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First, I have to congratulate myself because I graduated on Friday! Hallelujah! College is over and I now have to join the real world. Bugger.
Second, I have a treat for everybody: I am going to start posting tutorials about various aspects of fashion design including illustration, Photoshop, couture sewing, fashion history, etc. So for the first little morsel of how-to yumminess I will explain the basic fashion figure (croquis). One of the best books I can suggest for illustration is Illustrating Fashion: concept to creation by Steven Stipelman, probably the most well known illustrator from the later 20th century especially the 1980s-1990s. If you can find the book definitely try to purchase it.
Let’s being by breaking down the basic figure. The average fashion illustration is approximately 10 heads high. To make this easier I suggest grabbing a piece of graph paper and marking the following measurements to equal 10″:
- The first section contains the head, the chin on the 1″ line
- 1 1/2″ shoulder line
- 2 1/4″ high point of the bust
- 3 1/4″ waistline
- 3 1/2″ high hip
- 4″ fullest part of hip
- 4 1/2″ lowest part of hip or crotch (this is generally the middle of the fashion figure)
- 6 1/2″ knee
- 9 1/4″ ankle
- 10″ toe
Now for widths. If you take the figure’s head and turn it on its side, this will give you the appropriate measurement:
- shoulders are 1 1/2 – 1 3/4 heads wide
- waist is approx. 3/4 heads wide
- hips are approx. 1 1/4 head wide
To simplify things, I have drawn out the measurements for your use! Just remember to enlarge it:
This concludes part one of the tutorial, I will post part two: blocking off the figure, later today. I hope this helps! Feel free to ask questions
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My name is zahidul Islam Rifat. I am a fashion design student I want to that how draw about human figure.
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Rifat
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