Fashion Drawing and Illustration for 11 to 15 Year Olds Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course offers a fun and creative opportunity to explore the world of fashion illustration and begin developing your own unique style.
Through a mix of lectures, studying inspirational illustrators and experimenting with different media and drawing methods, you'll learn how to explore fashion drawing in a broader, more personal way.
You'll experiment with a variety of media and techniques, challenging traditional approaches and discovering new ways of working. By presenting your work to the group, you'll also build confidence in your individuality and grow as an artist.
Who this course is for
- Students aged 11 to 15 with a passion for drawing, including beginners
- Students with an interest in fashion or textiles
Key information
Topics covered
- Illustration techniques and mark making
- Figure drawing
- Colour confidence and how to use colour to create impact and authenticity in your work
- Develop your own creative style and confidence
- Draw textiles and textures in innovative ways
- Resourcefulness – learn how to combine different creative elements through collage
- Presentation amongst your peers
- How to curate your own work for an exhibition
- Share creative ides within a team
- Problem solving and learning how to break through creative block
- Draw for mindfulness and how relaxing and different styles of music can affect your drawings
Learning outcomes
- Develop your own style for portfolio
- Gain insights into the process of building a creative career under the guidance of an industry expert
- Boost your confidence in your own creative style
- Develop a new set of creative tools to approach creative briefs from a new perspective and break through creative blocks
- Put together an extensive list of inspirational illustrators and sources to look at for future inspiration
- Connect with likeminded creative students
- Get an uplifting impression or idea of how creative collaboration can strengthen and boost their own creative practice for the future
- Experience how industry experts approach creative briefs with authenticity in industry
- Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
- Develop an open-minded approach to art and design
- Experience art school teaching
For practical information about our kids and teens courses, take a look at our kids and teens information hub. This includes details of our policies on safeguarding, food allergies, learning requirements and online study.
Materials
If possible, please bring a camera or camera phone to record the process of making the work, and the outcomes.
Everything needed to complete the course is provided, but please feel free to bring any current sketchbooks or materials you enjoy using.
Tutor
Daniela Bomba
Daniela is a womenswear designer, print designer and creative consultant. She has worked both in London and abroad for luxury fashion houses and brands, and tutored at Central Saint Martins. Daniela began her studies at Ravensbourne College of Art Design and Communication and completed her Masters in Fashion Womenswear at Central Saint Martins. She has worked for a number of fashion labels including Jonathan Saunders and Luella as a designer and as consultant to brands including Adam Andrascik and Selfridges. Daniela is a lead tutor womenswear on the Fashion Folio course at Central Saint Martins.
Eva Neuburger
Eva Neuburger is a fashion, print and textile designer, illustrator and brand consultant. She has worked with labels including Mimi Wade, Rene Scheibenbauer, Manon Malan and Awareness and Consciousness in London and Vienna. Eva has a BA in Fashion Print from Central Saint Martins. She is currently working on a sustainable fashion label as well as teaching as a lead tutor on the Fashion Folio course at Central St Martins.Nicole Zisman
Nicole Zisman is a London-based artist and designer addressing fractured identity and assimilation within physical and digital culture. Through her cross-disciplinary approach, her unconventional use of craft techniques and uncompromising visual narratives she challenges the notion of a fixed truth that 'seeing is knowing'. She completed her BA in Fashion Print from Central Saint Martins in 2019. Since then, her work has featured in the likes of Dazed, LOVE Magazine, SHOWstudio, The Face, Vogue Italia, Teen Vogue and Tatler. In October 2019, she presented her first solo exhibition 'So Let It Be Your Will' hosted by Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Waltham Forest, London Borough of Culture 2019. In February 2020, she presented at London Fashion Week for the first time, as part of the Positive Fashion Exhibition at 180 The Strand. Recent successes include her first award of funding from Arts Council England for her exhibition 'Tranquila, Mami' which opened at Ein Sof Gallery, London in April 2022. In addition to her own eponymous label Zisman lectures fashion design at Central Saint Martins and collaborates with the Feminist Internet and Centre for Sustainable Fashion.Joshua Beaty
Joshua Beaty is an artist, designer and educator working in London. A graduate of the MA Fashion Programme at Central Saint Martins, he has worked with Fantastic Toiles, Sarabande Foundation, Joyce Hong Kong, Dover Street Market, Charles Jeffrey, Julie Verhoeven, Phoebe English and Alexander McQueen, amongst others. As an artist he has exhibited internationally. He teaches on the BA Fashion courses.
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