Fashion Illustration for Designers [Spiral-bound]

Kathryn Hagen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130983837 | ISBN-13: 978-0130983831 | Publication Date: March 22, 2004 | Edition: Pap/Dvdr

This step-by-step book is focused on teaching how to develop good, modern-looking drawing skills to allow designers to communicate their vision effectively. Fashion Illustration for Designers captures the various moods and mixes of global influences visually. It provides methods for organizing design and illustration tasks, and information about the best tools to not only get ideas on paper effectively, but also to dazzle an audience with the sophistication of the approach. Topics focus on how to draw all the various fashion figures, and to aid in understanding the subtleties of past, present, and future layered together and presented as style. Addresses not only drawing issues but also styling elements that can update a look. A great reference for Fashion Illustrators and Designers.

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From the Back Cover

The world of fashion is one of beautiful images and also those that surprise and assault our conventions. The runways have been invaded by youth and the street, radical subcultures, and Big Top aesthetics. The ability to capture the various moods and mixes of global influences visually is no small task. Innovation is no longer confined to just women's fashion, and the runways and fashion magazines are a mixed bag in terms of gender and age. Fashion Illustration for Designers is a textbook created not only to teach designers how to draw all the various fashion figures, step-by-step, but also to aid in understanding the subtleties of past, present, and future layered together and presented as style. It provides methods for organizing design and illustration tasks, and information about the best tools to not only get ideas on paper effectively, but also to dazzle an audience with the sophistication of the approach. Fabric and embellishment renderings are shown both in black and white and in color, and numerous flat templates provide support for technical drawings. Computer skills, essential in today's working world, are addressed and add to the multimedia approach. The accompanying DVDs allow the viewer to see actual drawing and rendering demonstrations showing easy-to-learn techniques that can be applied to any project. Good, modern-looking drawing skills allow designers to communicate their vision effectively and to open doors to wonderful and exciting opportunities. This comprehensive book is the key to your success!

About the Author

Kathryn Hagen is an artist and a full professor of illustration, drawing, and cultural studies at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, where she has taught for the last twenty years. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in Fashion Design, she also has a BFA and MFA in Fine Arts in painting and sculpture from Otis. She continues to teach, and is presently working on two other book projects for Prentice Hall. Her first illustration textbook is used in many schools both in the USA and overseas.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 608 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; Pap/Dvdr edition (March 22, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130983837
• ISBN-13: 978-0130983831
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #478,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kathryn Hagen was born in Denver Colorado, and grew up there and in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. She left for the big city [New York] when she was seventeen and graduated from Parsons School of Design with a Fashion Certificate. She also studied painting at the Art Student's League, and eventually earned both her BFA and MBA in Alternative Mediums at Otis College of Art and Design, where she has taught fashion drawing for the last 26 years. She has been lucky enough to train and work with many of her talented former students as instructors in the program. She also works as an illustrator and does some costume design for film.

Her first book with Prentice Hall, "Fashion Illustration for Designers", is sold all over the world and has been translated into Korean and Chinese. Because fashion is more than just clothes, Kathryn also collaborated on a collection of essays with Parme Giuntini, called "Garb, A Fashion and Culture Reader". She is currently working on a book about fashion portfolios, and has plans for several more drawing textbook projects in the near future.

Note: Check out her elaborate rendering demos on You-Tube.

Customer Reviews

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE IT!!!, March 17, 2006

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Brandi N. Brooks "BrandyeGyrl" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fashion Illustration for Designers (Spiral-bound)

My teacher recommmended that I get this book and I absoulutely love it. Karen Hagen is a great illustrator and gives a variety of ideas of different mediums to use and how to coordinate them all together. This book is also great for those who don't quite know how to draw. There are step by step instructions and the illustrations are great!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the gold standard, December 7, 2007

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Elana Carello-rabiner "elana" (ri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fashion Illustration for Designers (Spiral-bound)

i teach from this book and it is instrumental in creating enormous breakthroughs in students' sketching abilities. you will never tire of this book. loads of information. a must.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to follow and a great reference, March 26, 2008

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"Fashionista" (Houston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fashion Illustration for Designers (Spiral-bound)

I found this book the best for examples on learning to draw draped garments on the body. Although not explicitly meant for this purpose, this book divides each type of garment by chapter and gives examples for drawing them, appropriately. I find her approach realistic, and her style excellent. She definitely helped me!