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Essential Fashion Illustration
By Maite Lafuente ( Rockport Publishers )
Release Date: 2006-02-01
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This book's aim is to submerge the reader in the world of illustration. The first section ranges from how to start to draw a human figure to the techniques to stylize and synthesize it. This section provides a large amount of figures in different poses, as well as hands and feet-often the most difficult parts - in diverse postures and angles. However, in the field of fashion it is also essential to know how to draw fabric, and even more important to know how to draw the folds of clothing. The items of clothing are presented as much in technical drawing as in figures in movement, and forming light and shadow is also explained, as this gives quality to the illustration.

The second part of the book revolves around color and the different techniques with which one can work: watercolor, wax, pastel, and so on. All the drawings that appear constitute a brief exhibition of the changes that the fashion world has experienced and with this in mind a path has been laid which starts in 1900, illustrated in watercolors, and finishes in 2000, illustrated in pencil. The goal of this volume is to uncover the reader's desire to paint and to provide him with some of the secrets that will encourage him to do so. After all, experience is the most effective way to learn, whatever the subject.


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Product Reviews:
  Pros and Cons 
Pros: Great illustrations for the artist learning to draw the human body.
Cons: Only one body type and covers only one age group. So that's a pro for fashion folks, a con for Artists.
  Awesome! ( solla_franska )
this one is really good for over all fashion illustration. a must have for rising designers!
  Great Resource! 
This is a great book for all those fashion illustration enthusiasts! Whether you are contemplating a professional career or are exercizing your creative talent, this is a great book to start with. It is well executed - the illustrations break down into phases so you can sketch with some clarity. I highly recommend this book. I was so excited when I bought it that I immediately ran out to buy sketch materials and get started right away!
  Fantastic 
The images in this book are unreal.

If you want to learn how to draw figures which look natural and have a realistic flow with posture and movement - this is the book for you.

I got it for my old girl for Xmas and she LOVES it.
Money well spent.
  Very concise, step by step book! ( webmasterchik )
Highly recommended! This book offers step by step instructions on drawing the figure and its proportions. If you want to learn how to draw, better yet, illustrate fashion, this is the book for you. Perfect for beginners!