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Fashion Drawing for Beginners

Fashion Drawing for Beginners

Alexis Panayiotou

Fashion drawing is essential to facilitate the expression of ideas in the work of fashion designers. This course, for practising designers or would-be illustrators, teaches the rudiments of the subject. Intensive drawing from the fashion model comprises the main work of the class. The emphasis is on individual tuition and practical demonstration. Topics to be covered include: figure drawing, media skills, fabric interpretation and personal style. Figure drawing exercises place emphasis on observation, co-ordination, structure and movement.

Alexis Panayiotou is a fashion illustrator and tutor on the BA Fashion course at Central Saint Martins.

Alternative Dates and Times
Many of our courses are repeated throughout the year. If the above dates is not suitable for you, or there are no dates showing for this session, then please choose an alternative session.

Please bring with you to the first session:

  • A3 or A2 Cartridge pad
  • Soft drawing pencils (nothing harder than a B)
  • Soft putty rubber and pencil sharpener
  • Either a marker pen, felt tip pen, biro or pilot drawing pen, (medium thickness)
  • Colouring pencils (at least 3 colours or more)
  • Soft pastels (at least 3 colours or more)
  • Paint, either watercolour, gouache, acrylic or ink. (at least 3 colours or more)
  • Pot for water and mixing pallette
  • A couple of brushes, (perhaps a fine one for detail and a larger one for blocking in colour)

Collage materials, eg:

  • 1 fashion magazine
  • Scissors or scalpel
  • Pritt-stick or masking tape

During the course students will be encouraged to work with a variety of different media from the list above and also to bring in any other media they wish to try, eg:

  • Charcoal
  • Graphite
  • Oil pastels
  • Marker pens
  • Other collage materials
  • A camera can also be very helpful to take pictures of the drawing model to keep for reference, collage purposes etc, but is by no means essential!

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