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Fashion Design Croquis: Nine Heads Drawing Guide

Learn how to draw fashion figures with the Nine Heads system, capturing proportions and details for designers and illustrators. The step-by-step guide covers head, torso, limbs, and hands, aiding in creating fashion sketches accurately.

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Fashion Design Croquis: Nine Heads Drawing Guide

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  1. Nine Heads Drawing Croquis

  2. Fashion Designers • Fashion Designers design and sketch garments to communicate their ideas to the design team • Design team includes ; pattern makers, sample machinists and buyers

  3. Fashion Illustrators • Give a signature style to the Fashion Designers creation • Their art work may be used for a design presentation, an advertisement, marketing presentation, or a journalistic visual representation representing not only the illustration but the whole concept of the garment

  4. Inspiration • Fashion seeks inspiration everywhere, from the catwalk to the street • Designers have to be continually on the lookout for innovative idea • Haute couture – elaborate, cutting edge fashion • Sources of inspiration come from magazines, Fashion shows and exhibitions, retail shops, and the streets, just about everywhere

  5. Total Look • Accessories are important from shoes, bags, hair, hats, makeup and jewelry • Elements and Principles of design from shape, texture, silhouettes, color, and line all contribute to the total package.

  6. Fashion Proportions • Typical fashion female body is slender, elongated legs, and square shoulders. • Fashion Figures are measured in HEADS, a way to measure body proportions • Female body measure typically 7 – 8 heads • Fashion illustration uses and elongated body ; 9-10 heads • Why? • Most of the extra leg is added to the legs and torso to a lesser extent

  7. Nine Heads 1 The Nine Head Template is a front facing symmetrical fashion figure measured in head lengths and widths and drawn as ovals and Triangles. Each division line represents one head Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist Hips 4 Crotch 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

  8. Nine Heads 1 Draw the head as an Oval Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist Hips 4 Crotch 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

  9. Nine Heads 1 Draw the head as an Oval Draw the neck from the oval to the shoulders Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist Hips 4 Crotch 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

  10. Nine Heads 1 Draw the head as an Oval Draw the neck from the oval to the shoulders Draw the upper torso as a large inverted triangle . Shoulder to hip – the shoulder is approximately two head width across Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist Hips 4 Crotch 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

  11. Nine Heads 1 Draw the head as an Oval Draw the neck from the oval to the shoulders Draw the upper torso as a large inverted triangle . Shoulder to hip – the shoulder is approximately two head width across Draw the lower torso as a smaller inverted triangle: Hip to crotch – the hip is approximately 1 ¾ head widths Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist Hips 4 Crotch 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

  12. Nine Heads 1 Draw the head as an Oval Draw the neck from the oval to the shoulders Draw the upper torso as a large inverted triangle . Shoulder to hip – the shoulder is approximately two head width across Draw the lower torso as a smaller inverted triangle: Hip to crotch – the hip is approximately 1 ¾ head widths Draw each arm as 2 elongated ovals: upper oval shoulder to elbow, lower elbow to wrist Draw the hands as diamond shapes Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist/elbow Hips 4 Crotch/wrist 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

  13. Nine Heads Draw the head as an Oval Draw the neck from the oval to the shoulders Draw the upper torso as a large inverted triangle . Shoulder to hip – the shoulder is approximately two head width across Draw the lower torso as a smaller inverted triangle: Hip to crotch – the hip is approximately 1 ¾ head widths Draw each arm as 2 elongated ovals: upper oval shoulder to elbow, lower elbow to wrist Draw the hands as diamond shapes Draw each leg as 2 elongated ovals; upper oval hip to knee, lower oval knee to ankle 1 Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist/elbow Hips 4 Crotch/wrist 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

  14. Nine Heads Draw the head as an Oval Draw the neck from the oval to the shoulders Draw the upper torso as a large inverted triangle . Shoulder to hip – the shoulder is approximately two head width across Draw the lower torso as a smaller inverted triangle: Hip to crotch – the hip is approximately 1 ¾ head widths Draw each arm as 2 elongated ovals: upper oval shoulder to elbow, lower elbow to wrist Draw the hands as diamond shapes Draw each leg as 2 elongated ovals; upper oval hip to knee, lower oval knee to ankle Draw the feet as diamond shapes 1 This is your basic Nine Head Template Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist/elbow Hips 4 Crotch/wrist 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

  15. Fleshing Out Head : Oval Shape Neck : Cylinder Shoulders: Smooth wedge or coat hanger Upper Torso: Tapered box from shoulders to waist Lower Torso: Shorter tapered box narrower at waist and top of thighs Thigh to knee: Tapered cylinder Lower leg: Shaped cylinder tapered at both ends Foot: Elongated diamond Upper arms: Narrow tapered cylinder Lower arms: Shaped cylinder tapered at both ends Hands: Diamond 1 Shoulders 2 bust 3 Waist/elbow Hips 4 5 6 Knee 7 8 Ankle 9 Toe

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