How to Draw & Paint Fashion & Costume Design

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I have a friend Who could draw people I wondered how he managed it. He said don,t go for art books they complicate the process try fashion books everything is simplified this is the reason I bought this book I have never done anything like fashion drawings ever. My daughter likes this book and looks into it to. She comes home from Thailand and brings beautiful silk garments with her I am wondering if this is her reason she is very much into modern fashion.

Bought it for a 12 year old. She enjoys it very much............

this book will explain very simply and clearly how to draw figures and fashion.It would be a great book for young people learning to draw.

I read some of the reviews already posted before buying this book. I'm glad I didn't listen. Though there was validity in those reviews, this is still a worthy and worthwhile book. If I remember correctly, some of the others said that this book doesn't teach you how to draw. It’s true that this isn’t an in-depth teaching tool for fashion illustration, but it does give step-by-step illustrated instructions for drawing. Consider this not a semesters’-long schooling but a crash course in fashion illustration.It starts off with equipment, then moves on into discussing color. Next comes Drawing 101, which briefly touches on form, value, shading, and how to draw with basic pencil, colored pencils, and oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels. Then the last part of the first section is on “People in Perspective.” Again, none is greatly detailed, but the lessons, cursory as they may be, are still there.The next section, Chapter 2, is entitled “1920s–1930s Male and Female Fashions with Walter T. Foster,” in which the body is dissected, starting with heads, then hands and feet, then goes on to male figures, female figures, then ends by showing you how to take what you’ve learned and turn it into a theme: “The Urban Sophisticate” (male) and “The Modern Woman” (female).Chapter 3: “1940s Female Fashions with Walter T. Foster”: This section is devoted to various female types, generally one page each: “The Bombshell,” “The Siren,” “Ladies of Leisure” (2 pages), “The Professional” (4 pages), “The Starlet,” “The Icon,” then comes “Beauty in Action” (2 pages).Chapter 4: “1950s Female Fashions with Viola French”: This breaks down the face, fashion proportions, how to draw the figure in rough sketch, then there’s a section about drawing from sources, even drawing yourself, then how to draw popular styles, folds and patterns, then comes “Rendering Fashions,” which breaks down how to draw various textures, millinery, daywear, eveningwear, lingerie, activewear, then ends with turning your rough black-and-white pencil sketch into watercolor.Chapter 5: “Early 1960s Female Fashions with Viola French”: This starts with the facial look common to the Sixties, then hands and feet, then “Sources to Draw From,” which covers folds, fabric, and patterns, then comes “Poses,” then comes daywear, suits, coats, eveningwear, bridal, lingerie, activewear, and accessories.Chapter 6: “The Art of Costume Designs with Marilyn Sotto”: Because the title of this book is How to Draw and Paint Fashion and Costume Design, the last chapter touches on “Period Costumes” (“Tudor Man/Woman,” “Louis VXI Man/Woman,” “Julius Caesar” and “Roman Woman”) and gives both black-and-white and color renderings, then comes “Performing Arts,” “Television and Film” (black-and-white rendering only), “Showgirls,” (color only), and ends with “Costume Couture” (color only).Again, this book is NOT an exhaustive paperback on drawing (for that, I’d try  Fashion Drawing For Dummies , which Amazon sells and I also own), so, if you’re hoping for a comprehensive work, this isn’t that book. It only gives hasty tutorials on drawing. However, as I said, this book is a Worthy if you’re truly into fashion simply because it’s a blast-from-the-past pictorial of Fashion’s greatest eras. The drawings, themselves, are worthwhile for the historic aspect alone. I grew up not IN these eras but ON them, thanks to my mother who’s a fan of Old Hollywood and of fashion from the Twenties through the Sixties. I cut my eye teeth on these eras, fashion-wise, so I’m thankful I bought this book because it covers these eras and quite nicely. Also, if you, as I, are interested in building up your Fashion library, this really isn’t such a bad book to own. If you’re truly into fashion, you’ll enjoy it, even if you don’t get a design-school-worthy education on illustration.(Regarding the pics: the first is an example from Chapter 1: Introduction. The next two are from Chapter 2: 1920s-1930s and exemplify my statements that this book's a cursory "step-by-step" course, not an in-depth one. The fourth picture is from Chapter 3: 1940s. The fifth is from Chapter 4: 1950s. The sixth is from Chapter 5: Early 1960s. And, finally, the seventh and eighth are from Chapter 6: The Art of Costume Design. My apologies for the amateurish photography, but I hope the photos help you see just what the book offers. Also, my apologies that the pics uploaded sideways and upside-down. I'm new to this and couldn't figure out how to get them right-side-up. I think, however, you can still get a feel for the book despite my wonky photog skills. 😊 ) Fashion Drawing For Dummies