Fashion Drawing, Second edition

Name: Fashion Drawing, Second edition
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781780678344
Price: 105.0 NZD
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Illustration Techniques for Fashion Designers

By Michele Wesen Bryant

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Summary

Fashion Drawing, Second edition is a comprehensive and practical guide designed for students of fashion design. This updated edition offers brand new illustrations that reflect current trends in pose, presentation, and digital design, alongside detailed guidance on creating technical flats. Step-by-step tutorials cover drawing fashion figures for women, men, and children, and adapting styles for various markets. With over 1000 illustrations showcasing work from leading designers and illustrators, readers can explore a wide range of approaches. The book also teaches how to render fabrics and textures including faux fur, metallics, prints, woven and knitted materials, and contains an illustrated glossary of garment and fabric details as well as an extensive resource section.
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Ideal for fashion design students and aspiring fashion illustrators seeking a thorough and practical textbook to develop drawing and rendering techniques with contemporary insights.

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A guide to fashion drawing for students of fashion design. It 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. It also includes details on how to draw flats as well as rendering knits, denim, and fur.

Description

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

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

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

Render fabrics and textures: 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.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Informative and comprehensive, praised for its high quality fashion drawings and logical structure that builds skills and encourages practice. Reviewers commend the integration of technology and industry-related activities, making it a valuable resource that can replace multiple textbooks. Its lovingly compiled presentation includes extensive tips, tricks, and multiple visual references to key contemporary fashion illustrators, supporting students in developing and refining their illustration skills.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780678344

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 July 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Laurence King Publishing

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 2050g

Pages: 448

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Arts & Culture Fashion & Design Laurence King Publishing Michele Wesen Bryant Non-Fiction

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, the Fashion Institute of Technology at Polimoda in Florence and Zhejaiang Sci Tech University in Hangzhou.

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