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Supplies Needed For Fashion Design Sketches
Posted by in Fashion Sketches on September 28, 2011
The fashion industry is one that’s often portrayed as glamorous, fun and exciting. But unless you’re one of them who sees what goes on behind the scenes, you must know that for such gorgeous and beautiful clothing pieces to be created, a lot of hard work and effort is put in. A single piece can take a lot of time, what’s more a whole line of fashion. It all begins with the initial sketches, so if you’re planning on sketching fashion designs, make sure you’ve got the right art supplies.
The most basic supplies required would be your trusty sketch pad and a few felt tip pens or some sharpies. You would also need a trace pad and some pencils for the starting sketches. Then you move on to the more fancy stuff such as pattern masters, curves, set squares and French rulers, all with detailed markings for you to get measurements and details right on your sketches. Things like the garder ruler is also important in the fashion scales because it would be used to measure the curves for armholes, collars and so on.
You would also need some good quality charcoal sticks for you to draw out your thoughts and some colour pastels as well. A great type of pencils to use would be those that are non water soluble as they don’t smudge and are quick to use. Also, when investing in pens and markers, get those that dry instantly so you can pen out your ideas quickly and without having to wait for the ink to dry and so on.
Once you’ve got your pictures and colour schemes all ready, you would need to add in the colours in detail. You can use the colours from sharpie markers for fashion sketches but for more details, try using water colours.
Draw a Fashion Sketch in 4 Simple Steps
Posted by in Fashion Sketches on September 28, 2011
If you are new to Fashion Design Sketch, then this step by step approach to draw a good fashion sketch is helpful. Start with building a foundation to fashion by look around in boutique stores, fashion shows or even in the internet. Get an idea what a fashion design is about and observe the difference from different places, models and the internet pictures.
The idea is to arose your interest in fashion design. This mental state can help you to create an internal desire to make your own fashion sketches. Of course merely look around does not help you to draw unless you do it yourself. So, pay attention to the type of fashion, color schemes, lighting effects and then visualize it into a sketch.
Once you have the fashion sketch in mind, next is to put it on paper as the way you visualize it. In order to draw your sketch, the following steps will help you get started:-
step 1) Art supplies – it is required to sketch a fashion design which may include simple items like drawing paper and pencil
Step 2) Use tracing paper to trace the outline and major lines a sketch you like.
Step 3) Fine tuning the sketch – Lay a carbon paper in between a sketch. Fine tune the drawing to have your own design. You can use a dark pencil such as 3B pencil to help you.
Step 4) Add color and shade – to the fashion sketch. Then your continue to do up the patterns and accessories to form the final sketch.
Follow the steps above would help you to draw your first fashion design sketch.