Sketching for Fashion Design

Basic Sketching Techniques for Fashion Designing

What's Inside

This Fashion Sketching Course is for beginners, with an interest and passion for designing fashion. In this Course students will learn:

  • How to draw a "9-Head Croqui"
  • How to use a Croqui as a template to start sketching fashion ideas.
  • Body movement and creating an "S" shaped silhouette.
  • Balancing the body and use of the Plumb Line.
  • Pencil techniques to create "shirring/gathers", and shading, and coloring.
  • Creating a "fashion diary-journal" to use as source of inspiration to influence ideas for designing.
  • Differentiate garment closure between men's wear and women's wear
  • Create your own style.
  • And some inspiring words of wisdom...

Course Curriculum

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Nino Via

~ A fashion industry expert passionate about consulting and empowering design teams in cultivating strategic creative growth and launch strong successful Brands.

~ Applying my expertise in analyzing design principals, maintaining optimum manufacturing practices and implementing social media use, leads to a Leading Brand.

~ As a Consultant for SAMSUNG C&T America, Inc., the opportunity to introduce new Brands to Samsung's infinite available resources and thus elevate the Brand to global visibility, is priceless.

~ As former Curriculum Development Coordinator of the Fashion Design program at FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, LA) excellent leadership skills were essential in managing, supporting and increasing faculty efficiency — writing annual faculty reports and conducting personal reviews, inspired and optimized their performance.

~ As a Fashion Photographer, "Nino Via Studio" - www.ninovia.com - working with Top Models and Celebrities, further refined artistic style and esthetic details.

~ Born and raised in Rome (Italy), speaking fluent Italian was an asset while at Ralph Lauren, when supervising sample-room responsibilities included manufacturing in Italy — global networking: a principal paradigm shift in the modern business of fashion.

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