Why do your fashion sketches look like children's drawings ?
Many people think the problem is a lack of talent. But it is not!
It's about not knowing the basic rules. If you don't follow them, you drawing look childish…
It's about not knowing the basic rules. If you don't follow them, you drawing look childish…
If I didn't know these rules, my sketches could look something like this…
Let's find 7 differences mistakes together
Error 1. Thick bold pencil
Drawing with thick dull pencils is a typical feature of all children's drawings
What to do. Draw only with a sharply sharpened pencil. Sharpen your pencil every 5-10 minutes. Or better yet, buy a 0.3 mm mechanical pencil
Drawing with thick dull pencils is a typical feature of all children's drawings
What to do. Draw only with a sharply sharpened pencil. Sharpen your pencil every 5-10 minutes. Or better yet, buy a 0.3 mm mechanical pencil
Error 2. Even pencil pressure
Pressure conveys volume, contrast, and perspective. If the pressure is uniform, the drawing looks flat, even if it is very carefully drawn with a thin pencil!
What to do. Draw bolder lines in shaded areas and thin and light in other places
Pressure conveys volume, contrast, and perspective. If the pressure is uniform, the drawing looks flat, even if it is very carefully drawn with a thin pencil!
What to do. Draw bolder lines in shaded areas and thin and light in other places
Failure 3. Lines that look like ruler-drawn
Another typically childish mistake. If you carefully study any reference, you will notice that there are no straight lines. Even if a line looks straight from afar, in reality it's arc-shaped
What to do. Draw softer and more relaxed lines. Avoid the effect as if the line was drawn under a ruler
Another typically childish mistake. If you carefully study any reference, you will notice that there are no straight lines. Even if a line looks straight from afar, in reality it's arc-shaped
What to do. Draw softer and more relaxed lines. Avoid the effect as if the line was drawn under a ruler
Error 4. Flat sketch
All horizontal lines (e.g. hemlines) in fashion sketching creates 3D effect. If they are straight - our brain perceives the drawing as a flat object. If they are curved incorrectly the brain sees an optical illusion and “breaks down"
What to do. Learn perspective and rules to draw hemlines, geometric prints, belts and other horizontal elements
All horizontal lines (e.g. hemlines) in fashion sketching creates 3D effect. If they are straight - our brain perceives the drawing as a flat object. If they are curved incorrectly the brain sees an optical illusion and “breaks down"
What to do. Learn perspective and rules to draw hemlines, geometric prints, belts and other horizontal elements
Error 5. Clothing has no thickness
Any even the tightest fitting fabric has a certain thickness. It wraps around the body. Kids don't care about this, but we should do
What we do. Leave a space between the body and the clothes
Any even the tightest fitting fabric has a certain thickness. It wraps around the body. Kids don't care about this, but we should do
What we do. Leave a space between the body and the clothes
Error 6. Secondary folds
Children often try to draw «everything they see». And if there is a small crease on the reference, they draw it as well. And instead of drawing it with very gentle and barely noticeable lines (as it actually looks) they overdo
What we do. We draw just the primary folds. And everything else either do not draw, or draw very very faintly
Children often try to draw «everything they see». And if there is a small crease on the reference, they draw it as well. And instead of drawing it with very gentle and barely noticeable lines (as it actually looks) they overdo
What we do. We draw just the primary folds. And everything else either do not draw, or draw very very faintly
Error 7. No shadows
Children ignore the fact that there are shadows, they are not interested in them
What to do. Don't ignore shadows. Draw them either stylized (as I do) or full-fledged
Children ignore the fact that there are shadows, they are not interested in them
What to do. Don't ignore shadows. Draw them either stylized (as I do) or full-fledged
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