Drawing Gown Dress Ideas

The top trend inspiration about drawing gown dress design ideas.

In the fashion world, new designs are presented in the form of hand-drawn sketches before they’re actually cut and sewn. First you draw a croquis, the model shaped figure that serves as the base of the sketch. The point is not to draw a realistic looking figure, but a blank canvas of sorts on which to display illustrations of dresses, skirts, blouses, accessories and the rest of your creations. Adding color and details like ruffles, seams and buttons helps to bring your ideas to life. Fashion designers have a unique way of drawing. Their models are simple and elegant with most of the detail going into the clothing. Whether it’s for a specific job or just for fun, drawing like a designer can lead to some gorgeous artwork.

Illustrate your original design - Think about what look you’re trying to create, and represent it down to the last detail. If you’re designing a dress, for example, add patterns, ruffles, text, bows, and so on to create a beautiful piece. Focus on the elements of your design that are unique, and include appropriate accessories so that the style you’re going for is clear. If you need some fresh ideas or don't know where to start, look up fashion trends on this app for inspiration.

Elegant Gown Design - Draw a model on the front and the back of a sheet of card or paper. Make lines around the model drawing a design. Let your imagination go wild.Just try put a picture on to your mind first and then try drawing it. Designing is really fun. But too much embellishment is just too much. It's easy to get carried away, even the simplest outfits are the coolest. Getting inspiration is great and helps a lot, but make something you would wear. Draw a similar outfit, but make it more you. Have fun, it's all yours.

Finalize the drawing with shading, ink and color - Use thick black ink or paint on the lines that you want to keep. You can erase the body shaping lines and any stray pencil marks at this point. Finally, carefully color in the clothing using hues you want your designs to have. You can color in the clothing with markers, ink or paint. Mix colors and use a variety of shades to illustrate your designs. Really imagine the design moving towards you under spotlights on a runway when you’re working on shading and texture. Deeper folds in fabric will result in darker shades of the color you're using. Where fabric is hit by the light, the colors should appear lighter. Adding features like hair, sunglasses and makeup is a nice final touch that will make your fashion sketch come to life.

In addition clean up the drawing by erasing all unnecessary lines and circles and continue to add detail, like drawing the hands, shaping the legs and drawing the knees. Once you finish drawing your fashion figure you can either photocopy it, scan it or trace it multiple times to save them for later and keep them as templates to draw designs over them.

As with any creative and artistic craft, fashion illustrations can all be very expressive and different. This is a basic guideline to follow as you begin to learn, once you are comfortable with the basics you can start exploring different styles to discover your own personal aesthetic. It could be something detailed or a more loose and expressive style, as you can see above. In future we will cover how to draw different poses, dressing the fashion figure and rendering clothes. So, if you are interested in this topic, stick around because there’s some good stuff to come.