Drawing through a book

 

 So I’ve never been very good a fashion drawings also just been teaching myself but the drawing will still always come out a bit funny and I’ve taken out books from the library but other than tracing from them haven’t really found them very helpful but then I found a really good one with some good step by step instructions about spacing and such so hopefully I’ll start to get the hang of it if I keep at it and then not have to keep referring to the book in the end!

So for art I’ve been looking at buildings and different illustrations and artists, but I always wanted to lead onto a more fashion based project, so in my research folder I’ve been collecting tear sheets of fashion shoots from magazines which are all set in and around buildings so that hopefully there’s a link there for now and then I can perhaps like the effect or texture of brinks and stones to the fabric for maybe a dress.

So these collections of drawings all lead up to one when the 3 are layered on top of each other. I started a new sketch book to be dedicated to fashion drawing so hopefully I’ll be able to see improvement throughout the book but the first couple are just of using geometric shapes to create the body and that just started to make the book look a bit boring so I added a thick black line of what an outfit could be for the theme that I’m going for and then with this one started to add more detail with the brown criss-cross behind the figure giving the impression of perhaps stones, bricks, to give an idea of where this outfit for a photo shoot would be shot but drew to the new detail on top of the brown paper you can tell that’s it’s not to colour of say the top but of the background.

So to add some more texture to this piece, to make it more that a sketch. I got the idea for a pair of sequined trousers from one of my tear sheets. Where the outfit is all black bar these sparkling trousers, so I drew a quick impression of them but you still couldn’t really see what it was meant to mean, so I thought that even though the proportions of the sequins would be completely wrong so instead of covering the top layer of drawing with them I stuck them underneath the lines and rows of drawn sequins so that the colour can be seen from underneath. 

So next I’m just going to be focusing on practising my fashion drawing and experimenting with more ways of how to give an impression of a pattern rather than having to draw out every little detail.