9 Heads: A Guide to Drawing Fashion (Paperback)

by Nancy Riegelman (Author)

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Product Description
This new detailed guide to learning the skills and techniques of drawing modern fashion and figure is also a rich reference source for a broad range of modern garments and accessories. Extensively illustrated, this introduction teaches by example, the power of drawing as a means of communication and expression and strives to show students how to perceive things in order to be able to draw them correctly. The first section is dedicated to drawing the human figure, while the second portion deals with how to draw a wide range of modern garments and accessories and the types of techniques used to render them convincingly and elegantly in different fabric designs and textures. This volume offers a complete presentation of proportions of the croquis, draping the figure, accessories, flats, and features an encyclopedia of details, how to draw textiles and real clothes, the art of illustration, and computers and fashion drawing. For designers, fashion professionals, teachers and students of fashion.

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This new detailed guide to learning the skills and techniques of drawing modern fashion and figure is also a rich reference source for a broad range of modern garments and accessories. Extensively illustrated, this introduction teaches by example, the power of drawing as a means of communication and expression and strives to show students how to perceive things in order to be able to draw them correctly. The first section is dedicated to drawing the human figure, while the second portion deals with how to draw a wide range of modern garments and accessories and the types of techniques used to render them convincingly and elegantly in different fabric designs and textures. This volume offers a complete presentation of proportions of the croquis, draping the figure, accessories, flats, and features an encyclopedia of details, how to draw textiles and real clothes, the art of illustration, and computers and fashion drawing. For designers, fashion professionals, teachers and students of fashion.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (April 3, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130941921
• ISBN-13: 978-0130941923
• Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #583,338 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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86 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A pretty book but confusing and not the best out there, May 31, 2005

By	Bryony A. Wheatley "bry wheatley" (brooklyn, new york) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is is well designed, has nice typography and looks handsome on a book shelf. Some of the illustrations presented are quite lovely. That said, I have some problems with it. The most important is that is lacks a consistent voice. There are many illustrations done by different illustrators who use disparate proportions, rendering and overall technique. While a case could be made that this illuminates the diversity of fashion drawing/ illustration as a teaching tool it's confusing. I attend both FIT and Parsons and I will tell you that it is not highly regarded at either school. I mention this purely because it's a very expensive book and many people looking to buy this book will be students with limited income who, armed with this information may be able to eat for another week, versus buying a book that isn't the best for them. I would highly recommend buying either Bina Abling's Fashion Sketchbook or Steven Stipleman's Illustrating Fashion if the goal is to improve sketching or learn sketching. If the goal is to view various illustrators' work, my recommendation would be the WWD retrospective (1960 - 1990) which showcases the illustration department's work and is truly inspiring.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Future Fashion Designer Must Have, November 5, 2002

By	D. M. "crazilittledi" (New York City) - See all my reviews

I am a high school student currently taking Fashion Designing Classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, which is where I want to go to college. My professor told me about 9 Heads and after working with it for about 5 months now, she noticed dramatic (good) changes in my drawing. I strongly suggest this book for anyone who is considering fashion designing because it has everything and beyond in it- figures, collars, necklines, skirts, pants, sleeves, faces- EVERYTHING!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great fashion illustration book, November 7, 2001

By	sabine "shparis" (paris, france) - See all my reviews

9 heads starts as a very professional teaching book with all the details needed for a design student who wants to learn more about fashion illustration. towards the end of the beautiful designed book itself comes the big plus: the examples of some of the finest and famous fashion designers worldwide, like the great christian lacroix or the new star bernhard willhelm. both represented with their fashion and their truly originally illustrations. the book is a great guide to get as good as them. not only is every way you can draw/see an eye, a hand, the body, the draping of the material, the light on clothes and many more important and helpful details presented - there are also fascinating interviews to be found.