Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book: How to draw evening dresses and wedding gowns

Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book: How to draw evening dresses and wedding gowns

by Irina Ivanova
Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book: How to draw evening dresses and wedding gowns

Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book: How to draw evening dresses and wedding gowns

by Irina Ivanova

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Overview

Complexity made easy!
Illustrate an Haute Couture style dress or bridal gown without unnecessary stress and mistakes.
This Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource 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 intimidating, and this book contains a series of clearly depicted details.
With this book on your desk, it is easier to get your project done.
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, and flares
Who needs this book?
• Do you design for a bridal dress shop?
• Are you an evening gown designer?
• Are you creating an elegant, Haute couture-style outfit?
Use the Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book to save time and effort for professional-grade results. This book will be equally valuable to advanced designers and novices in fashion illustration alike.
About the author:
Irina V Ivanova is a fashion designer and visual artist: creator of the Fashion Croquis book series.
The Haute Couture Fashion Illustration Resource Book condenses years of teaching experience and illustration practice. Irina's classic figure drawing training, combined with professional fashion design education and experience, makes her an effective teacher for fashion figure drawing. 20 + years of teaching college-level courses on Fashion illustration and Figure design made this book possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780984356034
Publisher: Art Design Project, Inc.
Publication date: 09/16/2018
Series: Fashion Croquis Books , #4
Pages: 262
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Irina V. Ivanova is the author of Fashion Croquis books and sketchbooks.

As an experienced educator, professional fashion designer, and trained illustrator Irina delights in merging her versatile professional experiences in a blend of fashion, art, and educational resources.
As a fashion illustrator, Irina combines her profound knowledge of clothing design with artistry.
In her fashion drawing books, Irina balances the creative and technical aspects of the clothing design process.
In addition to her Fashion Design publishing projects, as a professional illustrator, Irina creates coloring books, journals, and wall art.

Irina creates her books and art projects in her Florida-based studio.
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