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Arts & CraftsHow to Draw Fashion Sketches

How to Shade Depth on Fashion Sketches

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Once you’ve gotten your base color on there, it’s really important to go in and shade and color your fashion illustration. So what I then do is I take a color pencil, just really work the color into the corner and design lines of the garment. You want to think also about where the light is hitting this garment, so you always want to darken around the edges.

You want to kind of carry it up the seam lines a bit to create some saturation. It’s another great way if your dress happens to be drapey to show drape, texture, what have you. So I’m going to go in here, really shade in on her waist. You’re basically just really driving it home, making it sure that your point is getting across to your viewer. All right, and then I take my handy smudge stick and I just blend, and I could do this for days, you know, one of those things. And that is pretty much how you shade in color, your fashion illustration.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Color a Fashion Sketch

How to Indicate a Zipper on a Fashion Sketch

What Are Front & Back Fashion Croquis?

How to Add Color, Texture & Shadows to a Fashion Sketch

How to Retrace a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw a Wedding Dress for a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw a Seamline for a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw Draping for a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw a Women’s Jacket for a Fashion Sketch

How to Get into the Fashion Design Business

How to Shade Texture on a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw Shoes for a Fashion Sketch

How to Shade Depth on Fashion Sketches

What Is a Fashion Croquis?

How to Draw a Pattern for a Fashion Sketch

How to Trace a Photograph for a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw Hands for a Fashion Sketch

How to Fine-Tune a Fashion Design

How to Add Details to a Fashion Croquis

How to Indicate the Inside of the Garment on a Sketch

What Are Spec & Line Sheets / Flats in Fashion Design?

How to Draw a Corset for a Fashion Sketch

How to Indicate a Placket on a Fashion Sketch

What Supplies Will You Need for Fashion Sketches?

How to Finish a Fashion Sketch

How to Indicate a Button on a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw Lace for a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw Hair for a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw a Pleat or Fold on a Fashion Sketch

How to Draw Fashion Sketches with Garo Sparo

What Are Some Fashion Sketching Shortcuts?

How to Draw a Figure for a Fashion Sketch

11 Fashion Sketching Tips & Techniques

How to Draw a Fashion Sketch for Different Body Types

How to Draw a Fashion Model

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