How to Draw Women’s Wear: A practical guide to fashion drawing for clothing designers - Couverture souple

Ivanova, Irina V.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 098435607X ISBN 13 : 9780984356072

Editeur : Art Design Project, Incorporated, 2019

Synopsis

How to Draw Women’s Wear is a professional, visual-first guide to fashion drawing created for clothing designers, fashion students, and industry practitioners who need their illustrations to communicate clearly and accurately.

The book is designed for visual learners and working designers. Its focus is on drawing garments, not decorative fashion art. It demonstrates how to translate design ideas into precise, readable illustrations that are understandable to patternmakers, production teams, and collaborators.

Inside the book:

• A systematic approach to drawing women’s wear by hand using a pencil and a black marker
• Garment-focused illustration methods emphasizing structure, proportion, and construction
• Step-by-step visual demonstrations showing the progression from sketch to finished design
• Practical do’s and don’ts of clothing illustration to help avoid common drawing errors

The book combines the functions of a reference manual, visual guide, and working tool. Fashion figure templates, garment templates, technical references, and drawing examples are presented side by side to support a practical design workflow.

Fashion figure templates included:

• Classic 9-head fashion figures
• 12-head figures (fashion and junior standards)
• Plus-size figures
• Maternity figures

All figure templates are provided in front, back, side, and three-quarter views, with key construction lines (princess, bust, hip) to support accurate apparel illustration.

What this book is

• A practical fashion drawing resource for women’s wear
• A tool for clear professional communication, not expressive illustration
• A reference for designers working with patternmakers and production teams
• A visual system for understanding garment structure through drawing

What this book is not

• Not a sketchbook
• Not a general drawing course
• Not a fashion illustration art book
• Not focused on stylization, rendering effects, or experimental fashion imagery

About the author:
Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer and fashion illustrator with professional experience in apparel design, garment construction, and fashion drawing. Her work focuses on creating clear, structured visual tools that support real-world design workflows and professional communication in the fashion industry.

This book is part of the Fashion Croquis series —a collection of professional resources developed to support garment-focused design thinking, fashion drawing, and apparel development. The series includes dedicated titles for women’s, men’s, and children’s wear designers, each book addressing a specific stage of the design process, from conceptual sketching to technical visualization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Art Design Project, Incorporated
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 098435607X
• ISBN 13: 9780984356072
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg