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This beautifully illustrated and inspirational book is written by one of the world's leading fashion designers and illustrators, Anna Kiper.
Designed for newcomers and improvers to fashion illustration, the book will show you how to construct the head and figure, compose for impact, and use all available media. Achieve movement and attitude in figure drawing by following a few simple steps; develop striking and energetic page compositions; explore effortless ways to illustrate print, textures and embellishments; and discover an exciting variety of media and techniques to enrich your individual drawing style.
You will learn via step exercises, hardworking fashion sketches and simply beautiful fashion illustrations.
Then put everything you have learned into practice by using illustration to design a couture collection of evening dresses.
"A hand drawing creates a direct connection to the artist, expressing the individual style, energy and creativity" - from Anna Kiper's introduction
Contents: Introduction, The Fashion Figure, The Figure in Detail, Faces, Arms & Hands, Legs & Feet, Dressing the Fashion figure, Fashion Dictionary, Fashion Flats, Accessories, Page Composition with Impact, Illustrating Men, Illustrating Children, Fabric Rendering Techniques, Exploring Media, Model Drawing, Inspiration, Mood, Design
About the Author
She has worked at Calvin Klein and Mondi, and has dressed celebrities including Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry and others for red carpet events and magazine covers.
She is also a professor at the two most prestigious fashion colleges in New York, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Parsons School of Design.
Anna's work has been widely published and exhibited at top venues in the United States.
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You see, Anna's illustrations are just so bloomin' lovely that you will, almost inevitably, want to be able to achieve the same standard for yourself, and sadly the book contains an extreme lack of practical, 'how-to' advice of the step-by-step variety, meaning it isn't an especially helpful book in terms of instruction. Perhaps this goes to show just how wonderful her craftmanship (craftswomanship?) really is, because despite the frustration caused by the fact that her working methods are not shared within the pages of the book I'm still giving it a full five stars.
She seems to have that rare ability of being able to weave magic with pens and pencils. Her artwork is raw, dynamic and yet beautiful all at the same time. The pages are like an explosion of colour and dynamism, a testament to human creativity. Every time I open her book, I end up just standing or sitting around gawping at it for far too long, trying to figure out how I might go about raising my work to the same standard.
So, if you're looking to copy her style, you're just going to have to look closely and try to intuit what she's done. But for sheer inspiration, well, I'd give it six stars if I could, which is saying something 'cause I almost never give anything even five stars these days.
It's currently my favourite book (along with the long-awaited re-release of Figure Drawing For All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis, an absolute treasure if you want to draw people) and I'm glad that I own it if for no other reason than that I really like looking at it. I only hope that Anna reads this review and considers producing another book, or perhaps a website or, even better, a course, within which she could share much more of her preferred techniques. With that said, if you're the type of person who has art books on your shelves, whether to learn from or simply to look at, I think you'd like owning this little gem.
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