Fashion designers throughout the ages have kept fashion sketchbooks to record ideas and inspirations. Artists and designers alike keep an ongoing journal to practice their drawing skills, develop ideas and new lines of fashion, and show potential clients and employers sketches behind the work.
Fashion students will need a sketchbook that they can use to sketch and draw in daily. A variety of sketchbooks are available at art supply stores and online. Some sketchbooks have the fashion figure already drawn very lightly on the page which saves the fashion designer a lot of time. Below are a list of specialty sketchbooks as well as basic sketchbooks you will find online or at a store near you.
Sketchbook Inspiration Samples
Sketchbook Types
Fashionary sketchbooks are the very best in fashion sketchbooks and
suited for the serious fashion design student. The book includes
pages of handy reference charts, pattern and fabrics types,
sample composition flats, and lightly printed figures to draw designs on.
Fashion Sketpad A great tool for aspiring fashion designers who love to sketch
clothes but don’t have the skills to draw proportional figures, the skecthpad
is filled with 420 figure templates and 20 different poses.
Fashion Design Workshop offers budding artists the perfect introduction to the fundamentals of fashion figure drawing. Step-by-step projects cover a range of looks—from sophisticated and elegant to cool and casual. The book also contains tips on accessorizing with purses,
shoes, hats, and more.
