How to draw fashion figure: Essential figure drawing techniques for women’s wear designers (Fashion Croquis Books) - Softcover

Ivanova, Irina V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984356045 ISBN 13: 9780984356041

Publisher: Art Design Project, Inc, 2019

Synopsis

How to Draw Fashion Figure is a professional, method-based guide to constructing women’s fashion figures from scratch for fashion design use.
The book focuses on how fashion figures are built, modified, and systemically transformed, rather than on copying pre-drawn templates.

It is written for womenswear designers, fashion students, and apparel professionals who need flexible, adaptable fashion figures to support real design work.

What This Book Teaches:

This book presents a structured set of practical techniques that allow you to:

• Draw accurate fashion figures with reduced time and effort
• Modify proportions, body types, and stylistic emphasis
• Generate multiple figure styles from a single base construction
• Adapt figures to different design contexts without redrawing from zero

No prior academic figure-drawing background is required.

Figure Types Covered:

You will learn how to construct and adapt fashion figures for:

• Standard fashion design projects (classic 9-head proportions)
• Runway and couture-inspired elongated figures
• Plus-size fashion figures
• Maternity design figures

Each figure type is treated as a derivation of a common structural logic, not as an isolated style.

Core Methods Explained:

The book teaches two complementary construction approaches:

1. Cutting Method

• Building a fashion figure using paper cutouts
• Manipulating proportions through physical adjustment
• Exploring pose variation through modular figure parts

2. Freehand Drawing Method

• Constructing figures directly with pencil
• Understanding proportional logic rather than copying shapes

You will also learn how to combine both methods to improve accuracy, speed, and stylistic control.

Additional Supporting Resources:

• Basic fashion-relevant face drawing
• Hands drawing fundamentals
• Reference gallery of hairstyles

These elements are included to support figure completeness, not as standalone portrait studies.

Important Notes Before Purchase:

• This book is exclusively for womenswear designers
  (No children’s or menswear figures are included.)

• The focus is on essential, fashion-design-relevant poses, not expressive or narrative figure drawing.

• This book does not teach apparel or garment drawing.
  It addresses figure construction only.

• No pre-drawn fashion figure templates are included.
  The purpose of this book is to help you create your own reusable figure system.

For ready-to-use croquis templates or apparel drawing instruction, other titles in the Fashion Croquis series are more appropriate.

About the Author:

Irina V. Ivanova is a fashion designer and visual artist, and the creator of the Fashion Croquis book series.
Her teaching combines classical figure-drawing training with professional fashion design education and practice.

This book distills over 20 years of college-level teaching in fashion illustration and figure drawing into a clear, practical system tailored specifically to the needs of fashion designers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Art Design Project, Inc
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984356045
• ISBN 13: 9780984356041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 155