Fashion Illustration for Designers (2nd Edition)

This book will help to everyone who wants to learn fashion designs. Illustrations are awesome indeed, great content. At the same time, the quality of book itself is extremely poor for such price. The paper is very thin, the quality of printing is bad, the binding inside is just horrible and will break soon enough. I do not recommend to buy paper version of this book. The price is too huge comparing to poor quality, doesn't worth such money. I do not understand how it can be so expensive with such bad paper, also illustrations are mainly white and black, not color. Looks like it was just printed on home printer and bound cheap way, I hope e-book will be released, it will be much more useful, because, as I said, content is really awesome, the author did a great job, though bad book quality just kills all good impressions. I am very disappointed.

I personally like the book. My professor does not. I don't think we've even opened it and we are at the midterm. When I looked through it I thought it was a nice reference but again since we haven't used it in Illustration 1... I'll only keep it around until next semester when I take Illustration 2.Good book but my teacher doesn't think so? I guess that's how it sounded.

I haven't had the chance to sit down and really study or practice the methods in this book, but as an experienced, busy costume designer who rather hates the tedious rendering process with paints, the idea of nearly mess-free, mostly marker based rendering is quite exciting! I ordered a large set of markers which are on the way and I can't wait to get started!From what I've seen just looking through this book and DVD, I consider it a must have for fashion and costume designers alike. But it should be noted for costume designers new to the field that proportions of the human body are typically done more accurately for renderings in costume design as compared to fashion renderings which elongate and "stylize" the human body. The materials are perfect for learning to render different types of materials, skin tone, hair, etc., but if you are a costume designer reading this, I strongly advise you to learn how to draw the human body appropriately.

I was so very happy with this purchase. Not only did I get an exceptionally clean used title, it came with the DVDs which are clean and work!!! This is a wonderful company with whom I will do more business with in the future. Amazon chose well to allow these folks to be a part of their umbrella.

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Excellent for artists who want to learn fashion design art. It is written well, has wonderful illustrations, and comes with 2 CDs of videos of the artist creating her illustrations.

This was an excellent purchase, I got a heavy ring binder with a CD. I was able to enlarge some of the pictures to show my students details from 9 head figures. Good information for those interested in learning about fashion design. Excellent book

The best source I know for learning how to illustrate. Other books that use such a title do not focus on drawing. This book even deals with copic marker

Lovely book. There are sections on male and child illustrations however I am only interested in the women’s sections. I draw fashion illustrations as a hobby and this book is great for a beginner like me

If you dont know how to draw or find yourself at a crossroads with your talent then this is the book for you. There are step by step instructions and the illustrations are great!It provides great examples on drawing draped garments etc on the body dividing each type of garment by chapter. The approach is realistic, and Kathryn Hagens superb style and talent is so evidently displayed in the TWO DVD's is worth the price alone!You wont be disappointed!

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I ordered the 1st edition after reading to many negative comments about the 2nd one. The first one has more pages (though I didn't compare the content of both editions).Though the content is slightly disorganised, the information present in every page is very helpful. It's divided in 9 chapters and each chapter is subdivided in units (which have all very clear objectives like in school textbooks).Even before starting to draw, the author tells us about mediums. It covers not only the types of mediums but also their advantages and disadvantages. It really is a shame that 85% of the book is in black and white though.... Another good book for some more exemples of medium use is (in French) "Étapes de Mode : T03 Expressions Graphiques" by Isabelle D'Argoeuves. For a more inspirational use of different mediums in fashion drawing, there is also the beautiful book " Fashion Illustration : Inspiration and Technique " by Anna Kiper. Though I'd use the book mostly for inspiration as it doesn't show basic techniques; her drawing is already very stylized to begin with.What I like the most about the book surely is the "Color, Glorious Color" (it contains info about color rendering). But, as I consider that Rendering includes colour and texture, I was a bit surprised to find that the texture rendering for fabrics is mostly included in the Clothing Your Muse Unit of Chapter 3.Another good point of the book is the two CDs included. They feature the videos of some illustrations in the book (the making of + explanations by the author herself).Something I noticed in the book is the use of Photoshop in most of the handmade illustrations. The smudge tool and the fill tool to be exact. Sometimes it is subtle... but sometimes... it is just not.To conclude, I would recommend this book to everyone who is getting started in the Fashion Illustration, it is quite expensive, but is worth every penny. It does have 583 pages of illustrations, text, and exercises! There is also a very good book (in French) written by Takemura Zeshu called " Cours de Dessin de Mode tome 1 " It covers all the basic pretty well in a neutral way (non stylized) so that readers get to develop their own style after they get comfortable with the "neutral" way. I know there is also an English book made by him but I didn't take a look at it.