The teaching of fashion drawing and illustration in the practice of extension

Abstract

The design is of great importance for the fashion professional, especially the one who develops products. However, the realization of professional drawings requires mastery of techniques that facilitate the understanding of the piece created. Objectives of the extension course are to teach the traditional techniques of drawing and illustration, and also to exercise the imaginative capacity, of abstraction and visual memory. The methodology adopted in the course was divided into three stages, in which theoretical classes - practical on drawings and illustration of fashion. The results obtained in the first stage were diagnosed, in which errors of the design (50%), creation of the trait (75%), shading (90%), errors in body shape (75%) and disproportion of the figure (100%). In the second stage the results obtained were improvement in the trace, in the shading and exact proportion of the human body, obeying the human grid of 8 heads and socks. In the last step, significant results were obtained on the manipulation of the techniques of color application, working the shading, proportion and different methods of illustration. With this, it is concluded that the students who participated in all the stages of the course obtained better performances and professional designs, that in the future will facilitate the entry into the job market.