Sketchbook options; Sketchbook criteria; Design Direction to Plan of Action; Exercise 9: Your Design Plan; Translating Concept into Design; Conveying Theme in Color and Fabric; Exercise 10: Conveying Theme in Color and Fabric; Design Development: The Main Event; Exercise 11: Design Development; The Edit: Shaping a Cohesive Collection; Exercise 12: Collection Edit; Interview: Lauren Sehner; Interview: Matthew Harwoodstone

This article is part of a series showcasing and celebrating outstanding sketchbooks by students, artists and designers.You may also be interested in viewing our other sketchbook resources: The Elements of Invention; Designing a Sustainable Future; Interview:Sonja Nesse; Interview: Sunghee Bang

A Complete Guide to Fashion Sketchbooks

One of the biggest advantages of fashion sketchbooks is that you really don’t need to be good at drawing! Just use the croquis as an outline and mark on your seamlines and details, and you’ll end up with a great representation of your design. The word croquis literally translates to "sketch." However, in the fashion world a croquis is a body template from which you sketch. Tips for producing an amazing high school sketchbook(this was originally written for A Level Art and IGCSE/GCSE Art students, but is relevant for students creating a sketchbook, art journal, or visual diary as part of any high school art qualification) Presentation Sketchbook Considerations; Content Edit for Presentation Sketchbook; Content Presentation; Spatial Dynamics; The Working Sketch; Exercise 13: Process Sketch to Working Sketch; Sequencing Plan; Exercise 14: Presentation Sequencing Plan; Interview: Peter Do; Interview: Kieran Dallison

Theoretically, a fashion sketchbook could be any pad of paper or book where you draw ideas for garments! However, the key to most specially-designed sketchbooks is that they contain croquis. Your design philosophy; Exercise 5: Visualizing Your Design Philosophy; Identifying your customer; Exercise 6: Your Key Fashion Message; Targeting your market; Exercise 7: Market and customer analysis; Visualizing your design direction; Interview: Naama Doktofsky; Interview: Daniel Silverstein The students should leave the course feeling confident about working independently to design and develop fashion ideas. They will leave being comfortable in a studio environment and feel ready to pursue further education in fashion design. As a sewist, it is rare to nail a project the first time. Often after completing a garment, you may find that next time around you would make a few changes. If you are like me and have the memory of a goldfish, then capturing what changes you made to a sewing pattern, or would like to make in the future, is invaluable.The course could also be used as a preparation for our Fashion Folio course, and an introduction to the CSM approach to fashion. Do you ever see someone wearing an amazing outfit on the street, think “oh, I must copy that!” and then promptly forget? In conversation with Chelsea College of Arts, MA Curating and Collections 2020 graduate and ‘In Transit’ founder Celina Loh From production to performances and comedy to collaborations: Nahal Ashrafi wants to explore it all New methods will be shown to students through live demonstrations, in a way thats crystal clear and easy to understand.