Fashion design process starts with drawings.
The new ideas by Fashion designers need to be sketching out first before sewing and tailoring.
Fashion
drawings are quite different from traditional sketches. Usually the
body height is approximately 7-8 times the length of the head.
But the fashion drawings include exaggerated features where the body is
10-12 times the length of the head. It includes elongated neck, arms
and legs. In most of the sketches the weight of the model is more on
one foot then the other , the hip joint on that side will be higher. The
hang of clothing should be noted and where folds and creases occur when
the model moves. Change of movements originates mainly from the hip,
waist and shoulders.
To keep focus on the composition and careful details fashion
artists chose graphite pencil. The result is a striking combination of
realism and fantasy. To express the body they concentrate on the
proportion and movements.
Adding colors to fashion sketches increase the visual impact to the idea.
Fashion
designers make references to art and
original paintings in their work.
In fact some fashion sketches are already artworks.
A fashion
painting is effect , a very personal greeting card that can literally
transcend time or distance to unfold in viewer's mind like a fragrant
and wild newborn flower. Hence the argument might be made that the
artist hails from
Fashion illustrators, who takes the art of fashion sketching to a whole
new level often do "inside their shapes" greatly determines the stile
and expressive content of their artwork.
The
abstract painting
bellow is an original painting on five canvases which was created from
fashion sketches. The painter shows very simple dresses and creates the
atmosphere of the fashion show with the moves of the models only.