Complexity made easy!
Illustrate Haute Couture style dress or bridal gown without unnecessary stress and mistakes.
This book is for everyone who designs, illustrates, or works with "haute couture style" fashion. If you need to illustrate wedding dresses, evening gowns, one of a kind outfits loosely covered by the term "haute couture," this book is for you.
With the Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book, you will
Be more productive. The book is for busy professionals who value their time and effort. The book includes figure drawing templates, so you do not have to draw your fashion illustration from scratch! Select a croquis from the book and sketch over it.
Jumpstart your project! This book breaks through creative blocks by offering ideas of dress silhouettes and inspiring step-by-step drawing demos.
Be focused on the practical aspects of fashion design. You need to illustrate your dress with an understanding of sewing and fabrics. All illustrations of the dress elements in this book were created with the expert knowledge of Haute Couture construction.
Learn how to draw accurately. All drawings in this book are simple pencil drawings with step-by-step demos, making it easier to see the illustration process.
Learn visually. Are you a visual learner? Then this book is for you! The book has almost no text, just terms, and captions. The Haute Couture resource book is not a book to read; it is a tool to practice.
Stay focused on details. In many cases, Haute couture-style dress is all about intricate details. To draw complex design elements accurately and fast could be an intimidating task, and this book contains a series of clearly depicted details. It is easier to get your project done with this book on your desk.
In the Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book, you will find
700+ hand-drawn pencil illustrations
collection of dress silhouettes with examples and analytics
18 haute couture style figure templates
basic terminology of wedding dresses and evening gowns
step by step drawing tutorials
gallery of dress elements such as necklines, sleeves, hemlines, waistlines, trains
gallery of headwear details such as veils, blushers, hair decorations, and flowers
collection of structural elements of dresses and gowns such as cascade, drapery, gathers, pleats, ruffles, flares
Save time and effort and achieve professional-grade results with the Fashion Illustration Resource Book.
This book will be equally valuable to advanced designers and novices in fashion illustration.