How to draw a costume design draft?

Drawing clothing effect diagram is an important means to express design ideas, so clothing designers need to have good artistic skills to reflect the dressing effect of human body through various painting techniques. Clothing renderings are regarded as an important symbol to measure the creative ability, design level and artistic accomplishment of fashion designers, and are paid more and more attention by designers.

There are two kinds of paintings in costume design: one is costume painting, which belongs to commercial painting and is used for advertising, emphasizing painting skills and highlighting the overall artistic atmosphere and visual effects. The other kind is clothing renderings, which are used to show the effects and requirements of clothing artistic conception and technological conception. Clothing renderings emphasize the novelty of design, pay attention to the description of specific forms and details of clothing, facilitate the accurate grasp in production, and ensure that ready-made clothes can perfectly reflect the design intent in art and technology.

The content of clothing design drawing includes three aspects: clothing effect drawing, plane structure drawing and related text description.

1. The content and expression of clothing renderings generally adopt realistic methods to accurately show the effect of human dress. Generally, the proportion of characters with eight heads and eight bodies is adopted to obtain a beautiful sense of form. The innovation of design should be emphasized in the picture, attracting people's attention and depicting the details carefully. The posture adopted by the model of clothing effect diagram is based on the angle and dynamics that are most conducive to embodying the design concept and wearing effect. Pay attention to the center of gravity of the human body and maintain the overall balance. Clothing renderings can be represented by gouache, watercolor, sketch and other painting methods. We should be good at flexibly using the special expressive force of different painting types and different painting tools to show a variety of clothing fabrics and clothing effects. Clothing renderings as a whole require clear outline, beautiful dynamics, concise brushwork, bright colors, skillful and fluent painting skills, which can fully reflect the design intent and give people artistic appeal.

2. Plane structure A perfect fashion illustration will not only give people beautiful enjoyment, but also be cut and sewn into ready-made clothes. The particularity of clothing painting lies in the expression of style and modeling design, and at the same time, it is necessary to clearly point out the cutting and technological production points of structural lines and decorative lines in the whole and various key parts. Plane structure diagram is to draw the plane shape of clothing, including the specific proportion of each part, the internal structure design or special decoration of clothing, and the design of some clothing products can also be described through plane diagram. The plan structure should be accurate and neat, and the proportion and shape of each part should meet the size specifications of the clothing. Generally, it is outlined with monochrome lines, and the lines are smooth and neat, which is conducive to the expression of clothing structure. The floor plan should also include the fabrics selected for the clothing.

3. Textual description After the garment renderings and plane structure drawings are completed, necessary textual descriptions should be attached, such as design intent, theme, key points of process production, selection requirements of noodle accessories and accessories, and specific problems in decoration. , so that the combination of words and pictures, comprehensive and accurate expression of the effect of the design concept.

Fashion illustration is a special painting form with fashion as the main body, which shows the effect and atmosphere of human body after dressing, and has certain artistry and technology.

Fashion illustration is an art, one of the professional foundations of fashion design and a bridge between fashion designers, craftsmen and consumers.

The main performance of fashion illustration is fashion. Without this, it's hard to call it a fashion illustration. Artists, including today, have never lost their passion for fashion for centuries. We can see many people vividly depict fashion works, but these works can't be called fashion illustrations because their subject is people, not fashion. The content of fashion illustration is to show or preview an effect, a spirit and an atmosphere after fashion is worn on the human body.

Another feature of fashion illustration is that it has the duality of artistry and technology. First of all, as a form of painting, fashion illustration is inseparable from the formal language of art. For fashion, fashion itself is the perfect embodiment of art, and fashion illustration represented by painting form, material or creative method is the basic requirement of his creation and painting. Although the recent computer fashion illustration is divorced from the traditional painting tools and materials, from the psychological process of creation and the final visual effect of the computer, computer fashion illustration still belongs to the form category of painting, but its operation process and expression mode are different from traditional fashion illustration. Secondly, the technology of clothing illustration means that clothing illustration, as the professional foundation of clothing design, can't get rid of the characteristics of people-oriented and restricted by clothing production technology, that is, in the performance process, it is necessary to consider the fashion effect of wearing clothes on the human body after the completion of clothing to meet the basic conditions of clothing production.

Classification of fashion illustrations

There are many types of fashion illustrations, which can be roughly summarized into four aspects:

1. clothing design sketch

Fashion design is a work with strong timeliness, which requires designers to quickly capture and record design ideas in a very short time. This special condition makes this kind of fashion illustration have a certain generality and rapidity, and at the same time, readers including designers need to understand the designer's ideas through concise sketches and records. Generally speaking, clothing illustration with this feature is a sketch of clothing design.

The sketch of clothing design can be drawn with any tool at any time and place, even as simple as a pencil or a piece of paper. Usually, the design sketch does not pursue the visual integrity of the picture, but captures the characteristics of fashion to describe it. Sometimes after a simple outline, use a few simple colors to roughly record the idea of color; Sometimes, single-line sketch combined with text description is used to record design ideas and inspiration, which is more convenient and quick. The outline of a character is often omitted or quite simple, even when sketching, it focuses on a certain dynamic trend to show the dynamic preview effect of fashion, while omitting many details of the human body.

2. Fashion renderings

Clothing renderings are more specific previews of clothing design products, which draw the designed clothing vividly, vividly and truly according to the design concept. What people usually call "fashion renderings" is this type of fashion illustration. Accurately speaking, "fashion renderings" is one of the categories of fashion illustrations, and it is the fashion illustrations that we usually express orally. Compared with fashion renderings, fashion illustrations have greater connotations and richer contents, including various forms of fashion illustrations, which vary for different purposes. For example, draw fashion illustrations for magazines, newspapers, etc. And it needs some artistry. Fashion design sketch is used to record design ideas, focusing on recording style and ignoring artistry.

Fashion renderings can be divided into decorative style and realistic style.

Decorative style-Grasping the theme of clothing design conception, appropriately deforming and exaggerating the design drawings according to certain aesthetic forms, and finally displaying the design works in the form of decoration, which is the clothing illustration with decorative style. Fashion illustration with decorative style can not only emphasize and render the theme of fashion, but also beautify the design works as needed. There are various forms, styles and techniques of deformation and exaggeration. When designing fashion works, designers often emphasize the characteristics of the designed works and can adopt various means. Usually the fashion renderings displayed by designers are somewhat decorative.

Realistic style-according to the real effect of clothing design, the result is photo realistic style. Because of the realism of this style, it takes some time to draw, and the designer's work is often tense and busy, so designers are not very willing to draw fashion illustrations in this way. Occasionally, when displaying this style of design drawings, some special fashion illustration techniques will be combined to save time. If you use photo editing, computer design, copy and cut, etc. These are convenient, quick and can achieve good results.

3. Commercial fashion design

Commercial fashion design, in the commercial fashion industry, is another style of fashion illustration that is widely used as a product transaction. It has the characteristics of neatness, readability, clear structural expression and easy processing. Usually, lines are the main form of expression, or lines are used to add faces and painted in light colors. Sometimes, the special parts, backs, surface accessories and structural parts of fashion need special illustrations, or text descriptions and sample auxiliary descriptions. This kind of design drawing attaches great importance to the structure of clothing, and it needs to explain the seams, structural seams, stitches, fabrics and accessories of clothing clearly and carefully. For the description of characters, sometimes it can be completely omitted, leaving only the fashionable parts to stand out. The difference between commercial fashion design and fashion technology is that the final effect of commercial fashion design is still to show the effect and atmosphere after dressing. Although some commercial fashion designs omit characters, their purpose is clear, that is, to make fashion more prominent and distinctive.

4. Fashion art advertising paintings and illustrations

Fashion advertising pictures and illustrations refer to fashion illustrations specially drawn on newspapers, magazines, windows, billboards and posters for fashion brands, designers, fashion products, fashion forecasts or fashion activities. Contrary to commercial fashion design drawings, fashion advertising paintings and illustrations do not pay attention to the details of fashion, but to its artistry, emphasizing the rendering effect of art forms on the theme, and conquering the audience according to the appeal of fashion art.

The artistic styles of fashion advertising paintings and illustrations are varied: the fashion illustrations described by some fashion illustrators are essentially pure paintings, which are the high unity of painting art and fashion art; Some fashion advertising pictures and illustrations are quite concise; And some fashion advertising pictures and illustrations look like a perfect artistic photo.

There is also a fashion painting with the theme of fashion, which is not measured by the value of some businesses (such as advertising and design). ), but as a decorative fashion illustration, with high artistic appreciation. For example, Gruau's fashion illustrations take fashion as the theme, showing the elegance of high fashion and the unique aesthetic taste of painting language everywhere.

Materials and tools of fashion illustration

There are many tools used in fashion illustration. Generally speaking, choosing some common tools is enough to meet the basic drawing requirements. For fashion illustrations made by special methods, we can use some special tools, such as computer tools and pen-spraying tools. Tool materials can be roughly divided into common tools, pigments, paper and special tools. See the bill of materials for fashion illustration tools for details.

Pen is one of the most commonly used tools. You can choose elbow pens or various types of wide-headed pens, but it should be noted that wide-headed pens are characterized by wide lines, and they are not competent for displaying continuous, uniform and curved lines. The ink of the pen can be black drawing ink with good quality, and the pen should always be kept clean to ensure smooth ink.

Pencils-There are many kinds of pencils. You can choose B-type black drawing pencil and water-based colored pencil. Water-based marker can be rendered with clear water to achieve watercolor effect after drawing, and can also be used as a general marker.

Carbon pen-when sketching with a pencil, we often feel that the color is not deep enough, especially when sketching with dark shapes. If you use drawing carbon pen, signature pen or marker pen, you can solve this problem. Because the adhesion of carbon pen is not strong, it can be used with setting liquid to paint after painting, which solves the problem of color fastness after coloring carbon pen.

In the drawing skills of fashion illustration, drawing with marker is a relatively fast method. Because markers can not only express lines and faces, but also do not need to modulate colors, and colors are easy to dry. Different kinds of paper with different textures absorb the color of markers at different speeds, and the results are also different. For paper with fast absorption speed, the painted block is easy to have stripes, and vice versa. With cotton balls or cloth stained with banana oil, the color of oily marker can be removed or faded. Using this feature, we can draw the color effect of pushing halo. Using the transparency of sulfuric acid paper, we can draw the shades of the same color and the overlapping effect between colors.

Pen spray tools-pen spray tools include pen spray and air pump. The air pump ensures sufficient pressure, and the pen can adjust the size of the painted color area to form a stitch or surface. Cover with special covering or paper, etc. You can also spray a refreshing outline. Gouache and water color can be used, but a proper amount of water should be added, neither too much nor too little, so as to spray a uniform color and not dilute.

The study and research of fashion illustration

Learning fashion illustration requires a certain foundation of painting and character modeling. Beginners can master the skills of technological scheme first, and then gradually learn and master some basic knowledge of painting. For example, the basis of character modeling and certain color expression. To learn fashion illustration, you must master certain painting skills and fashion illustration techniques, and you must also master certain fashion knowledge. For example, fashion design, fashion technology knowledge. For readers who have mastered some basic knowledge of painting and fashion design, you can refer to this book to conduct in-depth research and discussion on the expression techniques, artistic styles and computer fashion illustration of fashion illustration, so as to develop in a deeper field in fashion illustration. (transferred from the network)

Fundamentals of Fashion Illustration-How to Draw Human Body

Drawing a good human body is the basis of learning fashion illustration. How to draw a human body?

Body painting is an indispensable basic skill for every figure painter.

Only when artists fully understand the role of various parts of the human body in sports can they draw dynamic graphics.

In the field of fashion illustration art, you must live, study and practice. Learning the sea is endless, and there are always some unknown areas waiting for people to explore. In the process of learning, I often feel that I have made progress, and the lines in my pen have become smoother and more vivid bit by bit.

This chapter introduces you to the techniques of body painting, aiming at enabling students to lay a good foundation for body painting.

Illustrations of different parts of the human body help students understand the proportion of different parts of the human body. The vertical line indicates the size of the paper model. This line is divided into 8 equal parts, and the head accounts for L/8. Divide the whole vertical line into two parts with the midpoint, then divide the upper and lower parts into two parts, and divide the four parts equally from the middle to get eight equal-length parts. The length of each part is the length of the model's head. The average person's body is 7 or 8 heads long, so the ratio of body to head can often be changed to 1: 9 when drawing fashion illustrations. The model on the next page shows how the human body is divided into eight equal parts The model's head is oval, and the shoulder width is three times the head width.

The human body is represented as cylinder, cuboid and ellipse.

Remember, the human body is also an object with a specific shape. In order to fully express this point, different schematic diagrams are needed to represent different parts of the human body.

It is best to draw a sketch gently with a pen at the beginning and show the model graphically. Only in this way can we express the other movements of the model, your own movements in the mirror or the movements in a good photo. It is important to study hard and practice more. You must practice again and again.

At first, we drew an ellipse of the right size on the human body to represent the human head. In order to draw the corresponding facial features such as eyes and nose, factories have to use auxiliary lines: as shown in the figure, draw a vertical line first, and then cross a horizontal line from the midpoint of the vertical line. On this basis, make two more horizontal lines. The center line is where the eyes are drawn, which is the most important thing. If it is a profile image, the ellipse can be tilted at an angle.

As shown in the final work, auxiliary lines can help you determine the positions of eyes, eyebrows, ears, nose and mouth. When drawing a real person, we always imagine a few lines in our minds, so as to draw various movements of the head and the proportion of the corresponding parts.

When we draw the head, we always imagine several auxiliary lines first, because this can help us to correctly describe the parts of the eyes, nose and mouth. As shown in the figure, these imaginary auxiliary lines are several lines around the outer edge of the head, although we can't actually see them.

The performance of various parts of the human body

Eyes:

The eyes are spherical and embedded in the orbit. Always remember that your eyes are spherical when you draw.

Nose:

In painting, the basic shape of the nose can be imagined as a wedge, while the nose in fashion illustrations is only a short touch.

Mouth:

Lips are made up of muscles and have different shapes. Although we can see the model's teeth when she opens her mouth, we don't draw them all at once, but brush them off.

Ears:

In fashion illustration, ears are just a few strokes, but we should know how to draw all the details of ears.

Neck:

In order to correctly understand and show the rotation of the neck and the changes of its various parts, we will give you a schematic diagram to show the muscle tissue in three directions of the neck. In fashion illustrations, the neck is usually drawn slightly longer than normal people, which makes people feel more elegant. The rotation of the neck can be displayed in a staggered way through the outline of the neck.

The basic shape of the neck is cylindrical. If you want to show the neckline of a dress in a fashion illustration, you must show the feeling of a cylinder, which is why you need some auxiliary lines when drawing the neckline.

Arm:

When drawing a character's limbs, we must always remember that they are all three-dimensional and have a spatial shape.

In order to make this point clear, we use simple methods such as curves and circles to represent arms. The outline drawn here is consistent with the basic shape of the human body that we started to show you. The outline of the bones is drawn at the joints.

Hand:

The length of a person's hand is equal to the length of his face from chin to forehead. Because there are many joints on the hand, the movements on the hand are very rich.

We begin to learn by showing the posture of our hands.

We decompose hand movements and show them graphically, which is what we use when drawing the whole human body. Only in this way can we paint our hands carefully and draw every finger well.

It is difficult to draw with one hand, and it needs to be practiced many times. Practice drawing the movements of your hands, or drawing the movements of your hands in photos.

Legs:

The method of drawing arms is also suitable for drawing legs. Feet and hands are not easy to draw, so keep practicing. Sketch is the best method.

Simple anatomy:

Before you really start to draw a human body, it is necessary to understand the muscle tissue and bone structure under the human skin. It is these muscles and bones that give the human body an external shape, which can be seen under the skin.

Please study these two pictures carefully in order to see the scene under the skin. And compare them with your own body structure, so as to help you understand the relationship between the whole muscle structure inside the human body and external performance.

It is not important to know the names of muscles and bones, but anyone who wants to learn the art of fashion illustration must learn anatomy.

Practice drawing the composition of bones, the function of joints and the structure of muscles. These exercises can make it easier for you to learn figure painting and make the characters you draw more energetic.

the human body painting

When you know something about the basic structure and anatomy of human body, you can try to draw a real portrait.

Prepare a drawing board that is not smaller than the size of A3 paper (29cm×42cm), and then prepare a soft pencil (such as HB, B, 1B or 2B) or charcoal pen.

You have to prepare an eraser, but try not to use it if you can. Before your brush falls, study the mannequin carefully and find the lines that best show her body dynamics. Only in this way can you show her with a few strokes on paper.

After this step, you can clearly see whether your painting is properly composed. Maybe you were a little too full at first, maybe you didn't have a place to draw your feet, maybe you drew too left or too right, maybe you have to completely overthrow the repainting.

These mistakes can be corrected one by one after you outline them gently at the beginning. As you know, Hugh starts with the auxiliary line, and then compares his sketch with the model to see what is wrong. You have to constantly compare your paintings with the models, until you feel that the paintings are right, then you can really start to draw some strong styles. At this time, you can keep the correct lines drawn during preparation first, and you don't have to erase them all.

Be careful not to spend too much time sketching.

There is no need to draw too many details at the beginning, which is a problem you should avoid in particular at the beginning. You can put the step of adding light and shade at the end, because it is often a way for beginners to cover up their mistakes. You should outline the model with clear and concise lines from the beginning. There are no shades, no luster changes, only simple line drawing. At this time, the most important thing is to know the basic expression of the model posture, understand the proportion of each part, and draw these with simple lines.

Not everyone can draw the pose of the model correctly at first, so don't be discouraged. You can't expect to draw the right line once. You just need to keep practicing, and I believe the hard work will pay off in the end. After a period of time, you will be satisfied to find that you have made progress.

Once you have overcome the initial difficulties, you can start sketching. Each sketch only takes a few minutes. In these few minutes, the most important thing is to be able to show the posture of the model, the twisting of the body and the lines in proportion to each part. Using a series of sketches to represent the whole process of an action can make your eyes sharper and your hands faster. Sketching is a good exercise, it can make you progress. Doing such exercises can help you master all kinds of acting skills. When drawing with a pencil, you can also try to use a pen and a signature pen. This technique is only suitable for small paintings. Because the lines drawn with such strokes cannot be changed, it forces you to quickly grasp the biggest feature of the model. This is a great exercise, which can make your observation more acute and draw smoother lines. You should try writing brush again and draw with ink. At this time, once written, you can't make any changes. If you don't draw at first, draw another one at once, and so on. This exercise is very useful. For big paintings, you can draw with charcoal and chalk, so that you can be familiar with how to use these painting tools.

It is also very important to constantly change the size of your drawing paper. You can use a pen when the picture is small, and chalk or charcoal when the picture is large. This will help you win self-confidence and help you master various technologies. The figure painting in the next few pages will provide artists with various ways to practice painting and show you how to apply what they have learned.

Paint with brushes and watercolors:

In order to focus on the overall modeling of the model, you should do the following exercises: draw a silhouette of the model's body with light watercolors. At this time, the heavy color is laid, and the outline is drawn with dark lines before the paint is dry. If you don't think it's right, you don't have to follow the outline of watercolor, and of course you don't have to hook up with the outline all over. This technique allows you to grasp the essence and express it.