/fa/ - Fashion

[Anonymous No.7105332]

There was a thread like this yesterday but it died out. Basically, other than practicing how can I improve on drawing fashion related things. Is there a book on this that you guys can recommend. Any tutorials?? I'm pretty bad but enjoy it anyway so help me out. Thx

[banana No.7105345]

do you have any horse drawings

[Anonymous No.7105372]

>>7105332
>already bald

well played

[twerk it No.7105378]

ninehead media books are fine
id scan mine but theyre like a million pages a piece and i don't want to disassemble them

its not necessary to get a fashion illustration book tho unless u want to do fashion illustrations, though they do have better coverage of how to draw garments than most general illustration books.

[meta !p8hO9X589g No.7105388]

Go to /ic/ and read the sticky.

You need to study lots of anatomy and practice drawing from the model before you can dive into clothing. Making the weight and texture of clothing look convincing in a drawing is really hard, and you need a solid anatomical foundation to build upon.

[Anonymous No.7105393]

>>7105378
hey twerk is this good
http://www.amazon.com/Vogue-Sewing-Book-Patricia-Perry/dp/B000HFCHHM

[Anonymous No.7105397]

>>7105372
kek
>entertained llyyna

[Anonymous No.7105396]

Stop drawing on lined paper.

[Anonymous No.7105400]

>>7105378
Where do I find this? Nothing on google

>>7105388
thank you, that's a really cool pic btw

[twerk it No.7105401]

>>7105393
i cant personally vouch for it

[twerk it No.7105411]

>>7105401
by which i mean, i haven't read it, so i won't comment on it.

[Anonymous No.7105409]

>>7105401
i already own it
gram gave it to me

can you vouch for something :^)

[meta !p8hO9X589g No.7105422]

This book really helped me as a kid learning to draw.

http://www.amazon.com/Experiential-Drawing-Robert-R-Dvorak/dp/1560520655

[Anonymous No.7105569]

>>7105422
thank you will order this

[Anonymous No.7105654]

I don't understand how people can design things. Like, how do you do it? Everything I draw is so uninspired. What do you do? Look at a fuckton of inspiration?

[meta !p8hO9X589g No.7105703]

>>7105654

You have to look for inspiration outside of fashion itself.

Get books on architecture, biology, astronomy, film, graphic design, photography. Study everything. Cultivate a lifestyle of visual appreciation. Build mood boards. Assemble all the images that resonate with you. Scan strange things from old books in the library. Learn Photoshop. Take nude model drawing classes, they are often really cheap at local community art centers or colleges.

[Anonymous No.7105710]

>>7105654
look at cool 90s runway n try to emulate shit while adding your own things to them

[Anonymous No.7105765]

>>7105703
ew that would feel so creepy to wear.
I've said a million times that defense is my fave thing ever though!
On the bio side, I gravitate more towards the nautilus. I love sea creatures and the spiral of a shell is so beautiful. More for accessories, can't really make silhouettes that match lol.

[twerk it No.7105807]

>>7105654
pay attention to how designers do it, particularly the way they riff on a single block.

eg most of rick's leathers are built on just one block, and the only thing that changes is the front panelling and closure. on the women's he'll also riff on the sleeves or add panels into the back. go to a webstore that has good, high quality pics from a lot of angles and compare multiple iterations of a jacket to see how he's cut open, removed, or added panels.

[Natalie Portman !lsaxZALrTI No.7105800]

Also everything that meta said was spot on, for the most part. Of you follow the right path you will be able to transcribe everything in the world into clothing.
You will be able to look at paintings, the interior of a coffee shop, wildlife Etc and be able to extract silhouettes, color palates etc. it's like playing with Legos.

Then you will see that the real difficulty is not creation, but figuring out what's worth creating. What's original? What does the world need?

[twerk it No.7105847]

>>7105807
i mean, it doesn't have to be a jacket, you'll start to see this in any product line when you start paying attention for it

[twerk it No.7105851]

>>7105847

[twerk it No.7105856]

>>7105851

[twerk it No.7105862]

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[Anonymous No.7105876]

>>7105332
I love looking at designer sketches.

[twerk it No.7105870]

>>7105862

[Anonymous No.7105892]

>>7105876

[droak No.7106134]

I think if you study basic anatomy your sketches will become a lot better. Here is kinda how I start out most of my sketches.

working on texture, colours and understanding how fabric folds is really important for fashion drawing.

practice is the most important step, but dont take it to seriously, you have to think it is fun, else there is no point.

[twerk it No.7106152]

>>7106134
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_mK9CebB4

[Anonymous No.7106281]

Erm, mushrooms?

> I still can't.
> Thanks for the advice though, anons.

[twerk it No.7106293]

>>7106281
you're trying to abstract from mushrooms? i'd go a step further. scalloped hems, ribbed gills, moldy colorways...

[twerk it No.7106302]

>>7106293

[twerk it No.7106313]

>>7106302

[Anonymous No.7106316]

>>7106293

Scalloped hems do sound fun.

[Natalie Portman !lsaxZALrTI No.7106342]

>>7105876
That one looks nice, so sleek!

Also yeah twerk has got the right idea, you need to remove all hints that make your piece referential. Part of how all that " good artists steal and make their own" works.

Tommy B talked about something that pertains to this. He said that he looks down upon mood boards and basically anything that is used as an instrument to carry on visual attachments, so to speak. He said he prefers to see a source of inspiration ( an outfit, etc) and let the critical features stand out and resonate within him, instead of analyzing it multiple times and extracting every bit of potency it has.

[Anonymous No.7106437]

>>7106316
Colours yes, no?

[Anonymous No.7108516]

>>7105856
>>7105862
>>7105870
What's her name?

[Anonymous No.7109632]

>>7108516
Lulululu