Fashion Illustration
📋 What it is
Designers sketch their ideas as fashion illustrations — stylised drawings that show a garment’s shape, drape and details before it’s made.
🗣️ Coach says
Before a single stitch, designers draw. A fashion illustration is a quick, stylised sketch that captures how a garment will look, flow and fit — so ideas can be explored and shared fast. Draw first, sew later.
🧠 Memory hook
Sketch the idea first — shape, drape, details — before you make it.
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Tyrannosaurus Tex!
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Fashion illustrations are often drawn with very long, stylised bodies so the CLOTHES are the star, not the figure.
✅ Quick check: Why do fashion designers sketch illustrations before making a garment?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
To explore and share ideas quickly — capturing a garment’s shape, drape and details on paper before spending time and fabric making it.
Sketch-before-you-sew shows design as an iterative process.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Sketch (in your mind or on paper) a simple outfit idea — just its shape and one detail.