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Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion (Portfolio Skills: Fashion & Textiles)

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I have tried to demystify the 'art' of technical drawing in this book. It's really not difficult, if you follow my step by step technique. The back section of the book is incredibly useful, as it contains clear drawings of key generic styles - its a visual dictionary of clothes.
The drawings here are not 'fashionable' - they are stripped of all 'fashion' content, therefore serve as an indicator of generic style names.
Once you have mastered the skill of 'drawing' in half and are familiar with a basic fashion vocabulary - you may steam ahead and work in this flat format to design anything you want....
A combination of draping on the stand, pattern cutting and an ability to draw flats is vital to arm you with the key skills you will need to succeed in our competitive industry today.
Good luck!
Basia Szkutnicka

A great tool for students and professionals, this book is complete yet concise. Includes hand-drawing techniques as well as Illustrator instruction. Flats are shown next to finished garments to better understand how your sketch translates to 3d. You have all the basic garment shapes but also a visual dictionary of variations that I find can be inspiring for new designs. There is written instruction, but it is also very visual which is great for creative types like myself!

The CD-Rom is the icing on the cake: It includes body and garment templates that can be manipulated in Illustrator - a priceless, time-saving resource!

This is an easy book to use and understand. Good reference for anyone who is designing clothing.

I am currently working on my designs for my collection and this book is what I am currently constantly using ! It's details are massive and gives you exemples of every possible details that can be on a garment shown on a muslin and as a technical sketch I couldn't ask for more. I keep this book very close, defenitly a good buy and a must for those starting out

When i saw this at the book's publishing site i thought "oh this is good..."only by the cover and it came with a cd for flat samples designs(Very few in my opinion could be better) For the massive greatness in flats of this book i expected the same kind of quality in the CD but its just O-K. nothing else.But the book itself worth the buy.

This book is a useful tool, but the step by step section is extremely limited. There are not enough instructions, the images aren't clear, and there is only one hand-drawn example. If you have no prior technical drawing experience, you'll struggle to learn with just this book. And although the drawings at the back make for a useful "index of shapes", there are not enough of them, and many key shapes are left out. 9 Heads by Nancy Reigelman is a better bet for technical drawing, even though there is no step by step, there are far more examples of shapes.