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Good Pencil Crayons to Sketch Fashion With?
I always used to sketch clothes I'm not the best but good enough, now I'm actually starting to take it seriously because I just want there to be one thing that I'm really good at and I want that to be fashion I can already sew so that is a non-issue but I want to know what types of pens, markers and pencil crayons are best for colouring your designs to give the best textures and colours.
Prismacolor professional series are the best coloured pencils you can buy. I also use Staedler-Mars aquarelle pencils from Germany. They make a special type of pencil crayon that can be softened with a paintbrush and water, like watercolour in a pencil. For metallic details I use Winsor and Newton's designer's gouache paint in gold, silver and copper. When I want a brilliant saturated base colour I will use designer's gouache and then use coloured pencils over the gouache. If there's detailed beading or embellishment I will emphasize it with a bit of black ink so the detail stands out.
For some special designs where the client wants a finished sketch along with the dress I often combine watercolour, coloured pencil and pen and ink so they have a picture suitable for framing if they wish. On some of your sketches you might want to add fabric swatches, glue on beads, sequins or scraps of lace. You can also use fine tracing paper and rub over textured fabrics, laces, or anything with a texture or pattern and cut and past that onto your sketches. Some designer's sketches are collages of of fabrics, photos, tracings and the actual design of the dress itself.
Each designer is different when it comes to the creative part of design. The sketches of some resemble line drawings with no colour, some are modern art collages, some look like paintings suitable for framing, some look like technical drawings. The important part of each sketch, no matter what they are worked in and no matter what the level of detail is that they accurately convey your idea and your design in a way that others can understand it and in a way you can turn the idea into a finished garment.
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