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Summary: Check out fashion design samples for including seams into your illustrations. Draw croquis with side and shoulder seams in this free fashion illustration video series with a fashion designer.
Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing construction, etc. Laurel...read more
"And a main seam is going to be in everything you do no matter what it is, whether you can see it or not is going to be the side seam. Side seam like I have drawn here, if your say doing a cat suit, jump suit or a long dress it can go from the arm pit to the ankle. Basically you might not, you're not going to see the the side seam in your fashion figure drawing unless you're doing a 3/4 view. If you're doing a front view or a back view you might see just a tad little bit of it with the way an arm is positioned but it's one of those lines that in a girl it's there and when it comes to rendering your garments and getting them sent to the factory in order to be made you kind of need it and it's a little bit necessary. Depending on the garment is where the side seam can be. If you're doing an A symmetrical garment your side seams might be different on either side but they're always going to be there, even if you take something and turn it and make, say what used to be the side seam, make it go down the front for an alternative kind of look, if you're just playing with draping you're still going to have a side seam."
eHow Article: Fashion Design: Side Seam Examples