Fashion Drawing for Beginners Online Short Course

Course description

Fashion drawing is essential to facilitate the expression of ideas in the work of fashion designers. This course is for practising designers or would-be illustrators who want to improve their drawings. You will learn the fundamental fashion drawing skills. Intensive drawing from a fashion model will comprise the main focus of the classes. Your learning will be supported by individual advice and practical demonstrations.

All our Online Short Courses include:

Live online lessons with the same tutors
The same course content and learning outcomes
Lesson recordings, for review
Access to VLE with course content
Forums for support
2 weeks online access
Certificate upon completion

Please note that all courses are taught in UK time.

Online courses are closed to all new bookings 48 hours prior to the course starting.

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Details

Topics covered

Figure drawing exercises will place emphasis on observation, co-ordination, structure and movement

As well as figure drawing, we will look at media skills, fabric interpretation and developing a personal style

Materials

Online short course materials

To take part in the Online sessions you will need:

An up-to-date web browser (we recommend Chrome)
Microphone and headphones (a headset with a microphone function is recommended. The built-in microphone in your device would also be fine)
Webcam
Strong Internet connection - we recommend a minimum of 2 Mbps download, and 1 Mbps upload, faster if possible. You can test your network speed here https://www.speedtest.net

Please source the following materials:

A2 Cartridge pad
Soft drawing pencils (nothing harder than a B)

During the course students will be encouraged to work with a variety of different media from the list above and also to bring in any other media they wish to try, e.g.:

Charcoal
Graphite
Oil pastels
Marker pens
Other collage materials
A camera can also be very helpful to take pictures of the drawing model to keep for reference, collage purposes etc., but is by no means essential!