Fashion designers create original clothing, accessories, and footwear. They sketch designs, select fabrics and patterns, and give instructions on how to make the products they design.
According to the dictionary, a drawing is a picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint. Should this definition be altered to include computer aided drawing? Actually, the use of electronics and software such as CAD software would be considered "digital drawing".
Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium. Instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, wax colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, various kinds of erasers, markers, styluses, and various metals. "Digital drawing" is the act of using a computer to draw.
Fashion Illustration is the communication of fashion that originates with illustration, drawing and painting. It is usually commissioned for reproduction in fashion magazines as one part of an editorial feature or for the purpose of advertising and promoting fashion makers, fashion boutiques and department stores.
Fashion illustrators, also known as fashion design artists, are specialized illustrators who focus on expressing fashion designs and ideas through art. In modern times, they often must be familiar with computer design software and usually hold bachelor's degrees in graphic design or a relevant field. However, a degree is not an absolute necessity.
Fashion drawings are almost any illustration with a focus on fashion, accessories, and related subject matter. Fashion drawings tell stories about clothing, handbags, shoes, jewelry, and more.
Learn more about fashion drawings in our artist guide section.
You might find the technical drawing section to be of interest.
Artists create drawings about fashion to be sold simply as art, but they also develop designs specifically for the fashion industry, magazines, newspapers, public relations materials, etc. Fashion drawings also make fabulous coffee table books.
- A coffee table book is an oversized, usually hard-covered book whose purpose is for display on a table intended for use in an area in which one entertains guests and from which it can serve to inspire conversation. Subject matter is predominantly non-fiction and pictorial. Pages consist mainly of photographs and illustrations.
- Learn about available fashion books.
Some of the most talented and best-known fashion illustrators graduate from a fashion college.
If you are not currently an expert at drawing fashion, you may want to learn more about fashion design schools from the fashion design schools summary.
You may also find interest in our fashion illustration summary page.
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A picture is worth a thousand words. A fashion drawing can be priceless.
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