Fashion Design Drawing Course Principles, Practices and Techniques: The Ultimate Handbook for Aspiring Fashion Designers

This is a newly revised and updated edition of the bestselling guide for aspiring fashion designers. Selling nearly 40,000 copies, the original 2003 edition proved to be a popular resource worldwide for students of illustration and fashion design. This new expanded edition increases in extent to 160pp, and includes a new section introducing readers to digital drawing and rendering techniques for fashion illustration, both as the primary media and in combination with traditional methods. The new edition also brings in a complete refresh of the artwork examples shown throughout the book, drawing on contemporary illustrative styles and apparel design, portrayed both in digital and traditional media techniques. It is organized into 24 instructional units to reflect the progression of a course at top design college, covering everything from finding inspiration, observational techniques, lateral thinking, mastery of the drawing media techniques themselves, to the more technical aspects of ga

Caroline Tatham is the lead tutor in fashion at the world-renowned Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. She is well known throughout the European and American fashion industry as a buyer and designer.