Fashion design for beginning stylists and seamstresses
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Hi guys, how are you?! I am the Vania Rosana dos Santos!
From now on, let’s talk a lot around here, ok?! I join the team of blog columnists seamstress club and I am very happy and honored to be part of this team. Before I start talking about the subject of the debut of my column, how about we get to know each other better?! I want to share a little bit of my story, so that you can understand how I got involved with the world of fashion and sewing and became a professional in fashion design.
Since small, drew very easily. At school, everyone wanted to do the artwork with me, but my passion was for paper dolls. I had a collection of them! It was sacred: my father always bought them on Sundays, after the 6:00 am Mass (I made this sacrifice to have them lol).
I was a child like that: with a loose imagination. I come from a family of artists who were born with the gift of music and drawing. That’s why I love everything related to art: drawing, tones, colors, architecture.
I started creating paper clothes for my dolls, because I thought those outfits were too tacky (lol). It was then that I noticed that I loved designing clothes! At the age of nine, I already knew I wanted to be a stylist and created paper dolls and clothes for my friends.
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Years later, I became a professional in progress in Campinas, São Paulo and even before graduating in the fashion design area, I was already working in the area, developing collections for clothing. But with the arrival of my first child, I decided that I needed to be more of a mom than a full-time job. That’s when I taught my first fashion class and I realized that teaching was my professional purpose!
Today, I teach Fashion Design courses over the internet, using the rulers I created: they help stylists and seamstresses to draw in an uncomplicated, practical way and with an attractive result.
My family is my biggest project: I have two children and they are my inspiration for everything I do.
Welcome and make the most of the tips. I hope you feel inspired!
In this my first post, let’s talk about:
How to design fashion?!
The first tool used in the fashion world to expose ideas in the development of a creation is the design. It’s a visual language that has a message for specific purposes, a schema that illustrates a concept in an uncomplicated way..
The first association that is made between the fashion designer and his work is drawing, so it is necessary in some way to know how to express his creation. But, calm down: there is no one right way to design fashion (although the techniques used – and modified – define an elongated figure), your drawing style is the best way for you and it will inevitably be a much better drawing!
But how is it possible to visually express an idea without knowing how to draw? Pay attention: only 5% of people are born with an aptitude for drawing, the rest will only get results by learning and practicing. That is why, the secret is in practice! Practicing the lines of the drawing is just one of the requirements to start exposing your creation, another one even more important is knowledge.
It is necessary to know the elements, techniques, shapes, names of the product to be created. I’ve already met several academics in the fashion course who do not have knowledge of the expression of the lines that determine seams, fit, volumes in fashion design. How is it possible to materialize an idea without the technical knowledge of clothing?
Let’s start working with three items for a good fashion design!
1 – Identify your style
Your drawing, yes, this drawing of yours that you tear the paper off every time you finish. Feel your genuine and sincere inspiration in your path, identify yourself. See how easy it is for you to sketch without complications. Faced with a result, practice this drawing of yours countless times.
2 – Acquire knowledge
Before practicing, have the knowledge. We need to know what will be created. When I say know, I mean, know the shape from the sketch to the finished piece. Come on, I’ll give you an example: I create, in my mind, a dress that has structured sleeves (puffs), with a deep round neckline, a defined waist and a skirt with a small circle.
I drew without this knowledge that I spoke. Do you understand?! In addition to the childlike appearance, I didn’t draw lines of seams, trims and shapes that make up the model. In the technical language of this creation I will have to specify, declare and process these elements. I will now make a model with knowledge of the forms that each element competes.
In front of the two figures, we were able to observe the knowledge expressed in the last drawing.
3 – Practice!
Of course, this knowledge is needed far beyond paper. We need to know which fabric is suitable for the model, the cut of the thread… With this practice we will create skill and with it perfection!
Perfect not in the concept of being, but in the genuine, authentic state. Practice increases the possibilities, acquiring conscious proportions in the drawing. From this design comes the freedom of expression that so many stylists crave!
Learn fashion design with sketch rulers
https://youtu.be/ZMCZpp5MBxI
To help you develop your skills and lead you to make more accurate and professional drawings , I created the rulers sketch!
If you’re always on what the Maximus Fabrics put in social networks, you already know that they now have a channel on YouTube and that I participated in one of the videos!
I went to the store in Toledo for the Camila Nishida interview me. In the video I tell you a little about what led me to create these drawing rulers.
If you haven’t seen it yet, give play there!
Also take the opportunity to subscribe to the Maximus Fabrics channel HERE!
So, let’s get to know each of the rules? Pay attention to the links that direct you to product pages, ok?! 😉
1. Female Body Ruler
It was developed based on the anatomy of the woman’s body fashion figure. Its purpose is to facilitate the contour of the female silhouette and create sketches with professional precision.
BUY your Ruler Sketch Female Body HERE!
https://youtu.be/NLtHzqMcM9o
2. Articulated Female Body Ruler
It is a revolutionary ruler that allows the creation of sketches with more than 20 positions. The transposition of the limbs allows numerous poses of the sketch, from the basic positions (front and back) to the figure walking.
BUY your Ruler Sketch Female Body Articulated HERE!
3. Child Body Ruler
Allows the creation of perfect children’s sketches, even by people who have never had any experience with fashion design. With it it is possible to draw for both girls and boys.
BUY your Ruler Croqui Infant Body HERE!
4. Juvenile Body Ruler
Based on the anatomy of the juvenile body, this ruler is ideal for drawing sketches of teenagers with precision and practicality.
BUY your Youth Body Sketch Ruler HERE!
5. Male Body Ruler
This ruler makes it possible to create accurate drawings of male figures.
BUY your Ruler Sketch Male Body HERE!
6. Ruler Skirts
It serves as a template for designs of different styles and lengths of skirts.
BUY your Ruler Croqui Skirts HERE!
7. Ruler Clothing Necklines / Blouses
Offers precision and ease for those who need to design models of necklines and blouses to create different looks that characterize the most varied feminine styles.
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8. Clothing Ruler Collars/Sleeves
With this ruler the finishing of the collars and sleeves in the sketches are more professional and the result more elegant.
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9. Hair Ruler 1 and 2
These rulers serve as a template for different models of women’s cuts and hairstyles.
BUY your Hair Sketch Ruler HERE!
All professionals in the cutting and sewing area, fashion students, stylists and pattern makers, can, in just a few minutes, produce an elegant sketch that adds value and quality to their work as a whole using these rulers. They are produced in PETG material, which is a new generation of acrylic, stronger and more resistant, with a thin thickness to facilitate the sliding of the pencil in drawing production. Its dimension of 13.5cm x 31cm in height is ideal for working on A4 sulfite.
How to draw sketches of skirts and pants in an amazing way!
I find it impressive – and very useful – the amount of options for these pieces of women’s clothing. Over the years, many novelties have appeared with democratic models and others valuing only a few physical types. Comfortable and versatile, skirts and pants are responsible for creating looks that range from the most casual and modern to the most elegant and refined.
The difficulty arises when seamstresses and stylists beginning in the profession are faced with a list of names for these pieces, and end up just “outlining” a model on paper, giving only that basic explanation to the potential client, which ends up being very superficial.
Well, that might not be a problem for you anymore. I can say that anyone (but anyone!) can use the rulers to make a fashion drawing!
With specific strokes when drawing your model on paper, you can represent completely different part concepts!
Skirts
To understand the trajectory of skirts in time, it is necessary to define skirt as a piece that covers the lower part of the body and has no division between the legs. It survived for different periods and adapted to the customs, traditions and standards of each period, becoming longer, shorter, tighter or voluminous.
In the middle of the 14th century, a period pointed out by some historians as the beginning of the aesthetic movement called fashion, clothing began to be used as a form of social differentiation. In the eighteenth century, clothing is widely used as a way to demonstrate wealth and differentiate the nobles from the commoners. In the 20’s, Coco Chanel presented models with length up to the middle of the shins, dry and more functional. Christian Dior gave glamor to the skirts with the creation of the New look with evase and godet models.
In 1960, another evolution of the skirt was signed by stylist Mary Quant, who presented the miniskirt for the first time, breaking barriers at the time and popularizing the model. Since then, the skirt has gone through numerous transformations, gaining lengths, volumes and quite varied shapes, having an ideal model for every occasion and taste.
- Identifying the lengths:
You can define each skirt model using the Skirt Ruler:
Click here to discover and buy Régua Croqui – Skirts!
The different types of skirts can be seen on the streets and on the catwalks in very different models: pleated, pencil, balloon, among others. Each model with its peculiarities and knowing them is important to properly develop the modeling of the piecess. Now I’m going to show you the most used types of skirts and models:
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