![]() ![]() You have to learn how to draw fashion figures, faces, clothing, and accessories. Fashion drawing is the foundation of fashion illustration, and it comes in any fashion illustration. Well, the very first skill is fashion drawing. So what skills should you nurture? 1 | Fashion Drawing Your skills are the foundation of your style, your career and your business they make your talent pop up, and they are the first thing potential clients see they are looking for your skills first thing. We’ll cover the 3 steps in the series, and for this post we’ll start with the step number 1: nurturing your skills.īefore anything else you have to learn, practice and experiment with your skills, so you nurture them until you feel confident about them. ![]() The 3 steps to becoming a fashion illustrator are: But in this video and in this series we’re going to focus on fashion illustration only, so let’s begin. These phases are what I call in my course become a profitable fashion creative, the 3 pillars of success, and they are basically the same whether you want to become a fashion illustrator, fashion designer or a surface pattern designer. The 3 major steps to become a fashion illustrator Well, after some time designing and illustrating, I started teaching and mentoring, and through all my years of experience (8 years as a fashion creative and 4 years teaching and mentoring), I found out that there are 3 major steps or phases towards becoming a fashion illustrator. But in summary, that’s how I started as a fashion designer and as a fashion illustrator. It was super fun because it was all about illustrating a handbag’s collection from a brand in Dubai, and now I’m about to start a Master Degree in fashion next year (I’m super excited about it!). Then, new projects came and all kinds of different clients, and after a couple of months I got my first fashion illustration project. Besides, the samples ended in a show in Milan, so it was so super fun. It was about designing and creating the samples of a footwear collection for women, and it was so great because I got involved in the whole process from A to Z. And after a couple of weeks, I got an invitation to a footwear design project, and I said yes. So, one day I was searching the web, and I found a blog or an article about freelancing, then I said, “hey, I could become a freelance fashion illustrator and work on my own terms, on my own schedule, and make money while I’m still in college.” That’s what I did I built a little portfolio and a web page, and then I started to apply to a lot of jobs and fashion illustration projects. But then, as new orders began to come, it started to be kind of impossible for me to keep going with the business, especially because the time and money investments were higher than the revenue I was having. Then more friends started to ask for the same, and also friends of friends, so that’s how I started my first fashion business it was a handbag business. ![]() So, I started creating my own handbags, and one day one friend told me, “hey, could you make a bag for me, design it, sew it, and all that is needed?”, and I said, “of course, yeah.” I was feeling kind of frustrated because I loved fashion and I was creating other kind of products in school. Well, my fashion journey started when I was studying industrial design in college. ![]()
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