Fashion Design Workshop

This delightful guide offers budding artists the perfect introduction to the fundamentals of fashion figure drawing. Showcasing the hip, girly artistic style of Stephanie Corfee, the step-by-step projects cover a range of looks—from sophisticated and elegant to cool and casual. The book also contains tips on accessorizing with purses, shoes, hats, and more. And for those who are serious about style, Fashion Design Workshop includes a glossary of fashion terms and a collection of model templates so readers can develop their own line of clothing!

Whether their dream is to become the next hot runway designer, develop their own clothing line, or simply combine their artistic skills with a love for fashion, the tips, tools, and step-by-step projects in Fashion Design Workshop Drawing Book & Kit provide budding designers with everything they need to draw an assortment of fashions. Artists will learn to render a variety of fashionable contemporary styles, including a classic red dress, a bohemian outfit, sporty athletic wear, and casual jeans paired with a t-shirt. Also included is plenty of inspiration from past decades and iconic styles, including a Renaissance-era dress, ’40s swing, ’50s rock ‘n’ roll, and others. The project book opens with an overview of the included tools and materials, as well as an introduction to basic fashion design drawing techniques, such as figure proportions, rendering textures, drawing various poses, and tips for rendering details. Aspiring fashion designers and illustrators will find everything they need to create the stylish projects in the book using the materials provided, including a drawing pencil, eraser, 6-double-sided colored pencils, 8 fine-line markers, loose-leaf drawing paper, and pre-printed fashion pose templates corresponding to the projects inside, which artists can photocopy for continued use and endless creative designs.

Skills and techniques for the fashion-minded sewist! Award-winning designer and stylist Joi Mahon shares her love of sewing and fashion design in Designer Joi's Fashion Sewing Workshop. Whether you're new to sewing or want to sharpen your skills, you'll find solid foundational information for learning and mastering sewing techniques including seaming, draping, measuring, making a pattern and more. Throughout the book, you'll find fun, hands-on exercises to help reinforce a new technique. The best part? Each exercise results in a finished piece! Divided into sections including Design and Inspiration, Fashion Sketching, The Design Process and Sewing Terminology and Tools, Designer Joi's Fashion Sewing Workshop makes sewing fun, easy and approachable--while still achieving amazing results.

From the initial spark of inspiration to the sewing of the last seam, this advanced manual to knitwear design provides knitters with the foundation to take their projects to the next level. The five exceptional projects demonstrate the level of uniqueness and beauty that can be achieved with these expert techniques and how to achieve the elusive "perfect fit" that defines a successful end product. Knitters will gain a clearer understanding of commercial pattern instructions, improve their attention to detail with a meaningful test swatch, and acquire a stronger knowledge of proper body and garment measurements.

Discover knitting techniques that allow you to adapt vintage patterns into the perfect fit for modern-day style! Vintage Design Workshop is the guide that retro-loving knitters have been waiting for-a welcome relief for those who have been frustrated by vintage patterns that come in one size only. Divided into two sections, this essential book first teaches you how to update any vintage pattern to accommodate modern sizes and gives advice on choosing substitutes for yarns that are out of production. The second section demonstrates how to adapt modern patterns to create a vintage silhouette, teaching how to mix and match sleeves, necklines, or collars to the pattern of your choice to achieve a vintage look. The author uses one vintage pattern throughout as the basis for separate tutorials on yarn substitution, sizing and gauge, deciding on alterations, adjusting shaping and length, and adding or altering details. Vintage Design Workshop is a key resource for any knitter who is keen on learning how very simple it is to update or customize patterns yourself.

Fashion Design Workshop: Remix is a modern, inclusive, and diverse approach to fashion illustration for up-and-coming designers. In her long-awaited follow-up to the best-selling Fashion Design Workshop, Stephanie Corfee introduces aspiring illustrators and designers to the art of creative expression and individuality through fashion design. While encouraging freedom of expression, empowerment, strength, diversity, and a modern take on individual style, Stephanie shows you how to work and experiment with a variety of mediums to create fashions that range from classic and conventional to wild and whimsical. Begin your exploration of fashion illustration by getting acquainted with the art tools and materials you can use, including graphite and colored pencils, markers, pens, watercolor paint and brushes, and mixed-media materials. Then, learn basic figure drawing techniques, consider approaches to inclusive design, and explore your style preferences with a personal style quiz and inspirational examples of different style types. Put your new knowledge into practice and discover how easy it is to develop eye-catching fashions quickly and easily with step-by-step projects inspired by pop culture and contemporary fashion, including: Iconic Designs featuring such notables as Frida Kahlo, Audrey Hepburn, Jay-Z, and Meghan Markle Everyday Fashions including rock-n-roll chic, after-hours glamour, and sportswear for yoga, surfing, skiing, and tennis Special Occasions such as red carpet glam, prom queen flair, and tuxes both traditional and funky Pull it all together by creating your own mini collections based on a single word or phrase. At the back, find figure templates for a range of body shapes that can be copied and used again and again. Filled with creative ideas, inspiration, and a plethora of art tips and techniques, Fashion Design Workshop: Remix will help you take your fashion illustration game to the next level.

An essential primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Booktakes the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it. This valuable handbook contains the information and ideas essential to planning and executing fashion projects of every scale and distills them in an easy-to-use format that is compact enough to slip into a tote. Linking six central phases in the cycle of fashion—research, editing, design, construction, connection, and evolution—The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Book helps designers develop effective strategies for building a cohesive collection and communicating their vision. The Reference & Specification Book series from Rockport Publishers offers students and practicing professionals in a range of creative industries must-have information in their area of specialty in an up-to-date, concise handbook.

Describes the basic principles of fashion design by looking at the work of hundreds of designers and defining twenty-six important terms in the fashion world, including line, symmetry, texture, pattern, and motif.