Author : Jamie Aldaya Apparel Development Consulting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (874 download)
Book Synopsis A Bullet Sketchbook | FASHION TEMPLATE | White Magic by : Jamie Aldaya Apparel Development Consulting
Download or read book A Bullet Sketchbook | FASHION TEMPLATE | White Magic written by Jamie Aldaya Apparel Development Consulting and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's almost Halloween! Are you a designer, design student, or considering a career in fashion? Do you love Halloween? Our Halloween collection will help get you ready. Award-winning apparel developer, Jamie Makani Aldaya, shares industry best practices in these smaller versions of the Basic books. These books familiarize the reader with the very start of a collection: concepting and the brief. Typically, designers journal and sketch separately because you almost never find body templates, let alone templates combined with room for journaling. To pull a concept together, a designer gathered many resources to create a HUGE mood board. And all body templates, known as croquis (CROW-kee), were hand-drawn; this was a daunting challenge for anyone who was art-challenged, "not a creative", or felt uncomfortable drawing the perfect body. Think of how many amazing ideas never came to fruition because of creative fear? Each section of these workbooks handles a part of the concepting process from setting up a design calendar so you get used to knowing when to start, to getting down and dirty by going shopping, well Market Shopping, and checking out your competition, doing some research on current and upcoming trends to pull together on your inspiration pages, THEN you can start sketching looks on prepared croquis. When your sketches are done, you'll recap your design details and enter comments from any meetings you have. After all sections are complete, you will wrap up the collection by jotting down notes of thanks on the Mahalo pages, entering your thoughts of gratitude on the oli lines of the dancer, freeing them to the universe, for it to send you good intentions in return. The books are laid out to highlight single and double-page sketches, where you can use the full 17" width of the book. At only 150 pages, the books easily open to lay flat to tell your stories. Each page uses a dot matrix vs. lined graph paper to help you stay organized with your thoughts without being contained by a grid and the entire book is printed in light grey ink so you can design easily on top of the croquis, which will "fade" behind your sketches. Each book contains: a quarterly calendar with seasonal reference to retail selling, general raw material and garment production leadtimes, general shipping transit leadtimes, a color key to help prioritize dates, and an embellishment layering guide to help you design those extra special details that makes garments sell! 4 Market Shopping pages with mini-sketch areas to note special details used by your competition, and other important information like stores that carry the product you want to design, your competitor's price points, trends they cover, etc. 1 double-spread Inspiration section (a full 11x17 in area) for you to note trends you feel are important, colors you believe in, what you think your competition is lacking, who your customer is, what is important to him or her. This is about you and who you want your customer to be. 60 pairs of women's croquis, front AND back. You need to know what your designs should look like coming down the runway and heading back to the stage. Hairstyles have even been included in case you don't want to send bald models down the runway (don't get us wrong: bald is also beautiful and can be effective to stay focused on your designs!) 1 double-spread for design details 1 double spread for meeting notes 1 double-spread Mahalo gratitude section This is the perfect gift for fashion designers, patternmakers, developers, illustrators, fashion students, and homemakers. If you think you want a career in fashion, this is the perfect book to start your portfolio and confidently present to the department heads. I have an amazing fashion career. You can, too! Aloha!