Advanced Fashion Drawing: Lifestyle Illustration

Ein tolles Buch. Alles sehr gut erklärt und mit Beispielen veranschaulicht. Es macht richtig Spaß sich durch die Anleitungen zu lesen. Das Buch ist wirklich für Advanced Zeichner gut geeignet.

A really useful step-by-step manual which guides you starting from the beginning and gives you technique! It’s like the master is sharing his secrets and makes you develop your own inconfundible syle!

Some drawings with colors for my satisfaction, otherwise not what I wanted. When you buy books online you do not have a choice to look through the book therefore I have bought books not to my satisfaction

The book, and its cover was good. Good for learning how to draw, step by step. Nice tutorial that makes it easy

I am an amateur fashion artist. I have no desire to do design – I have for whatever reason gravitated to liking to draw fashion (my wife probably would say it’s because it’s permission to draw women all day :)).

And I really love Donovan’s work plus his instruction is very good. It goes beyond the traditional – draw 8 heads and measure – instead use the “balance method”. And he shows you how to expand into even more impressionistic styles.

There is much to learn in this book by Bil Donovan. He is a tremendous talent. I’ve been a fan of his illustrations for years.
His book is packed with images at the edge – illustrations like Rachel Ann Linday’s fantastical “continuous line drawing” are not to be missed.
And the exercises and multimedia techniques will appeal to artists, illustrators as well as fashion designers. One of my favorites is the chapter on media, where we see the same image repeated on various papers, using different mediums including digital.
My only quibble, and it is minor, is despite an abundance of brilliant, fresh imagery, I also found safe, old-school figures. The cover, as example. At first glance it’s another ho-hum stereotypical runway mannequin. Look a tad closer and marvel at the technique in line and body.
I was hoping for an even larger ratio of high-risk, underground imagery – the kind found in Laird Borrelli’s “Fashion Illustration Next”.
Nonetheless, there is plenty of greatness in “Advanced Fashion Drawing.” The book is an achievement and a classic. It should be a staple for aspiring illustrators for many years to come.