Draw Fashion Now: Techniques, Inspiration, and Ideas for Illustrating and Imagining Your Designs shows how to render figures, fabrics, and garments, and develop a personal style of sketching.

Chock-full of sophisticated and trendy images, this doodle book encourages aspiring designers to experiment with color and pattern to create original fashions. More than 60 pages of clothing and accessories.

In this step-by-step guide, Lee Hammond reveals secrets that will help you turn your drawings into professional-looking fashion illustrations. &break;&break;You'll start with the basics - like how to draw the human figure as a combination of simple, interlocking shapes and how to use shading to give your work a realistic, three-dimensional quality. Next, you'll learn how to make the fashions look real - with convincing folds, drapes, patters and textures.&break; &break;Exercises and easy-to-follow demonstrations how you how to give your models expressive features, fashionable hair styles and just-the-right accessories. &break;&break;You'll learn how to add impact with cropping and creative backgrounds as you combine pose, expression and lighting to strike a mood and create attitude. &break;&break;If you have a feel for fashion and a creative flair, try your hand at fashion illustrations. This book makes it easy!

This fun introduction to design opens the world of style to budding fashionistas Bestselling art instructor Chris Hart not only gives step-by-step instructions on drawing figures from many points of view and in varying poses, he explains the tricks of the trade: how to "dress" your figure; render color, texture, and print; and create accessories, hairstyles, and makeup looks. An overview of tools, materials, and essential skills will help you bring your creative vision to life

"Lively text and fun illustrations describe how to draw cool fashions"--Provided by publisher.

"Discover the secrets to unleashing your personal artistic style while learning how to draw fabulous female faces and hands"--Cover.

Draw fashion flats with easiness, accuracy and confidence using this one of a kind book."How to draw fashion flats" is a comprehensive, practical guide to technical apparel drawing. The book focuses on pencil and marker techniques with rulers and French curves.This expert, hands-on, guide make essential basic concepts of fashion flats easy to understand. Text in the book is concise and to-the-point. More than 700 hand drawn visuals are in the book to illustrate every step, every term, and every concept. It is a unique book, created by professionals for professionals. Book saves time and makes the complexity of technical drawing easy to comprehend.Who should use this book?Independent designer or small business professional. Be more efficient by making the process of creating and correcting flats easier and more reliable.Professionals in the field of fashion design, apparel technical design and garment product development. Draw accurate flats with this book.Fashion merchandising professionals. Use the book as a reference for garment elements terms and a glossary of garment types.Students who study fashion design, patternmaking and fashion merchandising. With this book, a student's project can rich a level of professional competency.What is in the book?Step-by-step guides on how to draw pants, t-shirts, jackets, swimwear, and skirts.Do's and don'ts, the right and wrong examples (visuals with captions)Visual galleries of garment details.Main fashion apparel terms illustrated.Drawing tips from the expert.Figure templates for drawing flats. Use the figure templates to draw your flats. Women, men, children (4 different age groups) as well as a plus size women and big and tall man figures.The Gallery of completed projects. Learn the main steps of development flats from sketches. Gallery shows fashion illustrations with matching flats and work sketches.Who created this book?Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer and professional visual artist. Irina is the author of the "Children's wear fashion illustration resource book".With this book, you can draw accurate fashion flats, fast and with confidence.