Skill Level: all

fashion illustration

Our fashion drawing courses address all aspects of the design process, to give you a platform to launch your own fashion label, design for leading brands or handle production upon graduation. You will gain a core understanding of design principles, from conception through to mood boards, design briefs, material selection and putting together a collection. You will learn manual techniques and you will then be able to apply your technique to Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop to enhance your presentation skills.

What You'll Learn

• Drawing the 8 and 10 head fashion figure

• Movement and poses with the fashion figure

• Intensive work on body and facial features

• Drawing faces

• Drawing templates

• Drawing composition, shading and shadow

• Dressing the fashion figure

• Colour and design theory and how this interacts with the drawn figure

• Colouring with pencils and markers

• Backgrounds and setting the mood for drawing specific styles of garments

• Technical drawing for garment specifications

• Mood boards, portfolios and PowerPoint presentations for use by design teams

• Fashion layouts for a range

• Presentation art using the exaggerated fashion figure to present garments and sell ideas and themes

• Flat drawing or line art using a proportioned fashion figure to present garment details for accurate pattern specification and sample making.

Students are taught manual techniques and then may apply their talents to Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop to enhance their presentation skills.

More Information

Please feel free to email or call us on 02 9449 1450 and we'd be happy to provide more information or tailor a program for you.