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Fashion illustration
If your Major Textiles Project is based on one of the following focus areas: apparel, costume and possibly textile art, you will need to illustrate your visual design development with good quality rendered fashion illustrations. This tutorial provides links to relevant websites, references and an activity for you to complete that will help with the basics of fashion illustration.
Outcomes
This material addresses aspects of the following syllabus
outcomes:
H2.1 The student communicates design concepts and
manufacturing specifications to both technical and
non-technical audiences.
Source: Board of Studies NSW, Stage 6 Textiles and
Design Syllabus, Preliminary and HSC Courses
(2007)
References and links
The following web sites present different fashion illustration styles.
www.metrofashion.com/sketches.html 
www.jason-brooks.com/
http://www.renie.com/
http://www.yokoikeno.com/
http://www.graphics.com
Activity
Take a look at least five illustrators and write a sentence describing each illustrator's style. Be sure to identify the rendering techniques they have used.
Some great books on fashion illustration are:
Borelli and Laird (2000) Fashion Illustration Now, Thames
& Hudson, London.
Everett, F., Garbera, C. and Woods, P. (1988) An Usborne
Guide, Fashion and style, Four Usborne fashion guides in
one, Usborne Publishing Ltd, London.
Ireland, P. J. (1979) Fashion design, Cambridge
University Press, London.
Mortimer-Dunn, G. (1972) Fashion design, Rigby Ltd,
Sydney. This is an old book but has some good information on
style names. Particularly good if you are looking for
information on the 50s and 60s.
Scipione, S. Fashion illustration, Hobson Press,
London. ISBN 0 959568360.
Spooner, C. Fashion by design, Longman Cheshire.
ISBN 058276885
Stecker, P. The Fashion Design Manual, Macmillan
Education. ISBN 0732907360
Exercise 1 Drawing practice
Using the proportions in model A, sketch four different designs from a magazine. Select designs and models that are using different poses and different clothes.
Exercise 2 Thumbnails
Take a pencil and paper and draw thumbnail sketches of people on TV, spend only 30 seconds on each one. Better still, if you have the opportunity to go to a fashion parade draw some thumbnail sketches to record what you see.
In the Sun-Herald magazine, Sunday Life!, 29.4.01 there was an article on how a fashion writer and two fashion editors use thumbnail sketches to record the designs they see at fashion parades, ' a picture tells a thousand words'.
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Exercise 3 Rendering
Using model B print out five enlarged copies or use one of your own drawings to complete five of the following renderings:
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coloured pencil or pastel on black and white paper
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chalk or caran d'ache pencil on black paper
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ink and markers
- wash
www.metrofashion.com/sketch_metrofashion_fendidrss.html
- poster paints
- mixed media
- computer generated www.jason-brooks.com
Exercise 4 Presentation
Remember the page count for the visual design development section of your supporting documentation for the Major Textiles Project is:
6 x A4 or 3 x A3
If you mount your A4 illustrations on A3 paper it will count as A3 paper not A4. So think carefully about how to present your illustrations.
The illustration, as with all aspects of your presentation, should reflect the design inspiration.
Mounting
Mounting your illustrations protects them and gives a more
professional finish. You can choose:
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Workshop
Contact the Whitehouse
Institute of Design for possible tuition options.
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