Fashion Artwork

By Sarah Covington


A designer needs to be able to present his clothing idea to the seamstress via the fashion illustration showing the color, texture, and general fit of the garments. These illustrations have remained a critical element of fashion design for hundreds of years. The expansion of the textile industry around the world required fashion illustrators. While contemporary fashion illustrations have been overshadowed because of the interest in fashion photography, designers still draw their designs as a way to display their ideas.

Like any artist, no two fashion illustrators sketch their ideas in the same manner. Fashion artists illustrate their model and apparel using a range of methods and unique styles. Historically, the drawings are faceless and don't display many specifics of the figure since the focal point of the drawing is the garment. Some artists enjoy more of a basic sketch of the clothing as well and use sketching just as a means to get an idea for an overall form. For this form to be shown most ideally, nearly all fashion illustrations display a very slim and elongated physique. Fashion illustrators do this to capture the intended shape of the clothing on the fashion show and magazine models with a similar build.

In the past, most fashion illustrations have been carried out solely with paper and pencil, but the technology nowadays allows a digital medium. Applying computer sketching applications permits designers to easily transfer their ideas around the globe online. Some designers have adopted this new technology and now sketch directly on the computer through the use of tablets, which can replace pencil and paper. Even so, for a lot of detail-oriented designers, these methods don't supply enough control and they still want to draw by hand and scan their images afterward. These pictures may become part of an online design portfolio that everyone can look at.

Having the ability to sketch the body and clothes normally takes countless hours of practice and patience. Usually, students learn these as well as other essential skills in the courses required for a fashion major. For anyone who is serious about fashion illustration, educational institutions, art societies, or even museums generally provide courses. Additionally, there are numerous books and online lessons that will help you learn the subtleties of sketching figures and apparel.

These days, fashion illustration is a commonly acknowledged form of art and is frequently available to buy. With the ability to sell on the internet, fashion illustration artwork is being more frequently displayed in homes and workplaces as well as given as a gift. One of today's hottest fashionable creative gifts is a wedding illustration for the new bride or one of their loved ones. A number of artists even do custom illustrations of the bride in her bridal dress for use as a keepsake of the wedding day. The wedding market is a huge niche within fashion, and these specialty wedding gown designers are pressed to constantly develop innovative designs in order to continue to be competitive.




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