Beginners of fashion design first need a big framework to avoid falling into a small detail, and learning for a long time is not comprehensive. Let me introduce the most basic things to learn first. Only after completing the whole process below can we enter the door of fashion design.
Learning roadmap 1:? Clothing design classification
1, divided by design fabrics: woven and knitted. Generally speaking, the design we mentioned is based on woven fabrics. Knitted fabric design is a major independent of woven design.
2. According to the employment direction, it can be roughly divided into three categories: clothing design, clothing engineering and other related industries.
3. Clothing design is divided into: women's design, men's design, children's design, wedding dress design, jewelry design, pattern design, etc.
4. Clothing engineering is divided into: pattern design, three-dimensional cutting, etc.
5. Other related topics include: fashion buyers, trend prediction direction, and information collection.
Learning Roadmap II: Four Learning Methods of Fashion Design
Death learning method 1: simple-minded fever type?
Many people think that fashion design is very simple, so they can read books by themselves, but the results seem easy to understand. When it comes to actual operation, there is no way to start, and I always feel that I can't do it.
Method 2 of learning death: Quit after learning difficulties.
Some people think that fashion design is very difficult, and it is difficult to learn painting without drawing foundation, and so on. I gave up after studying for a while, because my head was big and my neck was thick, and I didn't want to learn.
Learn to die 3: Dig your own hole and jump.
There are also some friends who pieced together a lot of messy old video tutorials from the Internet. They study hard every day, and as a result, many things they learn are out of date, and finally they can only scold their mother.
Learn to die 4: self-righteous type
There are also some friends who think that the technical level of fashion design is awesome, but what they have designed is not recognized by everyone and can only be angry. In fact, you only know the "technique" level, not the "Tao" level, so what you make is tangible and lifeless.
Learning roadmap 3: You are all wrong. In fact, fashion design should be learned like this.
As an experienced person, I have experienced everything you want to do. Took a lot of detours, spent a lot of cost, spent a lot of time to experience. What I can do in three months took me four or five years to do. At that time, I thought that if someone took me on the road of learning fashion design, I wouldn't have to study so hard. Fortunately, so many obstacles have come. Now my own clothing design strength and strength.
At the same time, I also know many experts in this industry. Over the years, I have accumulated a variety of high-quality learning resources. It would be a real waste if I didn't share them with you. I have been thinking about how to help students who are new to fashion design get great promotion in the shortest time and avoid detours. Fortunately, I found a way. This is an Internet age. I registered a special class online and invited many excellent teachers from all over the country to share it live for free every day. They all shared a whole set of knowledge about the fashion design system, and they would never talk nonsense. They will also share the latest fashion design concepts and trends every day.
If you want to listen to the live class, you can add my tick number: the number at the beginning is: 139, the number in the middle is: 3086, and the number at the end is: 455. By combining them in order, we can find the palace of fashion design learning. You don't have to pay any fees. You just need to find the right person yourself, and you can listen to it every day when you come.
If you are trained systematically, you won't go too badly in the future. But if you think you will, you may enter the professional field and no one will give you professional training. The road you take will be bumpy. Of course, there are many such designers in China, because the clothing education in China is gradually improving, and there are too few professional schools. This kind of designer may not have no market.
But doing things right from the beginning will save a lot of effort. If you do something wrong, it will be difficult to correct it later. Especially some conceptual and basic concepts.
Just like learning English, I didn't learn the phonetic symbols well at first, but I could only spell in Chinese, and then I could only speak Chinglish.
Learning roadmap 4:? Clothing painting learning
First of all, the most basic thing to learn fashion design is to learn to draw fashion renderings. The purpose of clothing renderings is to draw the ideas in your mind before making clothes, as a preview and guidance when making clothes yourself. You can draw a preliminary clothing effect picture, and then add some details in the process of vertical cutting. Or draw all the details to be presented, and when doing so, you can completely follow the renderings.
First of all, to learn to draw a human body, you need to learn people who stand still and people who are slightly dynamic. Basically, these two kinds of human bodies are enough during the basic study. If you still want to design men's wear, you can also learn how to draw a man's body. The difference between male body and female body is that the muscle lines of limbs and face are thicker; In contrast, women's pelvis is prominent and men's lines are inverted triangles.
Then you need to learn how to draw different types of clothes, fabrics and accessories. Among them, the coloring skills, including how to use colored pens and markers, can be taught by buying some painting tutorials for clothing renderings, or watching online videos for self-study. There are also my own collection of teaching materials for you to download.
Different types of clothing: dresses, tops, coats, short skirts, jeans, jackets, suits, evening dresses and so on. . . In a word, you should learn to draw any kind of clothes.
Different fabrics: knitted fabrics, transparent gauze skirts, leather fabrics, metal fabrics, waterproof fabrics, etc. You must learn. In addition, if you need to draw a well-matched overall shape, you need to learn to draw accessories and hairstyles: bags, jewelry necklaces, shoes and so on.
Because painting needs long-term practice to practice well, beginners can continue to learn plate making and theory while practicing painting. After hand-drawing practice, you can also draw clothing renderings with AI and PS, which will be much faster.
Related teaching materials:
Marking techniques of clothing renderings
Creative sketch online video tutorial?
"PS Clothing Computer Rendering Video Course"
Fashion illustration skills: comprehensive training of hand-drawn expression skills
Detailed explanation of hand-painted steps of complete picture book clothing design
Fast expression technology of clothing renderings
A complete collection of human data of fashion illustrations
Learning roadmap 5:? Matching of clothing colors
A very important part of fashion design is the choice of color. From the basic elements of color (hue, lightness and purity) to the theoretical choice of triangle or quadrilateral color matching on the color ring. , is the basic knowledge to learn. On this basis, we also need to pay attention to what is the annual and quarterly trend color. Pantone, for example, publishes the annual trend color every year.
Related teaching materials:
Color Composition _ Art Design Textbook, Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House
Everyone's coloring book: the basis of designing color matching
American color basic textbook
Japanese graphic designer's color design reference manual
Principles and skills of color matching
Novice color matching collection: comprehensive color matching technology
Color design principle
Learning roadmap 6? Clothing structure
You need to learn the basic clothing structure and draw the correct clothing process diagram, so that when you show your design to the clothes maker, the clothes maker can correctly understand the structure of your clothes. Clothing process drawing is equivalent to the construction drawing in architectural design, and its purpose is to accurately express all the details of clothing and facilitate the construction of clothing manufacturers. There is still a lot of information to be marked on the professional clothing design list.
Related teaching materials:
Clothing structure and technology
Women's fashion books
Learning Roadmap 7: Understanding the History of Clothing
Learn the history and basic theory of clothing and the basic design principles.
History of Eastern and Western Costumes: Understanding the silhouette, pattern and structure of Eastern and Western Costumes in different periods from ancient times to modern times, as well as understanding the corresponding historical background, can give designers more inspiration and help them select the required elements more accurately.
Related teaching materials:
History of western clothing
Classic illustrations of the general history of western clothing
Classic illustrations of western women's clothing history in the 20th century.
Wang Shouzhi World Fashion History
Fashion travel
Red Versace and Grey Armani
Learn roadmap 8: basic knowledge of clothing fabrics
Sometimes our inspiration comes from fabrics, and we even transform fabrics according to the characteristics of different fabrics, so we need to know about fabrics and textiles.
The most important part of the designer's knowledge module needs a lot of practical experience to understand the performance and ability of fabrics.
In fact, this part is also introduced in detail in the book Introduction to Clothing Science, so I won't repeat it here. The only thing to add is that accessories are a relatively neglected link in China. In fact, accessories are the support of a dress, which is equally important. Domestic clothing also pays little attention to these. If you are interested, you can read the book "Complete Collection of Clothing Accessories". While watching, it is best to find the true feelings of the corresponding materials in the noodle and accessory market. The best way is to go to the clothing market for a lot of contact analysis-the clothing market here refers to the brand and famous products market, and the wholesale market can be ignored.
Related teaching materials:
Textile History Shantou University Press
Clothing surface accessories and clothing
Performance design of clothing fabrics
Learning Roadmap 9: Measuring Physical Knowledge
Some students also asked me about measuring knowledge. . . It is a very fine and scientific category, which aims to enable designers to accurately calculate the human body and infer the size and specifications of clothing. If you have strict requirements on your own typesetting, it is very useful to learn a little measurement. But to be honest, most of the measurements are used in the fields of dress customization, so there is no need to go too far in the self-study stage.
Learning Roadmap X: Fashion Design Concept
Then it comes to the main event, the main body of fashion design-design method and production method. Design methods are mainly divided into vertical cutting and plane plate making. Vertical cutting is suitable for designing personalized clothing, and flat production is suitable for clothing that has been standardized and only needs a little modification.
There are many books about design, so I won't introduce them. Books are all the same, only basic concepts can be learned. The book "Introduction to Fashion Science" mentioned earlier contains the basic methods of fashion design. On the basis of this theory, the best way is to draw while watching. Maybe you will feel that if you say it, you will not say it.
You can start by controlling a piece of clothing. You can refer to such a step: first find a brand, collect the outline of the brand, then find the source of inspiration according to the brand style-a picture, put forward the elements you want in the picture, and design with the collected outline.
What you need to learn in plane plate making is: plate making of different kinds of clothes such as tops, sleeves, dresses, trousers and skirts. In addition, in the basic version, we should also learn the changes of darts.
Related teaching materials:
Fashion modeling technology 1, 2, 3
Fashion modeling theory
Wei, clothing pattern scaling technology
Practical handbook of sleeve, top, bottom and collar garment cutting
Garment industry plate making
Three-dimensional clipping
Stereo tailoring is a working method/process of designing and making clothes, not design. The method is to cut and sew cloth directly on the platform and make a complete dress at a time. General designers design clothes from scratch, all of which are designed by three-dimensional cutting.
Related teaching materials:
Three-dimensional cutting training textbook
Three-dimensional tailoring of famous fashion
Three-dimensional tailoring of European fashion
Fashion design and three-dimensional modeling
While learning the above skills, sewing should make a complete and correct set of clothes while learning, so as to really collude with the whole fashion design process! Learn to make shirts, skirts, dresses and pants first.
Related teaching materials:
Clothing pattern and clothing technology
Fashion sewing
XI learning roadmap: the cultivation of modeling ability
Clothing modeling ability is a significant difference compared with other design industries, and cultivating this ability is very beneficial to your self-study.
I think the first thing to be clear is a theme-clothing is three-dimensional, and it is to be worn on people after all, in order to accomplish a certain mission. Although we may not be fashion designers now, and we don't have realistic production tasks, our study should be guided by this. In the process of design, always consider whether my dress has handled all the details in place, whether it can help customers shape a suitable image and so on. This should be a good mapping of modeling ability.
When it comes to how to cultivate this ability, I suggest that you must think more and think more, and never build a car behind closed doors, thinking that the clothes I created by myself are the most unique. Instead, we should pay close attention to the trends of various brands, shows and designers, so as to keep up with the trend and find the feeling.
On the other hand, contact with other arts. For the clothing industry, it is not difficult to lay a good foundation. You just need to work hard step by step. But once you need to cultivate your own ability, especially the ability to explore inspiration and modeling, it is not feasible not to contact with design knowledge in other fields. With sufficient reserves, we can draw inferences and create a style.
In addition, I think the modeling ability should also include the element of "collocation". When designing clothes, we should not only do well the clothes themselves, but also consider whether the customers are well dressed. When you want to draw renderings, film pasting, or even physical catwalks, this problem will be highlighted and we should pay full attention to it.
Then there is the focus of learning: practice design repeatedly without interruption. This is a focused exercise. Give yourself a theme and clothing category, with three to five sets of series design as the theme. (For example: impression of the city, three sets of women's ready-to-wear clothes) You can start with a simple pencil draft design, then slowly increase it to the color effect diagram, and then to the electronic draft. At this time, it is suggested that beginners can find a senior majoring in clothing, constantly let others point out your shortcomings, and then improve ~ Yes, clothing learning is such a boring process. You must not teach yourself behind closed doors, constantly learn excellent works, constantly compare and find your own shortcomings, and then constantly overthrow and rebuild. First of all, don't be afraid of your poor design or your hands being tied. Bold painting is necessary, and sometimes the design angle of beginners is more interesting. It is suggested that domestic beginners can participate in some design competitions if they have a certain foundation. The competition threshold of domestic clothing is relatively low, so you can actively sign up for it. At first, they took the shortlisted renderings as their goal, and then made a series of complete works as their goal, and worked hard bit by bit. This will be a good way to motivate yourself to make progress. I believe you will fall in love with clothes when you see the work you put your heart and soul into when you walk on the catwalk. But I want to remind you that when you take part in many costume competitions, don't lose yourself, don't compare for the sake of comparison, and remember that competitions are only for improving yourself. )