At I Draw Fashion you will find an ever-growing collection of over 150 free drawing tutorials. They will help you learn how to draw fashion sketches step by step and achieve professional results with minimal effort. Teya’s fashion drawing tutorials are easy to follow and suitable for beginners. Jan 8, 2021 - Explore Jaemin Ha's board 'Fashion drawing' on Pinterest. See more ideas about fashion, fashion drawing, menswear. Overview of all e-learning online fashion courses & programs on offer at IFA Paris - Learn Online! These courses can all be done by distance learning. First episode of the series to learn how to draw fashion. Follow my channel to be notified when further videos are posted!Today’s tips: 1. Moreover, it's easy to create and manage your own fashion templates with the drawing tools. EdrawMax has an illustrator like toolset, which an apparel designer needs to draw fashion design sketches, flat technical sketches, create and modify texture designs, design embroidery, graphic artwork, and more!
There must be lots of fashion design enthusiasts like me who knows little about drawing. Therefore, we are craving for an easy-to-use fashion design program which requires a minimum learning curve. Luckily that I found Edraw, a fashion design tool that everyone could use, even if you have never learned professional drawing skills. Now let me introduce this awesome software.
Design Clothes with Pre-defined Models
Edraw saves you time from drawing models on your own. In its Fashion Design library, you can get more than 10 built-in models, including women, men, and kids. You can also use models from the built-in examples. What's more, Edraw allows users to draw custom models on your own in case you have special requirements.
Draw Clothes on the Models Using Pen and Pencil Tools
Under 'Symbol' tab of the Ribbon, you will see a set of drawing tools containing 'Pencil Tool', 'Pen Tool', 'Move Anchor', 'Add Anchor', 'Delete Anchor', 'Convert Anchor', and more. It might take a few minutes to get familiar with these tools. You can always turn to the Dynamic Help on the right side of the canvas.
First, use the Pen tool or Pencil tool to sketch out the clothes. Then use Move Anchor and Convert Anchor tool to fine adjust the lines. After that, apply fill color and line colors.
Repeat these steps to add more patterns and embellishments.
Why It's Easy to Use?
- 1. It has a Microsoft's Ribbon interface that it isn't hard to get accustomed pretty quickly.
- 2. Pre-made models let you design your own fashion clothing immediately.
- 3. A large number of pre-drawn fashion design examples are available in the Fashion Design library.
- 4. You don't have a lot to learn, as the tools are quite straightforward to use.
A Fashion Design Example
Download a free trial and see first-hand how quickly and easily you can design your own fashion clothes.
Businesses around the world are demanding higher productivity from their employees. The United States has reached all-time high labor productivity as we get 4 times more work done then our grand-parents in 1950.
Technology has contributed to most of our productivity. With software, information communication, data processing, and automated control, it has made us a smart and sophisticated workforce to our value-added enterprises.
But, with more than 4 million software, browser extensions, phone & tablet apps to choose from, it can get overwhelming. In this blog post we will suggest 15 apps that will make your work much easier, faster, smarter and profitable. In short, better ROI (Return on Investment).
These apps are divided into 5 categories that will walk you through all stages of building a product. These stages include sources for fashion inspiration, applications used for product design, product development apps, manufacturing and marketing. So this is basically the A-Z guide for your entire product development process.
Fashion Inspiration
What is the very first step of the product design? It is getting inspired by something! It doesn't necessarily have to be a piece of clothing, it could be a mood board, movie or a piece of art. Here is a list of our suggested sources to get inspiration from.
WGSN
Printable Fashion Drawing Templates
WGSN is a trend forecasting platform. It constantly monitors how consumers think, feel and behave. Their experts help brands stay relevant by predicting the products, experiences and services people will need in future. WGSN's network of industry experts, provides inspiration to a community of over 43,000 product designers and thought leaders in 32 global markets.
Price: Free registration
Art Authority
Art will always be a biggest source of inspiration in the fashion world. The Art Authority app lets you browse over 100,000+ paintings and sculptures by 1,500 of the Western world’s leading artists from ancient times to today. Their visual library is easy to access and use for every designer.
Price: $4.99
Vogue Runway
Take inspiration from other designers' collections! Vogue Runway is an app created by the world's leading fashion publisher. And it offers unlimited access to the world’s latest collections. Their archive contains over 1 million runway images from over 12,000 fashion shows including the new ones and old from way back to 2000s.
Price: Free
Other apps for fashion inspiration: Pinterest, Business of Fashion, Instagram, The Hunt.
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Design
Fashion design includes sketching an initial idea and technical specifications. The old-school method of sketching on the paper is outdated. These apps will help you sketch your designs fast and customize them on the go.
Adobe Illustrator
Fashion and technical designers use Illustrator to draw flat sketches (or functional sketches) with callouts for construction and styling details to put them in tech packs so your team and manufacturer can easily understand and follow.
If you are new to illustrator then there are some great resources available. You can join free webinars and training classes from Fashion Classroom or Sew Heidi.
Price: $29.99/month
Sketch
Adobe Illustrator has dominated the world of creative software for decades with so many features BUT only until 5 years ago when Sketch was launched.
In a nutshell, Sketch has almost overtaken Adobe Illustrator in the graphic design world. Why? because Sketch is fast, intuitive and has lots of Plugins. There's so much development by third-party developers who continue to create some really smart plugins and keep extending the functionality of Sketch.
Besides, The simplicity and ease of use in exporting and managing assets in Sketch make it an excellent fit for young/up-and-coming designers.
Price: One-time licensing fee $99.
Pret-A-Template
Pret-A-Template is your digital sketchbook. It allows you to sketch your designs on iPhone or iPad. They offer over 500 templates to choose from, including bodies and details like shoes. Select from predefined skin, hair and makeup color pallets for a quick success.
Price: Starts at $5.99
Other apps for fashion design to consider: Sketchbook, Corel Draw.
Fashion Drawing Sketches
Product Development
Product development includes the following stages: design, planning and developing salable products. It involves processes of getting your fashion products ready to manufacture.
Techpacker
Tech packs (or specification sheets) used to be the most time-consuming tasks and every fashion designer will tell you the endless frustrations of creating flat sketches, condensed wordings to fit in a format, amendments and repeateds Row
Finding a manufacturer specific to your product categories is hard. And finding a good one is even harder. You can start by asking around for references however it could be time-consuming. So if you are specifically looking for a manufacturer in the USA with crowd-sourced reviews then Makers Row could be useful. They have a fairly decent list of about 3,900 apparel and accessories related makers that are clearly sorted by categories and rating.
But then, many products still can't be produced locally in the USA and what if you are looking for lower manufacturing costs and a greater number of manufacturers to choose from then Global sources is a good resource as they put a lot of effort into listing factories that meet higher standards compared to its direct competitor Alibaba (another listing website).
Price: Starts at $35/month
Swatchon
Swatchon is a wholesale fabric platform based in Seoul, South Korea. It ships to 52 countries and has 100000 fabrics to choose from online. This platform works with brands of all sizes allowing them to place an order as small as 3 yards, or up to 500,000 yards.
Price: Free for ready-to-wear businesses, $500 prepayment for everyone else.
Higg Co
Higg Co is a technology company that focuses on building tools that power sustainability measurement. Higg Co helps brands reduce energy use, combat audit fatigue, and safeguard those who work in the supply chain. Higg Materials Sustainability Indexallows designers to create custom materials, and understand their environmental impact.
Marketing
When the product is manufactured it's time to sell it! Using the following apps you will be able to build a website, create line sheets and market your business.
Shopify
Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows you to easily set up an online store and start selling. It lets you customize your storefront, accept credit card payments, track and respond to orders — all with a few clicks. It powers over 350,000 businesses and over 1,000 Enterprise Plus customers.
Price: 7 Days free trial, thereafter US$29 per month
Brandboom
Brandboom is a wholesale e-commerce platform to create clean Line sheets, get orders directly from retailers & receive payments in simple steps. After setting up your line sheet, you can directly send a link to your buyers and showrooms so they can book directly and can also pay. This will avoid so many back-&-forth communication and missing critical SKU/sizes etc.
Price: Free with limits and thereafter US$79/mo.
Garmentory
Garmentory is one of the top online marketplaces existing right now. It is an ultimate source of indie boutiques, emerging and contemporary designers. By setting up a store on their online platform Garmentory gives brands access to thousands of customers around the globe.
Boutiques and brands can submit their application on Garmentory website and start selling after it's approved.
Other marketing apps to consider: Afterpay, Like to know it, Faire.
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