Sketches Fashion sketches are the ideal means of depicting an item of clothing or an entire collection. It could be as simple as a single drawing or as complex as a storyboard presented with flats, swatches, patterns, and focus areas.

Fashion sketches can be black and white or colored with texture, depending on the purpose of the project. In most cases, fashion sketches are meant to be expressive, dynamic, and drawn in relation to the type of clothing chose. Relaxed poses are great for showing a young and decisive fashion line. Static frontal poses and three-quarter poses are appropriate for portraying an elegant and sophisticated fashion line. Very dynamic poses are suitable for representing fashion that is casual and youthful.

Your fashion sketches should have a life of its own. That's when some knowledge in anatomy comes in handy. Keep it in mind that anatomical drawings done too faithfully can actually harm the image, making it cold and impersonal.

There is a difference between fashion design sketches and fashion illustration. Sketches that are too illustrative are of no use in fashion design, even if they are pleasing in the execution. A fashion design sketch sells an item with a considerable amount of detail such as pockets, seams, buttons, necklines, etc. Fashion Illustration sells an "idea," leaving the details obstructed. Fashion illustration is the process of exaggeration of the structure of the body in a fashion sketch, reducing it to a few essential features. Sketches Coming Soon!