Fashion drawing
Challenging Part of a Figure Drawing.
Hence the emphasis is more on the Garments fall, draping, the fabric used and the details rather than the details of the fashion figure itself. It’s not meant to be very realistic in terms of the body details but as far as garment goes you can be as realistic as you want to be. I have also seen illustrations that have real pieces of fabric.
One of the most challenging part of a figure drawing however is the face. You can still get away with body not being perfect or looking a bit disproportionate but faces have expressions, they need to look balanced and human (and not aliens!).
In order to achieve accurate and appropriate position of the head and face the best technique that I followed when and I initially started drawing fashion figures was by keeping a medium size ball with lines drawn as half and quarter circle. Though human face isn’t perfectly round, it’s more like an oval shape but that elongation could be added later on.
Once you master making these round shapes you could easily fill in the lower jaw part.
Once you are confident making these round circles with the lines starts adding the lower part of the face, which would be slightly longer, turning this round shape into an oval one. Try to keep eye level line, nose line, lip line and chine line parallel to each other.
Let’s try few poses –
Once you are happy with the shapes, one of the best way to practice them and get a hang of them is by highlighting them with a black marker pen and tracing these figures as many times as possible. Very soon you will be drawing them without any difficulty.
Like any other art form these too require a lot of patience and practice so do keep a note pad handy and soon you will get a hang of it.
All the best !
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