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Summary: How to draw in color for fashion illustration; get professional tips and advice on how to begin a career as a fashion illustrator in this free fashion video.
David A. Clemen has a BFA in Fashion Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and a one year Graphic Design degree from the Art Institute of Atlanta. He is qualified in many...read more
"Hi, I'm David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village. Today on the show we are going to do fashion illustration. OK, now that we have this laid out and we have it pretty much where we want it, we need to add some color and give it some life. So, I'm going to take this burnt sienna brown and kinds of just come in and give her skin tone. She is suntanned, she is in here. I can just come in. I don't have to put the color everywhere. But maybe she's from Brazil, but she is very, very tan. Brazil or Rio de Janero. Barcelona. Then just need to indicate with the color in there. Also you only need to use a few colors. I am going to come in with the purple and just bring this jacket to life. I'm going to just come in here, do this. Pow, pow, pow. I don't have to color everything all I got to do is indicate that the jacket is purple. Then I am giving it life, and the jacket comes here like this. And so her shoes, her roller skating high heels that are ten inches tall are also purple. Maybe, maybe the sun rays are purple on this day. Just because it works with the jacket and the roller skating high heels. OK, a purple sun, that's a new one but not in fashion. So can add color there and then I can even go as far as making some of her streaks purple. Because it just looks better. And this marker smells like grape also so that's kind of fun. And there you have it."
eHow Article: Adding Color to Fashion Illustrations