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Summary: No fashion sketch is complete without a clean, retraced outline; learn how to draw fashion sketches in this free video on fashion design and illustration.
Lauren Bradley is a professional fashion designer with many years of experience in various parts of the fashion industry.read more
"Okay now we have one in tracing paper and one which is our original and we can draw forever now because what we do is we just turn her over and we are going to retrace on the opposite side our original lines. We don't really want to press too hard because what will happen if we press too hard is we'll making indentation on the paper and then we will be bound to like erase it, it just depends on how perfectionist you want to get, you know. So as you can see, I'm getting like a carbon transfer. But you don't want to press too late or you won't get anything. In this way I can just keep repeating this over and over and over. If I'm trying to come up with a design, I can just think about that and I don't have to think about drawing the person anymore. Maybe I just didn't like the calculating drawing thing in school and I figure out my way around it. And this is actually a really good way for people who just aren't good, don't have good drawing skills to compensate. I just sometimes don't like to go in that side of my brain. I just like to get it done and this is kind of of a forte quickness. So now I have a transfer."
eHow Article: Retracing Fashion Sketches