Fashion Illustration: Inspiration and Technique
By Anna Kiper
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Drawing is vitally important for the fashion industry. Now, leading fashion designer and illustrator Anna Kiper contributes to the revival of this unique art form with Fashion Illustration. Every illustration lesson included presents a story with exciting design details and ideas to inspire designers to rediscover the art of hand drawing as a tool for creating vibrant and original work. This book will help you:
- Achieve movement and attitude in figure drawing by following a few simple steps
- Develop striking and energetic page compositions
- Explore effortless ways to illustrate print, textures, and embellishments
- Discover an exciting variety of media and techniques to enrich your individual drawing style
With chapters including The Fashion Figure, Fashion Dictionary, Accessories, Illustrating Men, Illustrating Children, Fabric Rendering Techniques, and more, even beginners can learn to illustrate fashion from a designer’s perspective.
Anna Kiper
Anna Kiper has been involved in the fashion industry for many years, as a fashion forecaster, designer and more recently as an instructor. For the last 14 years she has taught, in New York, fashion portfolio and concept development courses at Fashion Institute of Technology, Parson School of Design, Parsons Paris, Pratt Institute, and Drexel University. Her first book Fashion Illustration: Inspiration and Technique is a bestseller and has been translated into six languages.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book goes into great detail and walks the reader step-by-step in learning to draw a fashion figure. The author also covers bringing color to your illustrations using multiple methods (watercolor, markers, goache, etc). I worked through all the steps as I read this book and, although I’m a beginner, my sketches are now looking far more realistic and stylish. While the author does touch on drawing the male figure and children, the emphasis is on the female fashion figure.
The content is extremely well organized and takes you from the basic proportions and shapes of the figure, to the stylized fashion illustrations you would see from experienced designers.
I highly recommend this book if you are interested in learning fashion illustration. Even someone with stronger drawing skills coming into this would find the book extremely worthwhile. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Some information on drawing the figure, and lots of examples of fabric rendered as clothes, although not a lot of detail on how to create the effects. Pleasant, slightly smudgy drawings.
Book preview
Fashion Illustration - Anna Kiper
INTRODUCTION
It’s a miracle that my interest in fashion took root in Cold War Russia—a land untouched by Western fashion trends and full of grey uniforms, emotional restraint, and hostility toward creative expression and individuality. My only escape from the grim reality of my childhood was reading fairytales and marvelling at the intricacies of the traditional Russian costume illustrations of the famous Bilibin.
In my teenage years, I was opened up to a whole new artistic world when I discovered the magical watercolours of Leon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. The decadence of early 20th century Russia and its influence on art and literature fueled my imagination and creativity. Artists like Vrubel and Roerich, and the poetic genius of Gumilev and Blok influenced my vision, molded my artistic sense, and inspired me to pursue a career in art and fashion. Despite the hardships of immigrating alone to the United States as a young girl and the obstacle of overcoming cultural differences, my interest and commitment to fashion continued to grow.
Throughout history, costumes have often been illustrated by artists with great attention to detail, but it was only through the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec and the ink drawings of Aubrey Beardsley and Erté in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that fashion illustration emerged into an art form. The 30s and 40s saw a glamorous style of fashion illustrated in the work of René Bouët-Willaumez, Carl Erickson, and René Gruau in the 50s. In the 70s and 80s, fashion illustration had a huge impact on fashion design, and the influence of urban street trends on fashion culture was noticeable everywhere. This was evident in the electric brilliance of Antonio Lopez, the New Wave energy of Tony Viramontes, and the bold simplicity of Mats Gustavson.
In the 90s, fashion photography overshadowed illustration—a side effect of the technological revolution. As computers continued to simplify the world and as digital art became popular, the demand for hand-drawn art began to diminish. The studios of Steven Meisel, Sarah Moon, and Tim Walker produced beautiful photography. However, even the most compelling photographs could not replicate the magic of the artist’s hand and the unique relationship that is created between the artist, the artwork, and the viewer. A hand drawing creates a direct connection to the artist, expressing the individual style, energy and creativity.
Drawing is vitally important for the fashion industry. Many top designers, such as Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Lacroix, and Yves Saint Laurent, have freely expressed their ideas by illustrating their own designs on paper as a preliminary step in creating their collections.
This book represents a designer’s point of view on fashion illustration and will hopefully contribute to the revival of this unique art form. Every illustration lesson in