Gertie's New Fashion Sketchbook: Indispensable Figure Templates for Body-Positive Design
Description
Being able to sketch is an essential part of fashion design and sewing; a good sketch shows the designer/sewist how a garment’s proportion, style lines, and colours will work on the body. Most designers sketch their designs on top of “croquis,” or pre- rinted body outlines. However, until now, the standard croquis for women have shown elongated, stick-thin, unnaturally proportioned, and off-balance bodies. In Gertie's New Fashion Sketchbook, loved house author and fashion-sewing celebrity Gretchen Hirsch teams up with illustrator Sun Young Park to reinvent the traditional croquis for the 21st century, with hundreds of croquis depicting realistically sized and proportioned body shapes in balanced, life-like poses. Also included are an overview of the design and sketching process and a visual history of garment component styles to empower designers/sewists to create sketches for ashion that will be flattering for women of all shapes and sizes.
Specifications
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,598,546 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,845 in Figure Drawing Guides #2,626 in Illustration and Graphic Design #3,968 in Fashion Craft |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 250 Reviews |
Reviews
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A game changer
I was very sceptical about this book after reading some reviews but I do pleased with itI wanted to sketch out designs but I can't draw accurate body shapes , this book takes that step awayI love the fact that the body shapes are a lot more realistic than most "croquis" I have seenYes the designs are feint but it's the clothes you want to see , I don't have a problem seeing the in normal daylight at allThere's also some useful information at the front tooAll in all I can't recommend It enough, I have only just started to make clothesI don't use patterns so I love to sketch my ideas out , this book has given me the confidence to do so
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Great sketchbok
A wonderful sketchbook with info on why it was created and helpful tips on how to draw certain elements of fabric.The outlines are very faint but I found this great for changing some bodies and allowed the outfits to stand out.
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Really great, sturdy and the pages are perfectly muted to ...
Really great, sturdy and the pages are perfectly muted to allow the design to be the star of the book. Will certainly buy again.
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Good
It's a good sketch pad the illustrations are very light. I like the break down of explaining the eras of dress throughout the years aswell. I would recommed ..
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Lovely item
Ignore the other reviews about the body shapes not being right. Sure they're not skinny with long legs but they're certainly more akin to my shape!
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Three Stars
Body shapes very stumpy
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Great item
Great item, for my daughter to pursue her career choice
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Queen Gertie!
Love Gertie & her attitude towards shape. I use this with Textiles students to help promote a healthy body image.
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