Creative Fashion Illustration Techniques
Drawing the Face
A course by Connie Lim , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Drawing the Face
Overview
“The fashion face is an important element in fashion illustration as it can help express the mood, feeling, and character wearing the garment. We can think of the expressions such as happy, sad, alluring, longing, smiley, etc. Since we are starting fresh, I will show you the basic front face and a guideline of the proportions so if you are lost, you can refer your drawing back to them. ”
In this video lesson Connie Lim addresses the topic: Drawing the Face, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Fashion Illustration Techniques. Learn how to combine traditional drawing and collage techniques to create a dynamic fashion illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“The fashion face is an important element in fashion illustration as it can help convey the mood, the feeling and the character that's wearing the garment. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to draw the basic front face. You can always refer back to this as a guide if you feel like you're lost or your drawing is a bit off. So now I'm going to show you the proportions of the front face. I'm going to first use my light color because that's my lane. And I like to use a light color because if you mess up, you can always fix it with a darker color later on. So first, let's start with the c...”
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Course summary for: Creative Fashion Illustration Techniques
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Collage, Traditional illustration

Connie Lim
A course by Connie Lim
Connie Lim is a professional illustrator and designer from Los Angeles, California. She has trained at prestigious universities including the Art Center College of Art and Design Pasadena (Illustration, 2008) and UAL’s Central Saint Martins in London (Fashion Design with Marketing, 2013). As an artist specializing in fashion, she merges her love of illustration and fashion design to create unique and striking images with a strong personal vision.
Her clients include Guerlain, Bulgari, Louboutin, Bielo, and Revlon. Her work has been featured in books like Martin Dawber’s Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration, Beautiful by Gestalten, and Taschen’s The Illustrator: 100 Best from Around the World.
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