For one/two-semester, sophomore-level courses in Fashion Design, Apparel Marketing, Design Illustration, Fashion Advertising, Fashion Buying and Merchandising. This up-to-date text demonstrates with clarity and precision, the beginning, middle, and advanced techniques for marker and watercolor rendering for the fashion industry. Its focus and approach demystify the rendering process in simple, easy to follow step-by-step instructions--with specific examples that encourage practice and student confidence in either media of choice. A fundamental format builds on skill and proficiency, and it contains a gradual, natural progression of style into more complex and detailed techniques. This book encourages individual style development. This book has a notebook feel that makes it faculty/student friendly.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Disappointed with the amount of B&W content, but information is still useful!:
I have found Bina Abling's books to the most useful of all the different fashion sketching books out there. This book was a supplemental to my Fashion Sketching class, and it has invaluable information on techniques for rendering multitudes of fabric, designs details, etc. in full color. As noted in other reviews, there was also a lot of black and white images for a book focused on 'rendering in color.' But I have found that a lot of the illustration work I'm now doing will be printed in B&W, so... more info
fashion rendering with color:
Would have been useful if 98 % of the book was actually in color, not black & white. Was extremely expensive for such a short book printed in this way.
Childish illustrations:
I bought this book because it had such good reviews, but I was very disappointed with the contents. The title is fashion rendering with color, but most of the illustrations are black and white (very misleading). Plus the illustrations don't look very professional in my opinion. If you have no drawing skills but want to become a fashion designer, then this is the right book for you. Otherwise, don't buy it.
Great for starters:
Bina Abling's Fashion Rendering with Color is a great source of information and consultation for starters on fashion design, and drawing in general. I've just started fashion design lessons, and I do not have many resources regarding this specific subject in my country, so I turned to Amazon.com to find the best, and I did. I've presented a collection of 30 dolls, using some of the styles on this wonderfull book, and I'm doing great, so I recommend this book to anyone who is starting, or just wants to know... more info
