Fashion Illustration Techniques: A Beginner’s Guide for Fashion Designers and Illustrators [With Over 1400 Illustrations]

The complete beginner’s guide to fashion illustration from one of Japan’s leading designers!

This fascinating guide for budding fashion designers and illustrators shows you how to draw human figures accurately with a full range of fabrics, garments and accessories. It explains clearly all the techniques used by professional designers and illustrators with hundreds of examples to study and learn from!

Author Hiroko Fukuchi, one of Japan’s leading fashion illustration teachers, shares insider tips and techniques to help you master the art of fashion drawing--from sketching realistic human figures to illustrating stylish outfits and textured fabrics

The detailed chapters in this book present all the essential information you need to know:

• Drawing the Human Figure: Master the proportions of male and female figures, including heads, hands, arms, legs, and torsos


• Drawing Fabrics on the Body: Learn to render various fabrics and textiles with folds, gathers, wrinkles and shadows and how to draw them draped over the body using different types of pens and media


• Illustrating and Designing Clothes: Learn to draw a wide range of individual garments as well as stunning ensembles and accessories, including skirts, dresses, shirts, pants, jackets, shoes, bags, bras, panties and much more!


• Getting Creative with Colors and Fabrics: Explore patterns, surface textures, and color palettes to elevate your illustrations with depth and personality

This comprehensive guide delivers all the foundational skills taught in top Tokyo fashion schools--perfect for self-study or supplementing a formal design course!

Hiroko Fukuchi is a lecturer in fashion illustration and design at Sugino Fashion College in Tokyo. She also teaches at Dressmaker Gakuin and Wayo Women’s University and creates illustrations for books and apparel designers. She has contributed to many fashion books including Modalina’s Illustrated Book of Fashion, Modalina’s Illustrated Book of Men’s Fashion and How to Draw a Suit. This is her first book in English.