New Fashion Figure Templates - Expanded edition E-Book

Patrick John Ireland

• Herausgeber: Batsford
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 49

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The bestselling New Fashion Figure Templates has been providing help for fashion students and fashion designers for decades and this new expanded edition will provide help for generations to come. The new edition includes over 200 templates of men, women, teens, and children on perforated pages for easy pull out, which can then be scanned. Costumers will also be provided with access to download a range of templates direct from the internet. The templates include figures in movement - with attitude and in classic elegant poses – from a variety of angles including full-length poses, three-quarter length poses, back views and front-on poses. The figures may be copied or photocopied and enlarged from the book or used as a guide to develop your own illustrations. This is a very useful tool for fashion students and designers, providing them with strong visuals for their work by making the most of templates created by one of the world's leading fashion illustrators, Patrick John Ireland. But they can overlay their own designs on to the templates to ensure the work bears their own creativity or use the scans as a basis for digital designs. A new chapter provides over 150 different fashion details from the author, ranging from sleeve shapes, hemlines, tucks, collars, drapes, gathers, pleats, and pockets.

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Contents

Introduction

Womenswear

Menswear

Childrenswear

Accessories

Colour and presentation

Fashion details

Index

Introduction

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The average figure proportions are 7½ head measurements. Fashion figures are 8–8½ head measurements, with the extra length added to the legs.

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The purpose of this book is not only to help fashion design students to develop sketching techniques, but also to hone their skills for creating and communicating design ideas for presentation.

Many students of design find it difficult in the early stages to sketch the human figure and the methods illustrated throughout this book will be helpful in developing these skills.

The book is arranged in sections to cover the different stages of fashion design drawing and illustrative techniques for women, men and children of different age groups. It then moves onto fashion details, so that you can consider the finishing touches to your designs such as hemlines, collars and fastenings.

It explains how to use figure templates and describes simple methods for developing figure poses as an aid to expressing design ideas.

The figure template enables the student to sketch and design in a free style over the impression of the figure with the use of semi-transparent layout paper, a light box or by scanning into a computer and enlarging to the size required.

The average figure proportions are illustrated, from 7½-head measurements to the more exaggerated figure, often elongated to give more elegance or to convey a stronger image.

The proportions of a more exaggerated figure may vary from 8-, 9- or 10-head measurements. The length is added to the legs from the waist or knee. All other proportions of the figure remain the same with some exceptions; when producing highly stylized fashion drawings the exaggeration may be extreme, with emphasis on large hands, feet and general proportions of the figure.

All the figures in this book can be pulled out and scanned or traced, or you can download digital version online at:

http://www.pavilionbooks.com/new-fashion-figure-templates/

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Communication through drawings

Design development

In the earliest stages of developing a design collection, the designer’s sketches should be executed quickly, allowing the ideas to flow. At this stage of the design process they need only be drawn as roughs, a method often referred to as ‘brain storming’.

Developing ideas in diagrammatic form known as ‘flats’ can be effective, and will help when developing related ideas and building up a unified collection.

Some designers draw in a more controlled style while others prefer a freer style. It doesn’t matter at this stage, as these roughs are for personal reference only. It is also helpful to transfer the flat design drawing onto the figure using the figure templates, relating the proportions and layering of the garments to the figure.

Working drawings

Final presentation illustrations often need to be supported with working drawings or ‘flats’. These drawings have to be clear, accurate and drawn in a diagrammatic form. The working drawing should convey exactly how the garments are cut and clearly indicate details of collars, pockets, seam placement and trimmings, and also any proposed style features. Fabric samples are often included.

Presentation drawings

Presentation drawings are used on many different occasions, for example when showing design ideas to clients, entering fashion design competitions, setting up displays of work for exhibitions, as well as for portfolio work for interviews and assessments.

The presentation drawing should be the finished drawing in a collection of designs that projects the intended fashion image. Careful thought should be given, not only to drawing design garments, but also to whether the pose of the figure reflects the mood and occasion. Hairstyles and accessories should also be indicated in order to achieve an overall effect. Consideration should be given to the style of illustration to ensure that the work is shown off to best effect. Working drawings and fabric samples may be incorporated with the designs or illustrated on a separate sheet of paper or board.

Many different techniques may be used for the presentation of work. The mounting and layout of work especially needs to be considered. Photographs and different colour effects may be introduced to complement the illustrations. The camera, photocopier and computer can also be valuable tools for presentation techniques. Care must be taken not to let the presentation of the work overpower the design itself.

Examples of presentation work are shown in colour.

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• The centre of balance is an imaginary vertical line drawn through the body indicating the leg which is taking the weight of the figure. When half the body body weight is on either side of the line the balance of the body weight is taken on both legs. It is known as the balance or axis line.

• A lightly drawn line following the contour centre line of the body will serve as a guide when placing design details.

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Fashion figure proportions

The human body is made up of simple solid forms. It is helpful to think in terms of basic forms and to understand the essential mass of the separate parts, placing them in their correct proportions and relationships. Think of the form of the figure as if it were made of solid separate shapes.

The form should be seen as simple blocks based on the cube, cylinder and sphere.

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Drawing from life

Most fashion design courses include sessions allotted to life and fashion drawing. When a model is being drawn in a standing position, it is much harder for even an experienced model to keep the pose for a long period of time. The length of the pose will vary between five and twenty minutes. It is helpful if you can persuade a friend to model for you to give you extra time to practise drawing from life.

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• Figure poses developed from simple forms and shapes, using the 8-head measurement.

• When developing the figure from imagination it is important to view the body in terms of simple basic solid volumes before developing details and subtlety of form.

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