Conveying Construction Details

Unit Competencies

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.

Unit Resources and Materials

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.

Zoe Hong Tutorial Video

Texture Project Samples

Nine Texture Samples: rendering a variety of textures using mixed media techniques in the sketchbook

Texture Practice - rendered in mixed media techniques in the sketchbook.

Rendering Textures Project

Unit Summative Assessment

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)