Procreate Tutorial: How to Draw a Croquis on Your iPad

Learn how to create fashion sketches using body proportion and clothing techniques, with Carol Gomide

Fashion unites a vast range of professions and combines art with history to form unique designs. Illustration is the medium through which new styles emerge from your imagination and become real.

Learning to illustrate so you can create a women’s fashion collection by combining digital and manual design techniques, is a great way to allow your designs to reach thousands of people.

Fashion illustrator Carol Gomide (@carolinepgomide) is passionate about this creative industry and created her Depois das Quatro brand to focus on styles by famous designers.

In this tutorial, Carol teaches you how to create a croquis using wardrobe and body proportion techniques. Her simple tips are easy to achieve. Don’t miss it!

Start by creating a new file in Procreate and dividing the page into 9 sections. Always begin your croquis with the head, which should be looking straight at you, and positioned between lines 0 and 1 on your scale.

Now you’re ready to define the shoulder line in a diagonal, to give your sketch movement. You can use a straighter line, depending on the effect you’re trying to convey.

Draw a diagonal along line 3 to denote the waist. Then add another, parallel line for the hips.

Mark the knees and ankles using little circles, and unite them with a straight line to create the first leg.

Draw the second leg diagonally behind the first to provide movement and elegance.

Create circles for the shoulders and elbows and place one arm behind the torso to maintain movement. The second arm goes in front and has a straighter position.

When you finish these steps, delete all the inside inside your croquis. Now start designing the wardrobe.

Add the chest and hair, remember this step will help you to visualize your creation.

Create a new layer for the clothing and let your creativity run wild! You can use a photo to help you.

Add lines that show how the fabric hangs, make it easier to add shadow and provide a natural effect.

Switch from the brush to the fountain pen tool and draw around the outline in black, ideally using a thicker line than the one you used to create your sketch. This outline provides greater emphasis and refines your croquis.

Delete all the pencil marks to leave nothing but the outline layer.

Love this tutorial? If you want to learn how to give your women’s fashion collection shape, color and texture by combining manual and digital techniques, don’t miss Carol’s online course: Fashion Sketch Illustration.

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