Drawing: Clothes on the Female Fashion Figure

This is from a DVD that accompanies the book Fashion Illustration for Designers by Kathryn Hagen. Ms. Hagen is a fashion illustration instructor at Otis College.

Ms. Hagen is very adept at creating lovely, stylized figures, heads and croquis for fashion design. Her tools include: Copic markers, Prismacolor pencils and markers, Tombo brush pens, gouache, liner pens and Milky Gel pens.

Even if you don't study fashion illustraion per se, this book is an excellent resource for improving your skills with drawing and rendering the clothed figure. You can find it here
http://www.amazon.com/Fashion-Illustration-Designers-Kathryn-Hagen/dp/0130983...

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[pelius3]

you're tracein you can see tha shadow under :P sry

[xxxqwertxxx]

Its not unusual for fashion designers to use a figure underneath as a guide when drawing clothes alone, as it can be rather tricky to quickly draw well proportioned and natural looking clothes without a body as a guide.

[dragonhead00]

It's obvious you don't know what's going on so instead of trying to catch someone being deceptive you shut up and learn. The artist most likely drew the figure underneath. Even if she didn't, the skill she shows on this video is impressive.

[giveanerdahugstudios]

I like it see some people are born talented and some oh well are NOT.....so don't be jealous because your not try something that you like even if your one of these people how are not talented

[carrollynnmoon]

Fashion designers are not "artists". "They just need to get their fashion idea on paper for purposes of buying supplies and creating the outfit. Fashion show audiences do not see the drawings, but the models wearing the clothes. I've seen fashion designers that draw like children - yet their fashions are beautiful and creative. They are not supposed to be adding details to the figure , face, and hair, but creating the clothing. Period...MOON

[xEpIcDiNoSaUrSx]

This is very cool. It really helped me with my fashion design classes. Apparently I have to take them in my line of work which is modeling :/

[SpyAllex]

Drawing the body is not the thing, creating GREAT clothes that is the job, so tracing or not where's the heck??

[Shinozka]

For all those saying she's tracing. So? Artists do trace when they're learning, and no one is born good at drawing. You learn by tracing and obviously she doesn't do this a lot. Ugh. People.

Anyways, this is great! I totally love these videos! :D

[ilgi1000]

uknidan shpargalka asworebs ara? :D :D

[iDraw3G]

@pelius3 lol you're not very smart, are you?

[rachypachy09]

so what people tracings not bad i used to, it was still my own design so does it really matter about the figure

[soccergal567894]

is this whole video just you tracing? :P

[jenlovesrick]

where can i get a free download of this. Unfortunately I can not afford it.