How to Draw Fashion Flats: A practical guide to fashion technical drawing (pencil and marker techniques): Volume 2 (Fashion Croquis Books) - Softcover

Ivanova, Irina V

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984356029 ISBN 13: 9780984356027

Publisher: Art Design Project, Incorporated, 2016

Synopsis

Draw fashion flats with ease, accuracy, and confidence using this one-of-a-kind guide.

"How to Draw Fashion Flats" is a comprehensive, practical book on technical apparel drawing. It focuses on pencil and marker techniques, using rulers and French curves to ensure precision. Built on years of experience in fashion design and technical drawing instruction, this guide simplifies the complexity of technical flat sketching into a clear and efficient process.

With more than 700 hand-drawn visuals, it illustrates every step, term, and concept. The text is concise, practical, and designed to help you build fundamental industry skills.

Who Should Use This Book?
Independent fashion designers & small business owners – streamline your workflow by making flat creation and revision more efficient and reliable.

• Fashion professionals – designers, technical designers, and product developers can draw accurate, construction-ready flats.
• Fashion merchandising professionals – use the book as a visual glossary and reference for garment elements and design terms.
• Fashion students – elevate your classwork with professional-level results in patternmaking, technical drawing, and portfolio development.

What’s Inside the Book?

• Step-by-step guides for drawing pants, T-shirts, jackets, swimwear, and skirts
• “Dos and don’ts” illustrated with side-by-side examples
• Visual galleries of garment details and construction elements
• Illustrated glossary of key apparel terms
• Drawing tips from an industry expert
• Figure templates for flats: women, men, children (four age groups), plus-size women, and big-and-tall men
• A gallery of completed projects showing how flats evolve from initial sketches, including fashion illustrations with matching technical drawings

About the Author
Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer and professional visual artist. She is the creator of the Fashion Croquis Books series and multiple fashion croquis sketchbooks, which are used by professionals and students worldwide.

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About the Author

Irina V. Ivanova is a Florida-based educator, fashion designer, and visual artist. Irina delights in merging her versatile professional life experiences in a blend of fashion design, visual art, and teaching.

Trained in tailoring, Irina experienced in all technical aspect of apparel design, apparel construction, and patternmaking. With an advanced degree in fashion design and extensive experience in fashion industry Irina understand every aspect of fashion design process.

As a fashion designer, she blends her technical knowledge of clothing design with artistry. Balancing creative and technical aspects of fashion process Irina creates her books in both real-world practical and artistically stylish way.

Apparel design is just one aspect of her multifaceted creative skills. In addition to expertise and experience in fashion design, Irina is a professional illustrator and trained visual artist. Irina exhibited her paintings and illustrations in multiple art shows, illustrated for a major publishing house and represented as a visual artist by fine art licensing agency.

This fusion of insightful (even technical) aspects of apparel design with highly creative artwork makes Irina's books uniquely stylish and technically accurate at the same time. Art and fashion merged in her books helping each other for the benefit of a reader. Her books are not just "beautiful" books about fashion. Irina’s books are practical guides on fashion subjects and collection of practical resources articulated with artistic talent and illustration skill.

Irina V. Ivanova is committed to creating informative, practical, visual and easy to comprehend fashion books for all levels of skills: from aspiring enthusiast to accomplished professionals in the field.

This book is a second book in the series called "Fashion croquis". Fashion croquis series is a collection of books addressed to fashion professionals and students of fashion schools with visual resources on various aspects of fashion drawing. The series is a reflection of Irina's long term interest to merging all aspects of fashion design: from fashion technical drawing flats to fashion sketch and stylized fashion illustration into professionally accurate an easy to comprehend form.

Irina works from her art studio in Hallandale Beach, Florida, creating visual art and producing fashion design publishing projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Art Design Project, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984356029
• ISBN 13: 9780984356027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213