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Essential Fashion Illustration [Paperback]

Maite Lafuente (Author)
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February 1, 2006
This book's aim is to submerge the reader in the world of illustration. The first section ranges from how to start to draw a human figure to the techniques to stylize and synthesize it. This section provides a large amount of figures in different poses, as well as hands and feet-often the most difficult parts - in diverse postures and angles. However, in the field of fashion it is also essential to know how to draw fabric, and even more important to know how to draw the folds of clothing. The items of clothing are presented as much in technical drawing as in figures in movement, and forming light and shadow is also explained, as this gives quality to the illustration.

The second part of the book revolves around color and the different techniques with which one can work: watercolor, wax, pastel, and so on. All the drawings that appear constitute a brief exhibition of the changes that the fashion world has experienced and with this in mind a path has been laid which starts in 1900, illustrated in watercolors, and finishes in 2000, illustrated in pencil. The goal of this volume is to uncover the reader's desire to paint and to provide him with some of the secrets that will encourage him to do so. After all, experience is the most effective way to learn, whatever the subject.


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About the Author

Maite LaFuente is an illustrator and professor at the European School of Fashion Design in Barcelona, Spain. She is also the director of her own illustration studio, specialized in fashion drawings and design. As an illustrator, her works have been published in important fashion magazines such as Elle and Marie Claire. She currently lives and works in Barcelona where she is currently preparing a new book on fashion illustration.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Rockport Publishers (February 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592532535
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592532537
  • Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #739,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars not a fashion illustrator, July 10, 2007
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I'm not in the slightest interested in being part of the fashion industry, but I love this book. It's the best one I've found on the market for learning to draw people. A lot of drawing books are for pencil sketchers and I was looking for ink and finished line drawing work. This book is excellent for that.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very concise, step by step book!, February 16, 2008
This review is from: Essential Fashion Illustration (Paperback)
Highly recommended! This book offers step by step instructions on drawing the figure and its proportions. If you want to learn how to draw, better yet, illustrate fashion, this is the book for you. Perfect for beginners!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars very good book, May 24, 2007
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Great new poses for people that already have knowledge of fashion drawing, needs a little detail when it talks about creating a fashion pose different to the frontal..
Overall great book for reinforcing what you already know..
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