How To Draw Fashion Flat Sketches

The ability to draw technical flats is an essential skill for every fashion designer. Flats are used to brainstorm variety of design options in the early stages of the design process. They are the preferred approach when designers need to quickly brainstorm 50 or more ideas that will be later shrunk to the best 10 included in the final collection. A much more refined version of the same flats is used in factories to get the clothes manufactured. In addition well drawn designs flats make a beautiful presentation for your clients and investors.

It is a common misunderstanding that flats will save you from the challenge of drawing the fashion figure. Unfortunately model drawings and technical flats are not interchangeable. They serve very different purposes!

The main goal of a fashion sketch with a model wearing the clothes is to show the mood, the proportions, the fabric movement & to suggest a styling. It is your chance to make a little black dress look like 1 million dollars piece. Fashion sketches can sometimes tell beautiful lies to help you sell your ideas.

While flats can only tell the truth. Plain and simple flats serve to show the important details that remain hidden in the artistic drawing. Such could be a hidden zipper, the color of the underlining or stitches.

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