Design costumes featuring technical details like closures, stitching, and seam placement
Draw and render effectively weight, drape, and texture in several different fabrics using watercolor, ink, gouache, pencil, and a variety of other media.
Croquis
Quick Indications of Folds
T-Shirt Dress: Sketching Basic Garments on the Figure (Bryant p. 225-227)
Drawing a Shirtdress/Basic Pants (Bryant p. 230-232)
Circluar Flounces (Bryant p. 268)
Gathering & Ruching (Bryant p. 264-265)
Circular Flounces
Pleats
Light & Fabric Swatches - Select 20-25 different fabrics from the classroom, and sort them into 4 categories - high reflection, medium reflection, high absorption, and transmission. Identify each by fiber and type.
Design a pair of Jeans - any style, with texture, and technical details in your sketchbook.
Texture Practice - rendered in mixed media techniques in the sketchbook.
Light & Fabric Swatches
Nine Texture Samples
Full color finished rendering: Design an outfit that features 5 different fabric and material textures, rendered in full color.
Full assignment sheet: Texture Mixed Media Design Project - design an outfit on a 8 head figure that uses five distinct textures rendered in color.
Costume Design Rendering Checklist for Self Evaluation (general - not project specific)