketching - We will analyse a pose from a magazine/ reference image and will learn techniques to develop the fashion figure.
Garment draping- we will learn to sketch garment according to the flow and structure in the reference. We will work on even the minor details that impacts the finished work.
Body and garment rendering- You will learn how to draw various textures of fabrics, express their volume and density on the sheet
Accessories and background
Finishing touches- Those fine details that enhance the illustrations that no one shares...

As a part of the project, you will be creating “Runway Look” along with me, where we will be focusing on a complete aesthetic look of the illustration including accessories, hairstyles, figure drawing, garment rendering, and finishing. And these can add up to your portfolio too…

Not only that you will get a fashion workbook, as downloadable resources you will have figure templates with different fashion poss, hairstyles, and face features, and much more in the projects and resources section.

Course Materials required

✦ Watercolor paints(Artist range in any brand), watercolor pencils (staedtler or Prisma colors), white gel pen,

✦ Watercolor paper preferably 250-350 gsm

✦ Round brush, flat painting brush

✦ Gateway sheet or tracing paper

✦ Black pigment liner (waterproof Pigma Micron is recommended)

✦ Ruler, shading pencils, eraser (regular and mono eraser)

This master class will suit both newbies as well as professional illustrators or students who want to master fashion sketching quickly.

Suparna S Thantry

Fashion Illustrator, Educator

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