Gertie's New Fashion Sketchbook: Indispensable Figure Templates for Body-Positive Design (Gertie's Sewing)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (992 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617691739 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Wonderful Sketch & Design Book" according to ~M. Received this in the mail last week and am very pleased with the purchase. I know several reviewers were not happy with their purchase but I found nothing wrong with the sketch book. The book has a heavy duty spiral binding with hardboard cover and back. The pages are of a nice weight for sketching and erasing and are perforated at the top so you can detach your sketch easily. The author offers a nice introduction with notes on how to sketch your figure along with a brief history on various design era's and pointers on how to ske. Excellent tool for new students learning fashion design. Hulababy I love this book because it's based on the traditional sizing method for full figured women. As a fashion designer myself I find it helpful in helping me learn new method s of sewing. I have always wanted to design clothing using traceable figures. I also love the included patterns.. I have perfect eyesight! It would be no big deal if S I should have heeded the warnings. I have perfect eyesight! It would be no big deal if the images are a little faint.Wrong. The images are far too faint, and they also don't seem to focus on the outline of the bodies, which is what most people use croquis for. These are shaded images with undefined outlines that render this nearly unusable. Really. I was so excited, but I have to admit this is one of my worst purchases in a while.
Gretchen “Gertie” Hirsch is author of Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing and Gertie Sews Vintage Casual. She has a pattern line with Butterick and a fabric line with Fabric Traditions. She teaches sewing around the country, on PBS’s It's Sew Easy, on Craftsy, and on Creativebug.. She is the creator of Gerti
About the AuthorGretchen “Gertie” Hirsch is author of Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing and Gertie Sews Vintage Casual. She has a pattern line with Butterick and a fabric line with Fabric Traditions. She is the creator of Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing. She teaches sewing around the country, on PBS’s It's Sew Easy, on Craftsy, and on Creativebug.
For Gertie’s New Fashion Sketchbook, Gretchen Hirsch teamed up with illustrator Sun Young Park to reinvent traditional figure templates—known as croquis—for the 21st century. In addition, Park has rendered the croquis with multiple tracing lines, allowing the sketcher to follow the lines that most accurately reflect the body shape desired. Instead of the unnaturally skinny, tall, and frequently off-balance croquis the fashion industry has been sketching on for decades, this game-changing alternative presents hundreds of realistically sized and proportioned female forms in balanced, lifelike poses. Also included are an overview of the design and sketching process and a visual history of garment component styles, all to make it easier to create fashion sketches for women of all shapes and sizes.A body-positive sketchpad to help you achieve your fashion design dreams.Loaded with more than 300 figure templates that are proportionally true to the female form and adaptable to different body types, plus helpful sketching tips and resources.A breakthrough for aspiring and experienced designers tired of the industry standard of sketching clothing on female figures that are unnaturally skinny and tall (and sometimes even off-balance).Printed in a special ink that fades away when you photocopy it.