Week Seven: Drawing Flats
Click on the video below to see Kathryn Hagen (the author of your required text, Fashion Illustration for Designers) use a template to create a flat drawing. When the video ends, her next step would be to fold the tracing paper flat directly on the center front of the garment and trace the exact lines she made on the left to the right side of the garment for a perfectly symmetrical flat.
If you have an asymmetrical design, you would draw in whatever is symmetrical on one side (like the silhouette or outside line of the garment) and fold the tracing paper on the center front and copy the symmetrical part to the other side of the flat. Then you would go in and add in all the asymmetrical details of the garment. You may draw in pencil first, but the finished copy should be on layout paper using a variety of line sizes with permanent black markers. These flats should not be filled in with color, texture or patterns Use a bold line for the outside of the garment and a finer line for the inside details of the garment.
Here are some other points to remember when drawing flats. Each garment should be drawn separately. There should be no overlapping of garments even if they would be worn together. Details are very important! Keep in mind that these flats may be used to construct your garment overseas by non-English speaking people. A proportional drawing is key to the success of your flat and the final construction of the garment.
If you have an asymmetrical design, you would draw in whatever is symmetrical on one side (like the silhouette or outside line of the garment) and fold the tracing paper on the center front and copy the symmetrical part to the other side of the flat. Then you would go in and add in all the asymmetrical details of the garment. You may draw in pencil first, but the finished copy should be on layout paper using a variety of line sizes with permanent black markers. These flats should not be filled in with color, texture or patterns Use a bold line for the outside of the garment and a finer line for the inside details of the garment.
Here are some other points to remember when drawing flats. Each garment should be drawn separately. There should be no overlapping of garments even if they would be worn together. Details are very important! Keep in mind that these flats may be used to construct your garment overseas by non-English speaking people. A proportional drawing is key to the success of your flat and the final construction of the garment.
Assigned Reading:
Read pages 155-160 in The Ultimate Fashion Study Guide for an understanding of flat drawing.
Read pages 112-114 in Fashion Illustration for Designers on creating flat drawings.
Click on the link below to watch this tutorial on using Wallwisher.com
Watch the first 9 minutes of a second video that you will find under Week 10 called Creative Uses of Technology, that shows you how to use Wallwisher.com specifically as you are assigned to create your own Web 2.0 critique tool to participate in the online critique.
Click on the link below to be taken to Wallwisher.com
http://www.Wallwisher.com
To receive your 2 participation points for Week Seven, complete the exercise below:
You will need to create an account in Wallwisher and post a .jpg photo of your 2D flats that you created this week by Sunday ending Week Seven. Follow the steps in the video above to create the account, post your pic and label your page. Post the link to your Wall in the course blog by Sunday ending Week Seven.
The entire Flats Project is due by Sunday ending Week Eight. Only the 2D Flats are due for the participation points above. This entire project is worth 15 points and should be uploaded using the submission feature at the bottom of this page.
Fifteen points will be awarded for projects that are neat, use a variety of lines, flats that have straight symmetrical lines, figures that look like the garment is wrapping around the body and where the action of the body shows in the the way the garment is drawn.
Details for the project are outlined in the Flats Project Document below (this will be the same file as shown in Week Eight):
Details for the project are outlined in the Flats Project Document below (this will be the same file as shown in Week Eight):
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