It’s time to add those small details – a face, hair, fingers, toes – that will make your croquis complete! (Besides clothes, of course!) Here are some example drawings and pointers that should help you with each.
A gorgeous fashion template for all the designers creating collections for women with curves. This is a template that can carry wide variety of designs - from flare skirts to wide leg pants and evening gowns. The hand on the waist will highlight this area and any design detail you decide to put in there. Don't forget to accessorize! In Croquis Part II I showed how fashion illustrations distort and elongate the human figure. This creates a great visual effect but when it comes to actual designs we draw to scale. So, what if you drew true-to-life scaled drawings of your clients. Perhaps many of you already do.
Face
Lips
Keep it simple, and don’t put too much detail into the lips, especially since they will be so small. (So in other words, not as detailed as the ones above. I just put that picture there as a basic reference for the shape of women’s lips.) Feel free to play around with the shape, width, and thickness of the lips, as they vary from person to person and can create different stylistic feels.
Eyes
As with the lips, don’t make eyes quite as detailed as these, but these give you an idea of a variety of types of ways that you can draw (and later illustrate) eyes. Focus on the eyelashes and the arch of the eyebrows. The eyebrows can make a huge statement within you croquis.
Hair
Obviously, the options for styling the hair are endless! The style doesn’t matter, as long as you, once again, keep it fairly simple. Your don’t want to detract from the rest of you croquis, especially once you add clothing. Some fashion illustrators use hair to show movement. Whatever you choose, the hair should compliment and go with whatever clothing you end up putting on the croquis.
Fingers/Toes
The main point here is to keep the fingers long and elegant as opposed to short and stubby. Toes will obviously be a bit more stubby, but thankfully, toes are hidden in most shoes. Since the hands of croquis can be distracting if not drawn correctly, sometimes it is best that if you haven’t mastered the drawing of hands, or cannot get the hands looking somewhat realistic, keep the hand more stylized in one shape (representing all the fingers). Fashion illustration does not always have to be literal and is often stylized and/or tailored to the illustrator’s strengths.
Now you have mastered the croquis. Let’s get to adding on some clothes!
Womens Templates
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Mens Templates
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Kids Templates
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Shoe Templates
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