Essential Fashion Illustration: Poses (Essential Fashion Illustrations:) [Paperback]

Maite Lafuente (Author)

Book Description

Series: Essential Fashion Illustrations: | Publication Date: April 1, 2007

Learn how to draw posed figures for fashion illustration

This comprehensive reference provides hands-on techniques for created posed figures for fashion illustration. The first section illustrates various examples of nude and semi-nude poses (male and female). Later chapters illustrate the same poses wearing sportswear, sleepwear, dresses, suits, trousers, and casual and evening wear. The poses in each chapter are organized to show a progression including seated model (crossed legs, straight legs, seated on chair, seated on the floor); standing model (frontal view, three-quarter view, side-view from the back with crossed legs and straight legs); and moving model (running, walking, dancing). Each chapter begins with an introduction which is followed by images with detailed explanatory captions. With a focus on shape and form, the content covers marker and pencil techniques for a complete range of illustrated poses.

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About the Author

Maite Lafuente is a professor at the European Institute of Fashion. She is also a renowned illustrator whose work is often published in international magazines such as Vogue and Marie Claire. She is also the editor of Essential Fashion Illustration, published by Rockport in 2005. Maite lives in Barcelona, Spain

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592533302
• ISBN-13: 978-1592533305
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Many Beautiful Illustrations, December 21, 2011

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This review is from: Essential Fashion Illustration: Poses (Essential Fashion Illustrations:) (Paperback)

This book has 100's of figures in different poses and different outfits. There are so many poses to choose from, you won't run out of choices. This looks like to be the work of three different artists each with his or her own unique style. The book is divided into different sections based on the pose: standing up, movements, and sitting down and each page has a croquis and next to it the draped figure. What I like most about the illustrations is their simplicity and ease of style, yet the garments have enough detail to make them interesting but nothing is contrived. There isn't much text for reading so if you want a book that's mainly a visual read, this is a good one.

5.0 out of 5 stars qulity book!!!, May 30, 2011

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india - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Fashion Illustration: Poses (Essential Fashion Illustrations:) (Paperback)

this book will help me get where i need to be in drawing, i am so happy to find a book like this in such a great condition thanks amazon!

1.0 out of 5 stars The Best Illustrations are on the Cover, January 13, 2010

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Dana Duggan (Cohasset, MA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Essential Fashion Illustration: Poses (Essential Fashion Illustrations:) (Paperback)

I was very disappointed with the quality of illustration in this book. Each page had 3 of the same figure; just detailed in different ways. I am certainly not a professional illustrator, but I have seen better illustration work from the freshman class at Mass. College of Art in Boston. Very loose drawings here and many ugly faces. I returned it as it was not what it appeared to be. The best illustrations in this book were on the Cover.