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Drawing People in Cute Outfits Inspired by Fashion Illustration

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Learn to draw people in outfits using simple shapes.

Drawing characters in cool outfits is always fun! It can add a lot of personality and stories to your illustrations.

If you want to feel more comfortable drawing stylized characters in clothes inspired by fashion or your imagination, this class is for you!

In this class, we will go on a journey of designing stylized characters in outfits using simple shapes, fun colors, textures, and details. So you get more comfortable and have a strong foundation when drawing characters inspired by fashion trends and your own imagination.

We will practice with fun exercises to make the whole experience more delightful!

You will learn:

  • How to simplify the shapes, fabrics, folds, and shadows, so you create cool outfits that will make your characters stand out
  • About proportions, silhouettes, and character poses 
  • Techniques of how you can work with real-life references and translate them into your stylized character design

You will gain solid skills for developing your character design style further.

By the end of the class, you will make one or more character fashion illustrations. And you will have many ideas for even more fashion designs, expressing your fashion design sense and ideas!

To help you with the exercises, you will get access to the following freebies:

  • Templates with references to drawing fabrics and posing the characters
  • Cheat sheet for character proportions
  • Figure template to style your characters
  • And a bunch of photo references to prompt your imagination

I will be using Procreate, but feel free to use any other drawing software or medium you prefer. 

Let’s get started with expanding your horizons and drawing awesome characters!

See you in the class!

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Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • About the Class
  • Hanging Fabrics
  • Shadows on the Trousers
  • Practice 1: Simplify the Folds
  • Practice 2: Style the Shadows
  • Practice 3: Sleeve
  • Practice 4: Stylize the Sleeve
  • Silhouettes
  • Proportions
  • Poses and Proportions
  • Proportions and Styling
  • Inspiration
  • Setting up
  • Character Sketch
  • Color Blocking
  • Texture and Adjustments
  • Details and Effects
  • Bonus: Extra Character
  • How Did It Go?

Taught by

Iva Mikles

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