Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book

Complexity made easy! Illustrate Haute Couture style dress or bridal gown without unnecessary stress and mistakes. This book is for everyone who designs, illustrates, or works with "haute couture style" fashion. If you need to illustrate wedding dresses, evening gowns, one of a kind outfits loosely covered by the term "haute couture," this book is for you. With the Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book, you will Be more productive. The book is for busy professionals who value their time and effort. The book includes figure drawing templates, so you do not have to draw your fashion illustration from scratch! Select a croquis from the book and sketch over it. Jumpstart your project! This book breaks through creative blocks by offering ideas of dress silhouettes and inspiring step-by-step drawing demos. Be focused on the practical aspects of fashion design. You need to illustrate your dress with an understanding of sewing and fabrics. All illustrations of the dress elements in this book were created with the expert knowledge of Haute Couture construction. Learn how to draw accurately. All drawings in this book are simple pencil drawings with step-by-step demos, making it easier to see the illustration process. Learn visually. Are you a visual learner? Then this book is for you! The book has almost no text, just terms, and captions. The Haute Couture resource book is not a book to read; it is a tool to practice. Stay focused on details. In many cases, Haute couture-style dress is all about intricate details. To draw complex design elements accurately and fast could be an intimidating task, and this book contains a series of clearly depicted details. It is easier to get your project done with this book on your desk. In the Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book, you will find 700+ hand-drawn pencil illustrations collection of dress silhouettes with examples and analytics 18 haute couture style figure templates basic terminology of wedding dresses and evening gowns step by step drawing tutorials gallery of dress elements such as necklines, sleeves, hemlines, waistlines, trains gallery of headwear details such as veils, blushers, hair decorations, and flowers collection of structural elements of dresses and gowns such as cascade, drapery, gathers, pleats, ruffles, flares Save time and effort and achieve professional-grade results with the Fashion Illustration Resource Book. This book will be equally valuable to advanced designers and novices in fashion illustration.

Men's fashion illustration is a neglected subject. Most of the books on fashion illustration focus on women's wear. Can we change it? Let us try. It is a unique book created by professionals for professionals. The book saves time and makes the challenge of men's wear fashion illustration doable. What makes this book unique? Figure drawing templates of the male figure. All croquis templates in the book are styled and designed for fashion men's wear illustration. The "Men's wear fashion illustration resource book" is the only book on the market with that many different poses for men's fashion figures. A step-by-step visual guide for fashion drawing: this is the only men's wear illustration book that shows you the completed drawing and the process's main steps from the concept to completion. Sketches and illustrations in this book show how apparel fits the body and how it looks in different poses and movements. This book includes raw sketches and shows specific details of sketching. The book is a practical guide on how to illustrate men's wear design from a quick sketch to an accomplished illustration. The broad range of garment types and styles: the book depicts multiple types of apparel. The book is not limited only to formal or athletic wear. The "Men's wear fashion illustration resource book" is a comprehensive collection of different looks in different styles. Selection of relevant men's wear terminology: The book includes multiple practical terms and visual examples. The book is, in part, an illustrated dictionary of menswear design terminology. Written annotations for each illustration are part of the book's page layout and make it easy to understand types of apparel, names of garment elements, and accessories. Written terminology and clearly depicted visuals make this book an excellent reference source. The book is ideal as a visual reference for fashion professionals and students. What is in the book? Templates: men's figures, faces, and hairstyles. Step-by-step process of drawing menswear on the croquis How to draw men's t-shirts, dress shirts, casual jackets, boxy jackets, sweaters, shorts, hats Mix and match bottoms and tops for men's wear projects. Step-by-step fashion illustration process. Gallery of men's wear fashion drawing projects. Resources for drawing men's fashion accessories. Hats, neckwear, and shoes. Gallery of garment details relevant to men's wear. Visuals and terms. Gallery of sketches. A collection of sketched men's wear ideas. Different looks and styles in the book illustrate how versatile menswear fashion is. Who should use this book? The book is for independent men's wear designers or small business professionals in the menswear market. Drawing fashion ideas for the menswear market is easier and more consistent with this book. The book is for fashion design, apparel technical design, and garment product development professionals. Draw accurate menswear fashion illustrations with this book. The book is for fashion merchandising professionals interested in menswear. Use the book to reference garment elements terms and a glossary of menswear garment types. The book is for students studying fashion design, patternmaking, and merchandising. With the "Men's wear fashion illustration resource book," a student's men's wear project can reach a level of professional competency. With this book, you can draw menswear fashion fast, with style and confidence. Who created this book? Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer with international experience and a professional visual artist with a history of multiple solo art shows. Irina is the author of fashion drawing books, project books, and sketchbooks with original figure croquis templates for clothing designers. She created the "Fashion Croquis Books" line of practical fashion drawing books for visual learners and busy professionals. Fashion Croquis Books include: "Children's wear fashion illustration resource book," "How to draw fashion flats," "Haute couture Fashion illustration resource book," "How to draw a fashion figure," and "How to draw women's wear " books. Irina created a line of books( tutorials, activities, and sketchbooks) for "future fashion designers," teenagers interested in fashion, fashion illustration, and fashion design. In her free time, when not creating fashion drawing books for clothing designers, as a relaxation and a creative outlet, Irina creates coloring books and journals as a reflection on her love of cooking, cats, and kids.

Fashion illustration workbook for future fashion designers is a practical activity book for creative teenagers interested in fashion and fashion design. The book includes drawing prompts and illustrations in pre-colored lines designed to render and color. The Fashion illustration workbook includes 10 projects united by style but open for creative interpretation. What makes this book different: the designs included in the book are real-life professional standards. The book is fun and easy to follow; however, it holds the level of professional fashion illustration and is excellent for developing your first fashion portfolio. Learn professional-level of fashion drawing skills while having fun. Creative Fashion Illustration Workbook includes inspirational illustrations for inspiration. How to use the book · Use pencils, markers, crayons, gel pens, or a combination of coloring art media to color this book. · To reduce the smearing of your drawing, keep a clean sheet of paper under your hand. · Place an extra sheet of paper under the page you are coloring to prevent ink from bleeding through or avoid marks and grooves underneath the coloring page. · Like what you accomplished? Frame it!! Sprat your fashion illustration gallery or give it as a creative, unique gift What is in the book? · 10 coloring pages · 20 looks to color and render · step-by-step drawing demos to follow · color creatively with design inspirations from the book Who should use the book? · creative teenagers who are thinking of a fashion career · beginners who are interested in fashion drawing as a fun and inspirational activity · fashionistas of all ages who want to make a fashion statement in the form of art and fashion drawing The book is a creation of fashion designer and illustrator Irina V Ivanova, author of the Fashion Croquis Books and Fashion Croquis Sketchbooks

Illustrate your children's wear project with ease, style, and accuracy! This book shows how to draw children's wear without having to learn figure drawing. The book includes all you need to get your project done. Use figure templates and sketching examples from the book to complete your project. Let's get started: - select a template from a variety of age groups and movements - place a paper over it and - sketch your children's wear idea. It is the most efficient way to have your project done! The book shows how to sketch on a figure and how to turn a sketch into a completed illustration. Choose a figure for your project from the selection of age groups and body movements. There are sets of ready-to-use figures for 0- 1, 1-3, 4-6, and 7-10 years old children. The templates in the book are designed to show apparel from any side with various poses and movements. The book combines visuals of garment details with basic terminology as written captions. Such a "visual dictionary" component enhances the book's usefulness as a designer's reference resource. All drawings in the book were illustrated with a simple pencil. Sketch illustrations show original roughness and spontaneity. This "sketchbook" style is instructive and visual. In every illustration, you can see traces of the creative process. Some "step by step process" tutorials are included reinforcing the instructional value of the book. Fashion sketching with the book is less stressful and creates a smooth designer's workflow. Drawing children’s fashion illustrations becomes fun and accurate when using the Children's Wear Fashion Illustration resource book by Irina V. Ivanova

"How to Draw Women's Wear" is a hands-on, actionable guide to fashion drawing for busy fashion professionals who want to develop a highly productive drawing process; for fashion students who are in the process of developing their drawing style; and for clothing designers who want to make illustrations properly interpreted by all team members. The book focuses on drawing by hand (pencil and black marker), demonstrating methods and techniques of illustrating clothing and structural elements of design. Created for visual learners; the book contains virtually no text, only captions. The book includes a collection of fashion drawing templates for main women's wear figure types allowing you to focus on apparel drawing to illustrate clothing the way it is actually designed. Avoid mistakes in clothing design illustration; the book includes a special section with dos and don'ts of garment drawing. The book combines features of a reference book, a visual guide, tutorial, and template book. Figure templates, garment templates, terminological references, step-by-step drawing demos, sketching examples illustrating a progression of an idea from a sketch to completed illustration: all are parts of the same book. Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer by trade, a classically trained visual artist, and an experienced educator. "How to Draw Women's Wear" is the latest book in the Fashion Croquis book series.

How to draw fashion figure: Essential figure drawing techniques for women's wear designers Draw a fashion figure from scratch. Learn how to change any figure template by making simple transformations. Save time and effort on the fashion figure drawing process. The book is a collection of techniques and methods which allow you to: - draw accurate fashion figure with less stress and with minimum effort - modify proportions and body style of the figure - create multiple figures of various styles from the same croquis No previous figure drawing knowledge and skill is required for this book. Beginners: Jump start your drawing process: skip tedious typical figure drawing routine. Find the method which works best for you. Develop your drawing style with practice. Professionals: Explore the flexibility and effectiveness of methods described in the book. Practice the techniques of converting one style into another: mix and match practical methods described in the book. With this book you will learn: How to draw figure styles and proportions o for plus size fashion figures o for maternity designs o for runway model figures inspired by “haute couture” style o for fashion design projects with “nine heads tall” croquis How to create a basic female fashion figure from the beginning, without using any templates: o learn “cutting method” create a fashion figure using paper cutouts o learn “freehand drawing method” create a fashion figure by drawing with a pencil o learn how to manipulate figure by adjusting cutouts into different proportions o learn how to modify poses and movements in the figure template o learn how to combine cutting and freehand drawing methods for better results Book offers additional resources on: · face drawing · hands drawing · gallery oh hairstyles Before you buy the book, please make a note that: · The book is for womenswear designers: there is no children’s figure or male figure study in the book. · The book focuses on essential, standard, fashion design relevant poses and movements. · The book is all about drawing a figure: we do not study apparel drawing in this book. If you are looking for resources on apparel drawing use other Fashion Croquis books from the same book series. · We do not offer figure drawing templates in this book. This book helps you to create your figure template. If you are looking for pre-drawn, ready for use figure templates for fashion, we suggest you use other Fashion Croquis books from the same book series. About the author: Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer and visual artist: the creator of the Fashion Croquis book series. Book condense years of teaching experience and illustration practice. Irina’s classic figure drawing training combined with professional fashion design education and experience makes her an effective teacher for fashion figure drawing. 20 + years of teaching college-level courses on Fashion illustration and Figure drawing made this book possible. The book “How to draw fashion figure” by Irina V. Ivanova offers you a collection of practical, easy to use, original figure drawing techniques which you do not find in a typical fashion drawing book.

Organize and simplify the creative workflow process with a Fashion sketching journal. An effective tool for fashion design collection development and portfolio building. This journal is the all-in-one fashion project workbook with elements os - notebook - sketchbook - organizer Graph paper background and free style layout of figure templates make the design workflow process visual and easy to track. What is in the book? - 12 original layout pages for fashion design sketching with a simple pencil the place for fabric swatches, color information, and notes in each layout different scales and sizes of figure drawing templates laid out in “portfolio style.” all figure templates are in gray: use them as a background for sketching over templates: torso and full figure, 3/4, front and back views with mild movement and still poses sketching examples for inspiration at the end of the book “write in” a table of contents to organize the creative workflow process “all templates at a glance” included for easy reference Who should use the book? womenswear fashion designers: organize ideas and thoughts in one place with notes, color information, fabric swatches fashion students: make womenswear project creative workflow manageable and use these pages for your portfolio and project presentations fashion professional working in de product development and merchandising: make it easy to track trends and ideas by getting a tedious figure-drawing routine Please note that this sketching journal is for womenswear clothing designers: all templates are female model figures. All figure templates .in the journal created by designer, and fashion illustrator Irina V Ivana, the author of the Fashion Croquis Bools series and Fashion croquis sketchbooks

The Art of Dress is a coloring book for creative fashion enthusiasts of all ages who enjoy fashion illustration. The book is a collection of 22 original pencil drawings—dress and evening gown illustrations inspired by the traditions of Haute Couture. The idea for the coloring book "The Art of Dress" was born while creating the "Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book," a book for professional dress designers. All drawings in this book are professional couture design illustrations. All artworks in the book are in two color tones: the tone of the original pencil drawing and a light grey tone (for creative editing or to try different color rendering). The paper in the book is for dry media such as pencils, crayons, sketching sticks, and pastel and is not suitable for watercolor. If you are planning to use markers or gel pens, place extra sheets of paper under the book you are coloring page to prevent ink from bleeding through the page and avoid marks or grooves underneath the coloring page. "Test pages" at the end of the book are for trying out art media before coloring.