Modern Fashion Drawing by Dora L. Shackell, W. Stuart Masters (1980, Book)
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Author: Dora L. Shackell,W. Stuart Masters
Publisher: Gordon Press
Publication Date: 1980-01-01
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN-10: 0849022665
ISBN-13: 9780849022661
Product ID: EPID4727200
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ART DECO Vintage 30s book. FASHION ILLUSTRATION~DRAWINGReview created: 07/06/08(updated 07/17/08)
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A Guide to the Profession as a Textbook for Beginner, Free-lance, and practicing Artist Covering the whole field of Modern Fashion Illustration.
This fantastic vintage fashion drawing book is a fabulous resource for the study of 1930s fashion or fashion illustration.
The 1978 edition us a reprint of the 1934 ed. published by I. Pitman, London.
The vintage publication includes some fashion drawing techniques but is not a step-by-step fashion illustration course. The book is a 1930s perspective into the fashion illustration industry. Includes information on learning to draw, fashion drawing techniques, composition, study methods and processes, and wash, line, line and wash, and color, plus tips on getting a job in the fashion drawing industry.
BOOK CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: THE MODERN DEMAND FOR FASHIONS
What this book stands for - Fashion drawing is advertising - The need of knowledge - On the history of dress - And fashion - Fashion is history - The modern trend.
CHAPTER II~ REWARDS OF THE PROFESSION
Fashion drawing pays - What the free-lance earns - Scales of payment - Augmenting income - Other considerations - The world and the fashion artist - The moral reward
CHAPTER III~ LEARNING TO DRAW
How and where to study - Cardinal principles of drawing - Drawing the figure - Some important proportions - Arm and hand - Back and Spine - Breast - Ear - Eye - Face - Hair - Head - Legs and feet - Mouth and chin - Neck - Nose - Pelvis and pose - The Shoulders - Trunk - Drapery - Materials - At work
CHAPTER IV~ FASHION TECHNIQUE
What technique is - About detail - Figure proportions - Pose, and stock poses -Action in poses - Composition - Background - About card and board - Different clients - Construction: the pencil sketch - Rough sketches - Paper-pattern designs - Seams - Catalogue work and blocks - Hats - Furs - White paint - Still life - Models and references.
CHAPTER V~ WASH, LINE, LINE AND WASH, AND COLOUR
Explanation of terms - Special uses of the different mediums - Wash - Board - Materials: Silk, Velvet, Fur - Lingerie - General - Dry brush work - Line - Mechanical screens - Color line - Line and wash - Color - Technique of reproduction
CHAPTER VI~ COMPOSITION
Originality - Practical considerations - Twelve golden rules of composition
CHAPTER VII~ STUDIO METHODS AND PROCESSES
In the studio - About hats - Some general hints - References - Reproduction processes - Free-lance
CHAPTER VIII~ ON GETTING A JOB-GAINING EXPERIENCE-SPECIALIZING
Specimens - About clothes - Types of work - About studios - A beginner's salary - Holding a job - About contracts - The free-lance
This fantastic vintage fashion drawing book is a fabulous resource for the study of 1930s fashion or fashion illustration.
The 1978 edition us a reprint of the 1934 ed. published by I. Pitman, London.
The vintage publication includes some fashion drawing techniques but is not a step-by-step fashion illustration course. The book is a 1930s perspective into the fashion illustration industry. Includes information on learning to draw, fashion drawing techniques, composition, study methods and processes, and wash, line, line and wash, and color, plus tips on getting a job in the fashion drawing industry.
BOOK CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: THE MODERN DEMAND FOR FASHIONS
What this book stands for - Fashion drawing is advertising - The need of knowledge - On the history of dress - And fashion - Fashion is history - The modern trend.
CHAPTER II~ REWARDS OF THE PROFESSION
Fashion drawing pays - What the free-lance earns - Scales of payment - Augmenting income - Other considerations - The world and the fashion artist - The moral reward
CHAPTER III~ LEARNING TO DRAW
How and where to study - Cardinal principles of drawing - Drawing the figure - Some important proportions - Arm and hand - Back and Spine - Breast - Ear - Eye - Face - Hair - Head - Legs and feet - Mouth and chin - Neck - Nose - Pelvis and pose - The Shoulders - Trunk - Drapery - Materials - At work
CHAPTER IV~ FASHION TECHNIQUE
What technique is - About detail - Figure proportions - Pose, and stock poses -Action in poses - Composition - Background - About card and board - Different clients - Construction: the pencil sketch - Rough sketches - Paper-pattern designs - Seams - Catalogue work and blocks - Hats - Furs - White paint - Still life - Models and references.
CHAPTER V~ WASH, LINE, LINE AND WASH, AND COLOUR
Explanation of terms - Special uses of the different mediums - Wash - Board - Materials: Silk, Velvet, Fur - Lingerie - General - Dry brush work - Line - Mechanical screens - Color line - Line and wash - Color - Technique of reproduction
CHAPTER VI~ COMPOSITION
Originality - Practical considerations - Twelve golden rules of composition
CHAPTER VII~ STUDIO METHODS AND PROCESSES
In the studio - About hats - Some general hints - References - Reproduction processes - Free-lance
CHAPTER VIII~ ON GETTING A JOB-GAINING EXPERIENCE-SPECIALIZING
Specimens - About clothes - Types of work - About studios - A beginner's salary - Holding a job - About contracts - The free-lance
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