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22. Rendering Media
Fashion renderings are usually created in pencil,
marker, or paint. Today, the pixel is another
medium for drawing fashion with the aid of
computer software. Whether it's a fashion note
on a napkin, style schematics in a notebook, or
fashion shorthand in chalk on a chalkboard, the
goal is the exchange of ideas.
There is a mystique around the art of fashion,
as though only a select few are entitled to even
attempt to create it. Although not everyone who
sits down to draw will produce art to rival the
work of Steven Stipelman or Antonio Lopez, it's
important to remember that these masters are
illustrators and not designers. Honing the skills
required to commit concepts to paper is primar
ily about hand to eye coordination, which only
comes with time and practice.
A carefully conceived drawing, in which style
lines, design details, and proportions have been
thoughtfully planned out, will help make the next
step-draping and/o r patternmaking-move
that much faster.
SO Fashion Design Essentials
Right: French designer Yves
Saint Laurent using chalk to
sketch fashion designs on
a chalkboard in the atelier
of the House of Christian
Dior, where he has just
been named as successor
to couturier Christian Dior,
Paris, November 1957.
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