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Artists may use a lightbox as an aid in photo-referencing. Additionally, the use of the grid-method in photo-referencing has gained popularity due to its straightforward nature. The grid-method begins by drawing a grid on the reference photo, and then copying that grid lightly onto the medium of choice that the drawing will be completed on.
Fashion illustration is the art of communicating fashion ideas in a visual form through the use of drawing tools or design-based software programs. It is mainly used by fashion designers to brainstorm their ideas on paper or digitally.
Chiaroscuro – using strong contrasts between light and dark to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body. Gesture Drawing - loose drawing or sketching with the wrists moving, to create a sense of naturalism of the line or shape, as opposed to geometric or mechanical drawing
A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing . The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
Fashion plates should not be confused with costume plates. As outlined by the French social and cultural historian Daniel Roche, there was a point when depictions of costume and of fashion "diverged": [16] the latter came to depict clothes of the present day, while the former came to represent clothes "after the event", that is, after the epoch of the fashionable style.
The figure represents the Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98–117 CE) making offerings to Egyptian Gods, Dendera Temple complex, Egypt. [ 1 ] An artistic canon of body proportions (or aesthetic canon of proportion), in the sphere of visual arts , is a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative ...
A grid applied within an image (instead of a page) using additional angular lines to guide proportions. In graphic design, a grid is a structure (usually two-dimensional) made up of a series of intersecting straight (vertical, horizontal, and angular) or curved lines (grid lines) used to structure content.
Count Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli delle Caminate, [2] professionally known as René Gruau (4 February 1909 – 31 March 2004) [1] was a fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through painting has had a lasting effect on the fashion industry. Because of Gruau's inherent skills and creativity, he contributed to a change ...