Full Description
Delve into the art of menswear illustration and learn what it takes to create professional, praiseworthy fashion sketches.
With over 300 color examples, illustrator and educator Lamont O'Neal uses a mixture of watercolor, marker, pencil and digital tools to help you master fundamentals such as anatomy and proportion. Later chapters focus on garment drawing, the principles of balance and movement as well classic poses and how they can highlight a design.
There's also a guide to the history of menswear illustration, with introductions to some of the most influential practitioners and discussion of how to develop your own individual style by using hand drawing as an expression of individual style and creativity. There are also reference photographs showing how sketches and illustrations relate to the finished garment, making this the ultimate guide to drawing and rendering the male fashion figure.
Profiles: Cody Cannon, Carlos Aponte, Mengjie Di, Brian Lane, Ryan McMenamy, Emee Mathew, Francisco Cortés
Key topics: Drawing the Male Fashion Figure, Movement, Drawing the Clothed Figure, Drawing the Garment, Rendering Techniques, Digital Art
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
The Fashionable Male: A Brief History in Four Figures
1. Men's Fashion Illustration: An Overview
The Golden Age of Men's Fashion Illustration
The Post-War Years: 1945-1960
The Silver Age of Men's Fashion
Men's Fashion Illustration Today: 1990-
2. Drawing the Male Fashion Figure
What makes a good fashion drawing?
What is the difference between a design sketch and a fashion illustration?
Proportion
Basic anatomy and the simplified construction of the figure
The Principal Bones of the Body
The Muscles of the Body
A Simplified Construction of the Figure
The Upper Torso
Arms, Legs, Hands and Feet
Drawing the Male Head
Art Supplies
3. Movement
The Balance or Center Front
Action Lines
Contrapposto
Walking Poses
Foreshortening
Gestures
4. Drawing the Clothed Figure: Creating Dimension
Line and Contour
Shape Within Shape
Mass
Directions
5. Drawing the Garment: Details
The Basics: Suit and Blazer
Outerwear
Knits and Sweaters
Sportswear
Accessories: Hats, Shoes, and Bags
6. Rendering Techniques
Color Rendering: Marker, Watercolor, Gouache, Color Pencil
Collage and Mixed Media
Pattern and Texture: Herringbone, Checks, Plaids, and Stripes, Fur, Tweeds, Knits, Leather, Sheer and Shiny Fabrics
Technical Drawings: Flats and Floats
7. Digital Art
Converting Hand Drawn Figures into Digital Design Sketches
Creating Digital Freehand Drawings
Developing Analog and Digital Garment Flats
8. Profiles
Cody Cannon
Carlos Aponte
Mengjie Di
Brian Lane
Ryan McMenamy
Emee Mathew
Francisco Cortés
Bibliography
Index
