drawing flats with fashion croquis

What is Fashion Croquios?

The term "croquis" can have various meanings in different fields (in architecture or clothing design); it can refer to a "sketch" or quick drawing, or (in clothing design) it can mean a figure template for a fashion drawing. When the term "croquis" stands for a figure template, it usually means a stylized, simplified basis of a figure to draw over it (either directly on the figure or using the figure as an underdrawing with tracing paper or a lightbox). This text defines croquis as a figure template for fashion drawing.

It is important to remember that fashion drawing for the fashion industry requires good, correct proportions and well-posed croquis (a figure template). You can create fashion croquis yourself, use "pre-designed" fashion croquis designed and preprinted by professionals, or modify croquis. Whether you use a croquis intended for you or create one yourself, be sure that the fashion croquis you select is correct. All flaws of a croquis will be transferred into your drawings, makFashion drawings come in different types, such as those for showing designs in pictures (illustration) and others for showing them flat without much detail (flats). Each type needs its special croquis, like a blueprint for drawing. You can't use the croquis made to draw detailed fashion illustrations for the flat drawings without errors and inaccuracies.ing it impossible to create a good illustration with a bad croquis.

Fashion drawings come in different types, such as those for showing designs in pictures (illustration) and others for showing them flat without much detail (flats). Each type needs its special croquis, like a blueprint for drawing. You can't use the croquis made to draw detailed fashion illustrations for the flat drawings without errors and inaccuracies.

Croquis for flats ( fashion tehcncal drawing).

A croquis for flats is a simplified human figure, more like a schematic or a figure scheme, rather than a detailed figure drawing.

• Croquis for flats are typically offered only in static (still) poses to make it easy to depict the actual garment in its static position.
• Croquis for flats must be true to actual body anatomy with no "beautification," stylization, or artistic interpretations. That is why croquis for flats appear more "bulky" and less "elegant" than croquis for fashion illustration; they must faithfully represent anatomy.
• Croquis for flats must include all technical lines depicted on a fashion figure (such as the princess line, bust line, hip line, and waistline) because the purpose of such technical drawing is to depict the actual garment with all seams and stitches clearly illustrated in the flat illustration.

Croquis for fashion illustration

Croquis for fashion illustration can come in a greater variety with more variables than croquis for flats. Fashion illustration figure templates typically feature a range of poses; some croquis means to depict clothing in movement, or a sense of light movement can help illustrate the clothing style.

• Croquis for fashion illustration may have slightly stylized proportions to depict a fashion style better, or they could be very minimalistic and abstract. To varying degrees, exaggerated, abstract figure drawing templates can be beneficial for concept drawing, for example. Even the "classic" 9-head-tall fashion figure is, strictly speaking, a traditional stylization and an industry convention rather than realistic proportions (since the average natural proportion of a female body is closer to an 8-head-tall figure).
• Croquis for fashion illustration may include faces and hairstyles added to the figure since the final product of fashion illustration often requires depicting the style and type of prospective customer.
• Croquis for fashion illustration should include all or some technical lines (such as the waistline, hip line, and balance line), but this is not a condition for proper croquis as it is for croquis for flats. Construction and technical lines are an excellent addition but not a requirement. Other fashion-related lines, such as the princess line, could be included in croquis for fashion illustration.

Each type of fashion drawing requires its type of croquis. There is a croquis for illustration and another for flats, which are NOT interchangeable. It is impossible to use (even a very good) croquis for fashion illustration for flats with good results.