Fashion Drawing

FREE Fashion Drawing Lessons

Hey there you guys!! If you want to become a fashion designer or fashion illustrator, and you have no idea about fashion drawing or you feel intimidated by fashion figures, I have something ultra special and super helpful to get you started 🙂

So keep reading 😉

FREE Bootcamp with Fashion Drawing Lessons

But, first I’d like to talk a little about who should definitely learn fashion drawing, so you can determine if these free lessons are for you or not.

So, let’s get started!

Who should learn Fashion Drawing?

Both aspiring fashion designers and fashion illustrators should learn fashion drawing because it’s the foundation of every fashion illustration.

Aspiring fashion designers should learn fashion drawing so they can communicate their designs and ideas.

As fashion designers, we can’t work alone and produce everything ourselves. We have to work with a team, we have to share our ideas with the people involved in the production, and we also have to share our designs with buyers, customers, sales agents, etcetera.

And aspiring fashion illustrators must learn fashion drawing because it’s where the whole work begins. Most of the times we fashion illustrators start with a drawing of what will turn into an illustration.

And, although some illustrators don’t start with a drawing per se, they can start painting right away, but they already know what to paint and how to paint because they learned everything about fashion drawing, body and face proportions, and how clothing and different kinds of fabric look on the body.

Great, now that we’re clear that you need to learn fashion drawing whether you want to become a fashion designer or illustrator, let’s see what these free lessons are all about.

A couple of years ago I launched an online course on How to Draw Fashion Figures and Faces. It’s been quite a success among fashion beginners during these years, and it’s because I designed it to take you step-by-step through the method I teach. So you don’t feel intimidated by the process and steps it takes to create a fashion figure and a proportionate face.

This course comes with video lessons and an in-depth printable workbook that includes the cheat-sheets I designed specifically for this course. And, I’m giving away free access to some of the video lessons plus some great + juicy email lessons to everyone who signs up through the button below:

This bootcamp will be delivered through email, and it can be considered a mini-course because I’ll share 5 video + 6 email lessons that will help you get started with fashion drawing. So, even if you can’t join the premium paid course, I want you to be able to get started and take advantage of the training I’ve created for you.

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When you sign up for the FREE fashion drawing lessons, you’ll receive one email per day during eight days, with one lesson each day.

The Video Series lessons are these:

What’s fashion drawing and who is it for?
What are fashion figures?
Types of fashion figures + their proportions
Tools for fashion drawing
Fashion drawing preliminary exercises

And the Email Lessons are all about demystifying fashion drawing + rookie mistakes + essential fashion croquis. The lessons are these:

Are you ready to learn fashion drawing? How can you know?
3 Mistakes you’re doing when drawing fashion figures + faces
How to draw proportionate + beautiful fashion figures. You need a method, and this is the one I love.
Take your work / portfolio / collection / Instagram feed from ultra boring to drop-dead gorgeous!
4 Essential Fashion Figures Poses for Fashion Designer + Illustrators
Take your next step NOW to be where you want to be and become who you want to become

Plus, you get a SPECIAL PRICE in my course Drawing Fashion Figures + Faces 😉

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That’s it for today! Now tell me in the comments:

What do you want to become a fashion designer or illustrator, and what’s your biggest struggle with fashion drawing?

Also, if you want to get the free lessons from my course Drawing Fashion Figures and Faces directly in your inbox, you can go to this link.

See you on the next post…. Bye!!

Tools for Fashion Drawing

Get Started with Fashion Drawing

FREE BOOTCAMP

So, you want to become a fashion designer and/or fashion illustrator, and you want to communicate your ideas clearly + beautifully, right?

Well, in this lesson, I’ll show you the essential tools to use for fashion drawing, so you can start learning + practicing + growing your skills right away.

If you want to go back to the main page of this free video series, go here. Or if you haven’t signed up to this FREE bootcam, button the link below:

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You can watch the video or read the lesson, whatever is best for you 😉

To start learning fashion drawing, you don’t need any special, super expensive, out of the world tools.

Actually, you only need a few things, and you can get started to learn and practice after one visit to the art supplies shop.

Sometimes it’s easy to fall into the trap of “well, when I get these tools, or these pencils, or these colors, or the dream studio, then I’ll start learning, or I’ll begin creating my designs or my illustrations”, but wouldn’t it be easier to just get started with what you already have? Or wouldn’t it be better if you started to learn, practice, and create from now so your skills and talents grow with time?

Of course, it would be easier and better, right?!

Okay, great, so let’s see the essential tools that you need to start learning and practicing your fashion drawing skills:

essential tools for fashion drawing

Pencil or mechanical pencil

My favorite pencil to work with is 2H because it’s not too hard nor too soft, and it’s not as messy as those pencils on the B spectrum.

Remember the H in a pencil stands for Hard, and the bigger the number, the harder the pencil and the cleaner the lines. And the B stands for soft black, and the bigger the number, the softer and darker the pencil.

I also love working with mechanical pencils because the lines are finer than the pencil’s and I don’t need to use a sharpener, so I can draw and draw non-stop.

If you want, you can try with both, a regular pencil and a mechanical pencil. Neither of them has to be expensive. My pencils usually cost less and one buck, and the mechanical pencil I’m using cost no more than two bucks. I tend to lose my pencils all the time, so I don’t invest quite a lot in them, but I also love how they work.

Eraser and sharpener

When you buy your erasers, make sure they’re soft and kind with your work. You don’t want your eraser to stain or damage your drawings, so make sure you pick the right eraser.

I love purchasing erasers in bulk because as with pencils l tend to lose them all the time 😛

For sharpeners, I prefer the metal ones. And this one with two holes is just perfect. One hole is to sharpen the pencils and the other one for the color pencils.

Paper. Loose sheets of paper or a notebook

Okay, you have your pencils, your eraser, and your sharpener ready, now you need a place where to put your ideas on.

For this, you can get a notebook, or you can even work with loose sheets of paper and then put them in a binder.

Especially at the beginning that you’ll need to practice a lot, I’d recommend purchasing a pack of bond paper in letter size and a binder. Then, start learning, draw, practice, make some mistakes, observe and improve, and tweak and repeat. Make sure you keep your best work in the binder. And when you feel more confident in your drawing skills, then get a notebook and put all your designs, ideas, and illustrations there.

You can optionally use ruler and templates for circles and ovals

These tools are amazing for beginners; they help you create clean + perfect lines + circles + ovals for your figures and faces. And I totally recommend them when you’re just starting out, although sometimes I still use them when I want a neat drawing.

The ruler will help you create a preliminary line skeleton for your fashion figures before you draw the actual body and put garments on it.

Then you can determine where the joints like knees, shoulders, elbows, and ankles will be with the circle’s templates.

And you can use the ovals templates to draw the head of your figures.

All the ruler, and the circles + ovals templates are here to help you with that shaky hand. But, I definitely recommend you to follow the drawing exercises from a previous lesson and video, so you keep getting better.

Workbook and cheat-sheets

If you’re totally new to fashion drawing and especially to drawing fashion figures and faces, then the workbook and cheat-sheets from my course Drawing Fashion Figures + Faces will be super helpful for you because I created them specifically for beginners to train their eyes + hand + brain to create beautiful and proportionate figures and faces.

These are a shortcut to help you improve your skills faster, and you only need to print the cheat-sheets and draw over them. Or use the cheat-sheet under a sheet of paper, and draw following the step-by-step from the course + workbook.

As you can see, you don’t have to wait until you have all the tools, nor the most expensive materials or the biggest studio. You can start learning + practicing from now with as little as paper and a pencil.

So, grab your materials and stay tuned because during the next lesson we’ll be doing some preliminary exercises 😀

Great, before you go, and if you haven’t signed up for my FREE ‘Get Started with Fashion Drawing’ Bootcamp yet…

I want to invite you to go + do it now! This is a jammed packed FREE resource for you if you’re new to fashion drawing and drawing fashion figures, sign up through the button below!

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Now tell me in the comments all your questions about drawing fashion figures and faces 🙂

With so much LOVE!!

Client work VS Personal projects as a Fashion Designer + Illustrator – Pros and Cons

What’s best, focusing solely on working with clients or focusing only on your personal projects?

In my latest video/post, I talked about the importance of doing what’s most exciting to you first, and I mentioned I’d focus on my personal projects as a fashion creative and on growing the community around FSBS and my own brand as Karen Avila the artist and illustrator. And in this video, I want to dive deep a little more into the pros and cons of doing client work VS your own personal projects.

Wanna know my thoughts on this?

Let’s dive in!

You can watch the video or read the post, whatever you prefer 😉

Client work

Okay let’s focus on client work first because it’s one of the main reasons we want to become fashion illustrators and designers, so we can work with clients, gain experience, explore with our skills and talents, gain exposure, and make money.

So, the Pros to work with clients are:

You do the work, and you get paid. Clearly, the biggest pro is that clients give you the money.
Every time you finish a project with a client, they can give you a testimonial, you can use the work you did with them in your portfolio, and that gives you credibility to keep landing clients. It’s like a snowball effect; one client brings lots more with them.
But also, working with clients give you experience on real-life projects, they give you the ability to solve problems, create for a necessity, or simply know how a process works in real life.

For example, when I was in college, I had to design and create the sample of a pair of shoes as a final project for one semester. So I designed it, loved it, and I found someone who could make the patterns and produce the sample of that pair of shoes because I didn’t have the tools to follow and do the process myself. My learning experience finished as soon as I gave my design and materials to the footwear maker.

But, during my first ever freelance project, I had to design and produce the samples of a collection of women’s footwear. Here I learned all about:

Material sourcing
What materials work best for shoes in the outside, inside, for the sole, insole, heels, etc.
How patterns are made, and how sometimes an idea must be rethought, so the design is feasible
The whole process of making a pair of shoes.

Of course, working with clients isn’t the only way to gain such experience and knowledge. You can learn and experience through your personal projects as well, but sometimes we get short by thinking that we don’t have the resources, tools, or people to make them happen, and we finish the project once the design stage is done.

Now let’s see the cons of working with clients

Sometimes your creativity is restrained. You must create according to your client’s requirements + guidelines + aesthetic. Sometimes, most of the times, clients have something specific in mind; a certain style, look, or product. And you must do your work according to that. Some illustrators and designers, like Frannerd mentioned in one of her videos, have a style for freelance work or client work, and another style for their personal projects (if they have time to work on personal stuff).
Some clients are a pain to work with. Yeah, sorry to break it to you, but working with clients, sometimes, isn’t a dream come true. I’ve worked with tons and tons of clients for over eight years, and as some of them were delightful to work with others left me drained + broke + needing a 2-month vacation or more.Over the years, I’ve become more selective with the kind of clients I work with, and I’ve also been lucky enough to find and be found by some amazing dream clients. But, at the beginning the difference between a dream + a nightmare client it’s pretty blurry or inexistent; we believe that everyone is a dream client because they’re willing to pay for something we love to do. So that’s another con.
And as a third disadvantage is that client work can absorb all your time not allowing you to focus on personal projects. This has been so true for me during my whole time in business, and for me, it happened because one client brought another or a couple more, and I didn’t want to say no or disappoint anyone. It’s the snowball effect I was telling you before.

Great, now let’s cover the pros and cons of personal projects

First the Pros:

You have the freedom to create whatever you want, however you want. If you’ve had an idea of a design or an illustration forever, but you haven’t been able to work on it, now you can. If you want to create a collection in your own style, now you can. If you want to follow a trend or not follow it. Or if you want to use certain art media, this is your chance.
Your personal projects also allow you to explore and experiment with your skills + techniques + your authentic style + your whole work to discover you as a fashion artist or fashion creative.When you’re creating your own personal projects the restrictions are set by you, so you can feel completely free to keep learning and experimenting in an intentional and purposeful way.And now that a set of requirements does not restrain you, you can get to know what are the tools and materials you love the most, what features can be part of your authentic style, and what matters the most to you as a fashion creative. While at the same time you can learn something new with every new project.
There’s no ceiling on how much money you can make with one project. Personal projects are not destined to leave you broke or give you no money.Actually, personal projects have the biggest potential to bring in the money because you’re making them with passion and love, and passion and love move people. Passion will move you to explore all the possibilities and do things you never imagined you could do. And people getting in touch with you will be moved and infected with your love and passion that they’ll be eager to be part of it.Maybe you start small and decide to create your first postcard collection featuring your illustrations and sell it through your Instagram. Maybe you just want to create as many illustrations as they come to your mind and sell them as products in RedBubble. Or maybe you want to go bigger, and you decide to create your first fashion collection and sell it through your website and social media.
There’s no ceiling on how much money you can make. The amount of money will only be determined by you, what you think is possible, and what you make happen.

Wow, I’m so pumped by these pros, it’s exciting to know all the possibilities you have when you embark on creating some of your personal projects, but now let’s see the cons.

Well, I really couldn’t think of any other con than this:

If you don’t turn your project into a product or don’t sell it in any way, you won’t make money from it.Personal projects take time and sometimes money, those are the main reasons most people don’t focus on personal projects. And as I mentioned in the last point, you can shift this by making your project sellable. But, if you’re not willing to put the extra work that that means, then you won’t be able to see any monetary return.It’s up to you if you want a personal project to bring you money or not, and it’s also up to you if you want to give the necessary effort + time + work to make it happen.
If you decide your idea and your personal project is worth taking the time and doing the work to make money, then it’s time to show up, share your project with the world, and shout it from the rooftops.

To finish…

For many many years I focused on client work, my main goal was that they were happy with my work, so they returned or referred me to other people. I liked what I was creating with clients, I liked my business model, and I enjoyed working with clients, but something was missing. I left myself aside.

Every time I wanted to create something personal, I told myself ‘once I finish with this client’s project.’ All the experimentation I wanted to do, all the things I wanted to try, all the things I wanted to create had to wait. And that made me feel drained + passionless about my work.

There was a point where I didn’t enjoy to do the things I was supposed to enjoy; the things that were the reason I started my own business became meaningless.

So, I’m not telling you that you shouldn’t work with clients anymore and that you should only do whatever you want and be happy. Well, yes, you should be happy and hopefully do whatever you want, but I’m here to tell you that you must find a balance between client work and your own projects, so you get the best of both worlds: the experience in real-life projects, the credibility and trust from new clients, the fulfillment + freedom of doing what you like, the ability to explore + discover yourself as the artist and creative you are, and the money.

But, if what you want is to focus purely on your own projects, then go ahead. Go for it because there’s nothing better and more meaningful than making your dreams + ideas happen, and see how you evolve + improve as an artist and as a person along the way.

That’s why I’m eager to explore and experiment with my own techniques + style. That’s why I want to keep growing and exploring like an artist and creative. And that’s why I want to help you do the same.

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How to Draw Fashion Figures

Are you feeling frustrated because you’re still struggling with drawing a pretty fashion figure?

On yesterday’s lesson, you saw that the first thing you have to learn as a fashion designer or fashion illustrator is how to draw fashion figures. It’s the very first thing in the schedule on any fashion college, on any fashion illustration course, and on any fashion illustration book. So, it’s important that you keep up with this subject, so the rest of the illustration’s elements (clothing, color, texture, background…) look at their best and work together to have a beautiful fashion illustration.

I also shared with you how hard it was for me to draw fashion figures, and how overwhelmed + frustrated + disappointed I felt about the fashion drawing methods out there. And now you know always there’s an easier way to do the things that are difficult to you, and I assured you that you can create pretty and proportionate fashion figures – and that you can create them easily 😉.

So, if you’re just starting with fashion drawing or drawing fashion figures is kinda hard for you – whether it is because the method you’re trying is too messy or too complicated or too vague -, during today’s and tomorrow’s lessons I’ll show you how to draw fashion figures.

On my course Fashion Drawing | Figures + Poses, I talk you about:

What are fashion figures
When and how to use them
Why it’s important to create your own fashion figures
Pros and cons about creating your figures and using templates
The most popular fashion figures
All about proportions, and how to draw fashion figures step-by-step (in different poses and views!).

And, now I’ll borrow part of my course, and I’ll share some of the topics above with you, right here right now 😃

Are you ready?

Great, let’s begin!

What are fashion figures?

Well, short and sweet, a fashion figure is the body you draw for your fashion illustrations. It is the body in which you draw your fashion designs or the clothing that you want to feature in your fashion illustrations.

Usually, the fashion figure has not the real human proportions. Instead, it is elongated, so it looks more stylish. To make sure the body doesn’t look weird, you should extend the figure’s body from the waist so that only what is below the waist is affected.

But, as a fashion designer and fashion illustrator, you can create a fashion figure with the proportions, size, and style of your choice. Actually, when you’re more advanced at fashion drawing, it is desired that you create your fashion figure, so it is part of your illustration style.

As a fashion designer, the fashion figures are used in different stages of the design process and beyond, like:

Sketching Phase. This is where you start creating different ideas for a collection and unfolding the designs that will be part of it. Fashion figures in this stage are crucial because they can give you a clear idea and vision of how your designs will look over the body, and how they’ll interact with the rest of the collection. The fashion figures used in this phase are frequently basic, looking to the front or the back. And when there’s any particular detail on the side, then you can use a side view of the fashion figure.
Final Illustrations for the Collection. When you select your final designs for the collection, you may want to create some final illustrations for each outfit to represent not only the garments but also the mood and the vibe of the collection. These illustrations can be used to create the collection presentation, to show them to other persons on the team, and also to present them to potential buyers. The fashion figures in this phase could be more playful and less basic (I recommend that the fashion figures go with the vibe of your collection), so manipulate the figure, create different poses, and make your fashion figures match your collection.
Tech-Packs and Specification Sheets. On tech-packs and specification sheets you’ll find the flat version of the garments. But, if you want to clarify certain details (or really make sure the people taking care of production understand your designs), you can add basic fashion figures featuring the garments of your collection.
Portfolio. In your portfolio, you must include your best work, the collections you’ve created, and of course, you should include the outfits of those collections featuring them on the human body (fashion figures).

As a fashion illustrator, the fashion figures are used in all the phases of the process, unless you’re illustrating only a separate piece of garment, accessories, or footwear that isn’t being used by the person. And of course, fashion figures are one of the most important elements in your portfolio.

So you see why fashion figures are important whether you want to be a fashion designer or fashion illustrator.

It’s essential that you know how to draw fashion figures because they’re key in all the phases of the design and illustration processes.

Creating your own fashion figures VS Using templates

What if you just don’t really like to draw fashion figures and want to opt for templates?

Well, that’s a great option, especially for beginners and fashion designers who want to focus on the design of the garments and skip the hassle of creating the bodies. And that’s perfectly fine.

But, if you are a fashion illustrator you want your illustrations (and that includes the fashion figures) to be completely yours. And, the fashion figures you create + use for your fashion illustrations must be aligned to your style as a fashion illustrator.

So let’s see the pros and cons of both.

Creating your own fashion figures.

Pros

As a designer, you can come up with poses and bodies that you can’t find on the Internet or books. And the fashion figures you create will have your personal touch making your whole work and portfolio more interesting, cohesive, and authentic.

As a fashion illustrator, the pros are super obvious because the body is part of the essence of your work. The body language, the style you use to draw the figures, and every single element in them is part of your style, and they can determine if your style and your work are unique and genuine. – And I know you want them to be as authentic and special as they can be, so creating your own fashion figures will help you to accomplish that 😉.

Cons

They can be more time consuming. Whether you’re a fashion designer or illustrator sometimes you just need to get things done as quickly as possible, and creating your own fashion figures sometimes is not a choice – or is it? 😛

SUPER PRO TIP: To magically turn this con into a pro, you can create a fashion figures bank (yes!). You do this by creating all the fashion figures in all the poses that you like, then digitizing each of them, and printing the fashion figures that you need when you need them. In Fashion Drawing | Figures + Poses there will be a new resource to help you create your own fashion figures bank! So, if you’re already a student stay tuned, and if you’re not, join us before enrollment closes.

Okay continuing with the cons, if you like to have all your work in one place like in one sketchbook for your sketches, you may need to work differently. For example, as I print and use the fashion figures either for my fashion designs or illustrations, I put them in a binder – and I put all the related work together. So, if you’re not a fan of working with loose sheets of paper, drawing your own fashion figures could be a con.

Using Templates

Pros

Using templates to create your fashion designs and fashion illustrations is super quick, you save time, and your fashion figures look consistent – although, you can also create templates from your own fashion figures and build your fashion figures bank (as I told you on the last point).

And if you have a sketchbook that has fashion figure templates in its pages (like those from Fashionary), then you’d have all your work in one place. This option is my go-to when I’m in a hurry to sketch a fashion collection – for my fashion illustrations I ALWAYS use my own fashion figures.

Cons

You’d use the same templates over and over again – which could make your work look consistent, but depending on the amount of templates that you use, your work could turn boring and expected (this is especially true for fashion illustrators).

As I mentioned before, as a fashion illustrator you want your fashion figures (and all other elements of your fashion illustrations) to be unique and authentic to you. And if you use templates from someone else, the genuine factor will be diminished (or completely taken out).

So what should you do? Create your own fashion figures or use templates?

This decision is up to you, and it depends on how comfortable you feel about drawing and if you are (or want to be) a fashion designer or a fashion illustrator or both. And another factor to consider is what’s more comfortable to you: working with your own figures on loose sheets, or with templates whether they are on a pre-made sketchbook or in loose sheets as well.

My recommendation?

Give fashion drawing a try!

Learn how to draw fashion figures. Pick a method that is easy to follow, and that allows you to learn in an easy way if you’re not super keen at fashion drawing. I talked about this in the last lesson, and one method you could try is the one I guide you through in my course Fashion Drawing | Figures + Poses – just saying 😊.

Then, tweak and adjust your fashion figures to look like as you want (think proportions + size + style).

And create your fashion figures bank. This way you’ll have fashion figures for every occasion, and they’ll be as unique and authentic as you are.

Nevertheless, the decision is always yours. Remember my advice and recommendations are always based on my experience and on what I’ve seen that has worked best for my students and me 😉

Fashion Figures and Proportions

I get into a lot more detail in my fashion drawing course on the proportions of the body and face, but for now, let’s cover the basics of the basics here.

Alright, the fashion figure you use can have any proportions and size that you want. Actually, if you fancy, your fashion figures don’t have to be accurately proportionate and look as similar to the human body as possible – I’ve met a couple of designers and illustrators who exaggerate the size of the head, or slim the whole body, or play with the whole proportions to make the fashion figures their own.

But, usually, the fashion figures are similar to the human body because most people like to present their designs and illustrations in figures that look like real persons. For me, that’s true, I want people to feel related and attracted to my designs and illustrations (as if they said ‘hey, that could be me’).

So, let’s see the 3 most popular fashion figures:

The eight heads figure.
The nine heads figure.
And the ten heads figure.

The eight, nine, ten heads? What’s that?!

Well, the height of a realistic human body from the crown to the toes is around eight times the height of the head.

For fashion purposes, the body is stretched and elongated to nine head and sometimes ten head sizes (always below the waist only). This elongation is given to make the fashion figure look more stylish and chic.

That’s why you’ll see here, and in books or other people’s videos talking about eight head, or nine head, or ten head figures.

Once that’s clarified, let’s continue 😉

1 | The eight heads figure.

As I mentioned, the eight heads figure is the one with closer proportions to the real human body. In the images below you can see an example of a fashion figure with an eight heads size, and also the equivalence between the eight heads figure and the human body.

2 | The nine heads figure.

This figure is taller than the real human body by one head. And the elongation is created below the waist. This is my personal pick; I like to have a stretched figure, but not too elongated. And, in the image, you can see the proportions of the nine heads figure and the parts of the body.

As you can see, the torso has the same proportions as the 8-heads figure, but the legs are longer to get a more stylish look.

3 | The ten heads figure.

This figure is even taller than the real human body, and the size of the torso and arms also change.

If you want longer fashion figures, this is your size (10-heads height). And if you want even longer figures, you can add more head sizes below the waist. In the image below you can see the proportions of the ten-heads figure and the parts of the body.

And in this image, you can see the difference between all of the three fashion figures.

Do you have a favorite fashion figure now? Which one is your fave?

It doesn’t matter what’s the one you prefer or if you change your mind later, you can follow the exact same process to create your fashion figures in any size.

In Fashion Drawing | Figures + Poses, I show you how to create your fashion figures with 9-heads height, and I give you all the cheat-sheets ready to use to create shorter (8-heads) and taller figures (10-heads) too. So, you can pick the size that you prefer (8, 9, or 10 heads), and follow the process showed in the lessons (on the workbook + videos).

As I told you, with my method, you would follow the same steps, you would only need to change the cheat-sheet, and once you feel confident to draw freehand, your memory + visual + hand muscles will be ready to replicate those proportions without the cheat-sheets – yay! 😃

How to draw fashion figures

So what will you use, templates or your own fashion figures?

And what size do you prefer, 8-heads, 9-heads, or 10-heads?

Now it’s time to see how to draw fashion figures. We’ll start with a basic figure, because it’s the most used, and it’s the easiest to create whether you’re a fashion designer or fashion illustrator. And we’ll go for an intermediate size for the figure, so we’ll create a nine heads figure.

Are you ready?

Materials

First things first, the materials you’ll need are:

Pencil. I prefer 2H or HB.
Paper. Bond paper is fine.
Eraser + sharpener.
Optionally ovals + circles templates, and a ruler.
This cheatsheet. Download it + print it 😉

Once you have your materials ready, click play!

Finally, once you finish the fashion figure, you can redraw it on a clean piece of paper with the help of a light box, or a window close to you. And your figure will be ready to use!

The process is the same whether you want to create your fashion figures in the eight heads or ten heads sizes. So, it’s your turn to draw all the figures you need and want 😊

You can create your own cheat-sheets for the figures you want to draw on the size of your choice. And for those of you who don’t want to create a cheat-sheet every time you want to draw a fashion figure, I got you covered!

My course and workbook Fashion Drawing | Figures + Poses is all about making it easier for you to learn and draw fashion figures and faces, and it includes the cheat-sheets for each of the figure sizes (eight, nine, and ten heads), and the lines come in black (as the one I shared with you here) and light gray, so you only have to print them out and use them. Oh, and the course also comes with a step-by-step workbook and videos, and a private community to hang out and solve your doubts.

Your Homework

Now it’s time to put all this info to practice, so here’s your assignment for today:

Grab your materials: paper, a pencil, eraser, and a ruler. And optionally circles and ovals templates.
Follow the method I described here.
Take a pic of the fashion figure you draw.
And post it on Instagram with the hashtag #FashionFigureDrawing and tag me @imkarenavila

Can’t wait to see your creations! 😊

Oh, man! I LOVED creating these lessons, they’ve been on the back burner for a long time, so I’m super happy it finally made its way to you 😃

Well, my hope for these lessons is that it lets you know that you can create pretty and proportionate fashion figures with ease. I hope it clarifies the process of how to draw fashion figures. And I hope it encourages you to start creating your figures with this method – which gets easier when you have the cheat-sheets ready to use, and the more you use it.

Also, I hope these lessons lets you know that you can draw your fashion figures however you want and infuse your style into them (of course, once you master one fashion drawing method 😉)

Sending you a BIG (bear) HUG,

P.S: Are you excited about these fashion drawing lessons?

I would absolutely love to help you even more and have you as one of my lovely students. Hop over to my course Fashion Drawing | Figures + Poses get the step-by-step guidance you need through the workbook and videos to take your skills to another level, and show me your progress + share your doubts + improve faster.

Through the new community, I’ll send individual love + feedback back your way answering your questions + clarifying your doubts + encouraging you along the way!

Here’s the link again, can’t wait to welcome you!

(LOTS of LOVE! And sending you some digi-hugs!)