This course provides opportunities for students to: 

• Enhance and refine their own flair for drawing the human body as a fashion figure including proportion and styling. 

• Communicating design through coloured fashion illustration and production drawing 

Develop skills in colouring, decorating & styling garments. 

Topics covered for this 100-hour course 

• Fashion drawing / illustration 

• Portfolio presentation layout and mounting techniques 

• Elements and principles of design 

• Factors affecting design 

• Methods of applying colour & decoration 

• Interpret, modify and use commercial patterns and/or produce simple patterns for a textile item 

This course is very practical based. It will appear on the ROSA as Textiles Technology. 

• Designing own clothes 

• Pattern manipulation 

• Fashion illustrations. 

• Compiling folio of work. 

• Applying various colour, decoration and design to garment 

• Use and follow instructions in a commercial pattern

• Laptop 

• A4 exercise books 

• Pens  

• Highlighters 

• Colouring pencils 

• Pencil

• Ruler 

• Glue 

• Fabrics and notions and patterns for each practical project 

• A3 visual design book, A3 design folder, pencils, ruler, eraser, fabrics, paints, dyes etc. required for practical lessons. 

• Garment Technologist 

• Fashion designers 

• Retail Buyer 

• Retail 

• Fashion Illustrator 

• Merchandisers 

• Fashion Stylist 

• Textile Designer 

• Personal Stylist 

• Fashion Public Relations 

• Fashion Writer 

• Hands on experience/practical skills in garment/textile construction

• Visit to spotlight

• Fashion show excursion– White House

Year 9 – $35.00