Certificate in Fashion Design
Module Name: Fashion Illustration
Module Mentor: Mr Avraham Animashaun
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 1
Introduction to the art of Fashion Illustration (Understanding why fashion should be treated as art)
- Shapes, lines and geometric shapes
- Human Anatomy
- Building rhythm with your paper and pencil
- Angular figures (take 1)
Week 2
- Angular figures (take 2)
- Fleshing out the Croquis
- Fleshing out the Croquis (front, profile and back view)
Week 3
- Analysis of body movement (spinal and limb movements)
- Facials (Basic facial details)
- Basics face shapes and dimensions
- Basic eye shapes, nose, lips, hair…
Week 4
- Introduction to fashion technical drawing
- Flats: drawing and tracing different fashion silhouettes
Week 5
Art forms and Illustration
- Accessories: how to draw bags, shoes, necklaces, sunglasses and indigenous headgears
Week 6
- Review of flats
- Elements of design
Week 7
- Clothing the Croquis
- Elements of design in fashion
Week 8
- Short treatise on the color theory
- Croquis book practice
Week 9
- Putting together a proper fashion collection
- Croquis book practice
Week 10
- Review and project assessment
- Project
- Submission of long term assignments
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.