Now that I've familiarized myself with the figure and proportions that would make a person look like a Barbie doll in real life I can begin to draw some outfits and maybe stylize the figure a little bit. I don't necessarily want to draw my own clothing or designs on the figure until I'm quite familiar with the shapes and movement, so for now, I'll stick to drawing clothes and designs from photographs or inspired by other fashion sketches or drawings.
This website has still been very helpful for my attempt to dive deeper into sketching high-fashion. I've just been searching for outfits on Google and drawing the ones that appeal to me. Also, I asked some friends to send me ideas for what to draw. Some have requested for me to draw their own outfits, celebrities, and so on. Here are some of the drawings based off of photos that had been requested:
As you (and I) can clearly see, my later drawings are better and more intriguing than the beginning ones. Improvement comes over time and practice with anything. Sketching is no exception.
After my experiments with
drawing existing outfits, I'll try to figure out the walking pose and
begin sketching my own ideas for designs. A tutorial for the "walking pose" is also available on the same website that I've been using, so maybe I can experiment with that a little.
For my 20% project, I think I'm going to focus more on the style of fashion sketches, and if I have time, I'll begin to develop my own style. But before I can begin drawing clothes or hairstyles, I'll have to know how to draw the body first.
For a more realistic style of art, I've been reading through a book I have called The Figure: A Classic Approach to Drawing and Construction by Walt Reed, which gives lots of tips and shows many different poses and aspects of the many varieties of the human shape. After looking through this book and trying a few of the strategies, I decided that high-fashion sketching was a) more fun, b) more style-oriented, and c) more down the alley that I want to go in the future.
I have some experience in fashion sketching from last year's Commercial Arts I class, but I needed a refresher, so I searched for some tutorials on how to sketch the body and its proportions that are practically unattainable in real life but are the standard for stylistic fashion sketches. I found a few sites, but this website seemed to be the most helpful.
To familiarize myself with the basic shape and proportions of this body style, I just drew the same thing over and over, becoming more individual and less dependent on the tutorial each time. Here are some of my experiments:
For my next post, hopefully I'll have something a little more interesting to share than a tall, skinny outline.
Introductions are always awkward, but I'll see what I can do.
Ahem.
I'm Valerie. For this project, I have to spend 20% of my time exploring a new activity. So now that the year is coming to a close and I have to do this project, what better way to spend 20% of my time than to get back into drawing?
My goal for this project is to make progress in drawing figures, both the high-fashion style and (hopefully, if I get to it) realistic -- and possibly even begin the process of developing my own style of art. I'm also making it a goal to add a gif to each of my posts, but that's not really that relevant to the project.
I'll keep you, nonexistent readers, up to date on my progress with drawing figures. Hope I don't bore you too much. That's what the gifs are for.
And also, here is some of my previous art from the beginning of this year. I can use this to gauge how much I've improved.
First blog post: done.
Until next time.
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