Certificate in Fashion Design
Module Name: Fashion Illustration
Duration: 3 Months
Module Mentor: Mr Raphael
Aim of the Module: This practical course is designed to take students from basic skills and knowledge to becoming a Fashion Illustrator in the apparel Industry
Topics to be covered
- Week One
Introduction to the art of Fashion Illustration ( Understanding why fashion should be treated as art)
Basics (1)
- Shapes, lines and geometric shapes
- Human Anatomy
- Building rhythm with your paper and pencil
- Angular figures
- Week Two
- Angular figures
- Art forms in fashion illustration: Impressionism, Pop art, Neo-classicism, Realism
- Fleshing out the Croquis
- Week three
- Fleshing out the Croquis (front, profile and back view)
- Analysis of body movement (spinal and limb movements)
- Facials (Basic facial details)
- Basics face shapes and dimensions
- Basic eye shapes, nose, lips, hair…
- Week four
- Drawing head gears: hats, geles, turbans…
- Art forms in illustration: pointillism, cubism, art deco
- Week five
- Introduction to fashion technical drawing
- Introduction to specs. And tech. Sheet
- Flats: drawing and tracing different fashion silhouettes
- Week Six
- Art forms in Fashion Illustration: surrealism, Art nouveau, Baroque, Rococo.
- Accessories: how to draw bags, shoes, necklaces, sunglasses and indigenous headgears
- Week Seven
- Clothing the Croquis
- Review of flats
- Elements of design
- The color theory
- Croquis book practice
- Week Eight
- Concise elucidation on: elements of design
- Principles of clothing design
- Croquis book practice
- Week Nine
- Putting together a proper fashion collection
- Croquis book practice
- Week Ten
- Review and project assessment
- Submission of long term assignments
- Week 11&12
- Project
Note: Class and take home assignments would be based on the substantive lesson for the week and there’d be long term assignments administered to students before, between and after the course.