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Due to popular demand....

Fashion Drawing and Illustration stage 2!

We often get the most amazing feedback from our 1 Day Drawing classes with tutor Robert Bowen, it makes us beam with pride to hear of students loving the classes and asking to come back and do a 2nd stage, to develop their style and learn more specific skills.

And so, we have developed a stage 2 to our Drawing and Illustration classes, check out the dates below and let us know if you require any other information.

 

Fashion Drawing and Illustration  Stage One

1 Day Workshop

This workshop is intended to provide a taste of  the various types of drawing  a designer would undertake from initial sketch, through working drawings to finished presentation illustrations and will enable students to gain confidence in fashion drawing and design. You will learn how use a variety of different media to draw the fashion figure and develop a set of poses. It will show you how to draw the body and face in proportion, to draw and render garment details and textile simulation and you will create a fashion illustration for a design of your choice.

10.30am to 3.30pm   5 hours including half hour lunch break

Sun  23^rd Sept

Sun  28^th Oct

Sun  2^nd Dec

Price £80   Some materials provided

Fashion Drawing and Illustration  Stage Two

1 Day Workshop

This workshop will give you a chance to further develop skills learnt in Stage 1. Develop your style, learn specific skills and practice under the tutors helpful eye. You can also bring your own projects to work on with the help of the tutor.

10.30am to 3.30pm   5 hours including half hour lunch break

WEEKEND

Sunday 9^th Sept

Sunday 30^th Sept

Sunday 4^th Nov

Price £80   Some materials provided

Lovely Illustrations by Fashion Antidote graduate Jessica Mills-Davies

 These lovely illustrations are the work of Jessica Mills-Davies, an illustrator, artist and journalist from East London. Jessica is a recent graduate of our Fashion Drawing course, and has just launched her online portfolio to start her career. We love hearing our students doing well, and wish her luck for the future! See more of her work on her portfolio here.

Are you a graduate of one of our courses? We'd love to hear what you're up to, where you're working or what projects you're working on, and might even feature you on our blog and site. Email info@fashionantidote and let us know what you're doing.

Great reviews of our Fashion Design Course (design a collection for a target customer)

A great review of our Fashion Design Course from past student, Heidi Anne Grant  

"Attended the last 'design a collection for a target customer', really impressed, lots of help to bring out the best in your creativity.
If you want to learn anything about Fashion this is the place to come!"

Fashion Design: Design a Collection for a Target Customer

The course will give you a taste of the fashion design process. Learn to design for a target customer, with the course covering sources of inspiration, trend and fabric research, mood boards, targeting customers, sketching and drawing, designing, range planning and design solutions.

Course Breakdown:

Intro to Fashion Industry

Levels of the market. The fashion calendar. The seasons. Fashion prediction and trend information, colour and fabric trends and predictions.
Fabric and trimming suppliers. Sampling and Manufacturing methods.

Intro to the Fashion Design Process

Design Research, sources of inspiration, themes and stories. Visual research - books, magazines, internet, and galleries etc. Sketching and drawing, note taking and collating. Mood boards and Theme boards. Create a customer profile. Identify the level of the market and stockists.

Sketching, Design Drawing, Specification Drawing

Observational Drawing, Analytical Drawing. Reference sketches. Figure drawing Specification or technical drawing. Getting your ideas on paper. Even if you are not good at drawing the techniques taught will enable you to achieve professional result

Design development / Range Planning

Work with all research, drawings and design roughs to develop a range of fashion garments aimed at a target market, Choose a colour palette and make fabric suggestions. Consider branding and visual identity.

Line up and Specification Drawing

Create a range plan and design line up with specification drawings for a fashion collection along with a colour palette and fabric research.
Create Specification Drawings for all garments showing front and back views.

Finalisation and Presentation

Finish all work and present to the group.

For more information see the website here, call on 02073753235 or email info@fashionantidote.com

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