Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing is a step-by-step workbook for learning technical drawing and flat sketching skills. With more than 500 hand-drawn and CAD-rendered flats and 100 photos of finished samples showing how a sketch translates to a 3D garment, the book covers a range of garments and construction details used to communicate fashion designs for portfolios and production. Abling and DaCosta progress from basic design construction details such as darts, gathers, and trims to essential garment styles including skirts, tops, dresses, pants, jackets and coats. The book includes unique coverage of presentation of flats in a portfolio and critical step of preparing flats for a technical package and productions. Downloadable figure templates and flats library are available online. This book is an essential resource for fashion designers to learn technical drawing skills that effectively communicate fashion design concepts. Features · Shows front-view and back-view flats, select side-view and 3/4-view flats, plus variations for menswear and childrenswear · Covers basic CAD techniques, how to use the pen tool, and methods for translating hand-drawn flats to digital drawings · Guest Artist features showcase professional designer styles for flats to inspire creativity · Practical format includes lay-flat spiral binding and drawing practice pages with grids and figure templates Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing STUDIO · Download figure templates and basic garment flats that can be used in different CAD programs or printed out for reference or practice · Access extra drawing exercises and project using women's, men's, and children's flat figure templates · Review concepts with flashcards of essential fashion vocabulary Teaching Resources · The Instructor's Resources include sample course syllabi, test questions, visual quizzes and grading guidelines.

This book is a collection of 8 menswear projects illustrated with pencil and marker. In the book, each look has shown layer by layer, step by step. Use this book to learn how fashion flat sketches correspond with illustrations to develop a completed fashion illustration from a raw sketch in simple steps to draw flat sketches from preliminary pencil drawing to completed in marker flats, ready for specs to illustrate layered outfits layer by layer. The book is very visual by design and contains a minimum of text: only essential captions. A book is not a textbook or manual. It does not teach you “how to draw”; however, you can advance your skills by following the step-by-step drawing process using the book as a tutorial. Please note that there are no figure templates in the book. All drawings in the book were illustrated with a simple pencil. Sketch illustrations show the original roughness and spontaneity. This "sketchbook" style is instructive and visual. In every illustration, you can see traces of the creative process. All illustrations and sketches are supplemented with each outfit's matching technical drawings (flat fashion sketches). The "Step by step process" concept reinforces the book's instructional value. More than 200 hand-drawn illustrations and sketches in the book illustrate every step and every layer. It is a unique book created by professionals for professionals. The book is practical and visual and makes the complexity of the fashion drawing process easier to comprehend.

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.

The ultimate guide to drawing fashion flats. Beginners will be drawing flats like a pro in no time. Professional users will find a wealth of tips and tricks to increase productivity. Learn to: Master the pen tool; Draw technical flats with ease; Organize layers for quick and easy editing; Create custom brush and symbol libraries; Design seamless patterns; Generate multiple color ways fast. A great companion text for Illustrator for Fashion Design: Drawing Flats at Lynda.com

Fashion Sketchbook, 6th Edition, demystifies the fashion drawing process with simple, step-by-step directions. Now in full color and completely revised, with updated instructions and images throughout, this introductory text explains how to draw women, men, and children, pose the figure, develop the fashion head and face, sketch accessories, add garment details, and prepare flats and specs. Abling's detailed, easy-to-follow lessons are accompanied by Women's Wear Daily photographs from the showroom and the runway that accelerate comprehension and lead to the diversification of drawing skills. PLEASE NOTE: Purchasing or renting this ISBN does not include access to the STUDIO resources that accompany this text. To receive free access to the STUDIO content with new copies of this book, please refer to the book + STUDIO access card bundle ISBN 9781501395352. STUDIO Instant Access can also be purchased or rented separately on BloomsburyFashionCentral.com.

Fashion design begins in the designer’s creative mind, and drawing is the crucial next step to communicating creative ideas to others to bring those ideas to reality. Clear, expressive drawings engage and bring together people in patternmaking, production, marketing, and all other facets of the fashion business, ensuring that everyone shares the same vision that originates with the designer. Kathryn Hagen brings decades of experience teaching design students how best to translate their ideas into drawings. She opens with basic drawing skills using both hand tools and computer techniques before moving on to applying those skills to both the human figure and the specifics of various types of clothing. Throughout the book she exposes designers to myriad techniques and styles, encouraging each individual to discover what works best for him or her. Each chapter ends with practice exercises as well as visual references to review and reinforce material learned in the chapter lessons. Videos demonstrating hands-on examples can be viewed at waveland.com/Hagen, with emphasis on distressed fabrics and novelty treatments. 84 pages of color present a wide variety of rendering techniques.

DIVExamine the basic elements and principles of fashion design in this comprehensive reference that defines each of the basic elements. This must-have book enhances visual literacy, and inspires with dynamic and memorable visual references./div