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Fashion Sketchbook for 16 - 18 Year Olds

Fashion Sketchbook for 16 - 18 Year Olds

Peter Towse BA

This course explores the different ways to create the fashion designer's handbook - your personal fashion sketchbook. Creating a sketchbook is a chance for you to unlock your creative mind. It is a vehicle for you to challenge yourself, collect, record and process inspiration, try out ideas, explore success and failure, and to take risks. It is a place where nothing is precious. This course will help you source, research and develop your fashion ideas whilst being fun and exhilarating. There will be suggested venues to visit incorporating some of London's shops, museums, street markets, buildings, galleries and gardens as points of resource. A host of different techniques and media will be demonstrated at the start of each day so that students can explore different types of drawing skills. At the end of the course the outcome will be a big fat sketchbook filled with ideas, potential fashion collections and new confidence to feed the imagination and develop proposals.

Peter Towse is a practising artist with fifteen years practical experience of the fashion business. He teaches story boarding to MA film directors and was also area leader for fashion on the Foundation 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:

  • 5 x sheets of A1 Cartridge Paper
  • 6B graphite pencil
  • Progresso graphite stick
  • Stabilo 'Tone' pencils (Aqua type and Thick body):
  • Yellow No. 200 (or any light colour)
  • Red/scarlet No. 370 (or any medium colour)
  • Jade No. 470 (or any medium colour)
  • Blue No. 425 (or any dark colour).
  • 1 putty rubber
  • 1 A3 sketchbook hardback
  • A3 tracing paper pad
  • 1 three quarter inch roll of masking tape
  • Daler rowley acrylic starter pack of paints
  • 12 sticks of conte chalk colour
  • 1 pritt stick
  • Small can of fixitive
  • Plastic water pot
  • Plastic mixing pallette
  • Half inch household paintbrush
  • Half inch daler square paint brush
  • 6 or 7 sable or squirrel hair paint brush
  • 1 small pot of pva glue
  • 1 old copy of fashion magazine for cutting up