Elisabetta Drudi Libri

FASHION PRINTS is a concise step-by-step guide to designing symmetrical and repeat patterns for fashion design. The book contains 12 chapters, each containing a wide range of basic elements needed to create a pattern. It is demonstrated how to make various grids and how to apply the design elements to come to a repeating pattern. The visual approach makes these procedures very easy to understand and helps the reader develop his/her own creative ideas.Furthermore, each chapter gives a number of examples how to apply colour to the patterns. Last but not least, step-by-step drawings are included showing how to render the result on a fashion figure.All design elements are stored on the accompanying free CD-Rom and allow for near limitless variations in creating designs according to your own taste and style.Fashion Prints is a must-have for everybody interested in textile and fashion design.

This new title by best-selling author Elisabetta Drudi offers an inspirational sourcebook of the drawing techniques for fashion details which contains all what is needed to know how to make accurate technical drawings of details as collars, pleats, flounces, gathers, drapes, necklines and so on with 3,000 original fashion drawings throughout.

This book faces the topic of patterns formally in an exhaustive presentation of all kinds of skirts and trousers.

Be inspired by this new, full-colour, redesigned edition featuring a vast range of fashion details for professionals and students This redesigned and full-colour second edition by best-selling author Elisabetta Drudi is an inspirational sourcebook of the drawing techniques required to render fashion details. It contains all the knowledge required to make accurate technical drawings of all imaginable variations of collars, pleats, flounces, gathers, drapes and necklines, and it includes 4,000 original fashion drawings. This title offers an extended, topic-by-topic guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills needed to produce realistic and precise fashion plates that accurately reflect a designer’s creative vision. The volume’s breadth of information and attention to detail make this worldwide bestseller an invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, artists, students and anyone who enjoys fashion design.

This new edition of FIGURE DRAWING FOR FASHION DESIGN ¿ fully revised, updated and expanded ¿ offers a concise, topic by topic guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills of visualising ideas and concepts in costume and fashion design, concentrating on the female form.

What shawls, (head) scarves, capes, sarongs and pareos all have in common is that they consist of one piece of fabric. However, they differ enormously in size and shape and how they are wrapped and tied. WRAP & DRAPE FASHION provides a comprehensive course in designing and drawing these popular fashion items.

Poses, colours and colour combinations, watercolour techniques and tools. Step-by-step explanation of free-hand drawing techniques.

FIGURE DRAWING FOR MEN'S FASHION focuses on the male form in fashion design. It offers a concise, topic-by-topic guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills needed to produce realistic and precise fashion plates that accurately reflect a designer¿s creative vision. The authors, Elizabetta Drudi and Tiziana Paci, have decades of experience in the fashion industry and have created an invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, and artists. The breadth of information and attention to detail make this title ideal for students, professionals, and anyone who enjoys fashion design.