How to Draw Fashion Hats
Designing is a great way to express the ideas that you have in your mind. Putting things down on paper makes it easy for you to remember. Keep your drawings for a reference in the future. Sketching fashion accessories can be very fun and additive. Start with sketching some fancy hats, and who knows, it might inspire you to sketch more great ideas. The more you sketch, the more the ideas start flowing. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Magazine pages, pictures or hats
- Medium-sized sketchbook
- Drawing pencils (2H, HB, 2B, 4 or 5B)
- Eraser
- Colored pencils (prisma colors are best)
- Thin-tipped black Sharpie marker
Instructions
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Chic Chapeaux
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Observe your hat that you wish to sketch. Use an ad in a magazine to look at to get an idea of the type of hat you wish to draw. Go to a department store and pick up a couple of hats and study them. Observe their texture, look at the shape of the brim, and observe any ornamental details that you like and make note of what you don't like.
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Make some notes in your sketch pad and try to do a "quick study" of what you observed. Do the quick study by using your eyes to fixate on the object. Pick up a 2B pencil and do not look down at the paper hardly at all as you draw. Block in the shapes of the hat any way that feels natural to you. Do this to warm up the drawing part of the brain. Get an idea of how the object feels to you as you translate that onto your paper. Do as many sketches as you like.
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Take your time as you study that hat you are drawing. After you look down at the initial sketches, do a few more quick studies from a couple of different angles. Sketch the hat out on a mannequin's head, sketch it looking at it from the top, and look at from the side on a table. Do not spend too much time focusing on the lines you are making; instead focus on how the shapes feel to you as you put them onto the paper.
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Take home your sketches for the clean-up. Go through a few more fashion magazines and see if you find any more similar designs. Rip out a few pages that closely resemble the hat you saw in the department store and gather the pages you looked at in step one. Sketch the hats you see on the pages and study the curve, angle and placement of every single line.
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Look at your sketches and see the shape and design in them all. Turn to a clean page and use the quick studies as a reference as you draw out the final hat. Use clean, simple lines for the initial design. After you are satisfied with what you have drawn, add some shading to the hat to create depth.
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Use an H pencil for the lightest shadows; HB is a little darker than H yet still light. Use a 2B pencil as the standard, medium, shaded shadow. Use the 2B pencil for the sketch (it's easy to erase; H pencils although light, have a tendency to etch into the paper). Use the 4B or 5B pencil to create darker shadows. Use colored pencils to add some details to your hat, such as flowers or a pin. Outline the final design with a thin-tipped Sharpie marker if you want your design to look more graphic and ready to wear. Keep the sketch loose and free if you want to use it as art. Tighten it up with the marker if you are using it for a fashion design you plan on making in the future---the choice is up to you.
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Tips & Warnings
Drawing is the art of seeing something. Understand how to translate what you see onto paper and then make it your own. Practice as much as you can. Press lightly with the H pencil as you shade.
Do not judge your drawing when you do the quick study. Do not apply words like good, not good, and so on.
Use an emotionless scientific approach to drawing. Act like you are doing a science experiment and are eager to go through the steps in anticipation of the final result.
