Hi friends, Today I want to teach you the best and easiest way to sketch fashion figures back. Follow these simple steps and learn how to draw fashion figures back in 3 minutes. Don’t escape this course because you will need to draw back pose for showing the garments back details. The fashion figures back proportion and segmentation are similar to the front pose. So if you haven’t yet studied fashion figures frontal pose course, study and practice it before starting.
To Do this course, you will need white bond paper A3, design board size A3, automatic pencil and eraser.
How to sketch Fashion Figures back
How to draw fashion sketches. Every design begins as a sketch. A fashion sketch is the first step in bringing your fashion creations to life. These sketches are not accompanied by a figure, and its core purpose is to communicate your design and all its technical elements, such as length of garment and fit, to the viewer. With easy step-by-step guides, the first module of Teya’s masterclass takes you from the basics of figure drawing to creating fashion croquis with ideal proportions. You get an assignment after each part and Teya’s professional advice on how to improve your technique. Basics of figure drawing. Flawless proportions technique. Women.
Blocking the figures back
- With a little space draw a vertical line form up to drown. Divide it into 8.5 equal sections.
- Draw the head, on the first section.
The head length is the figure’s body length measurement unit and head width is your figures body width measurement unit. Don’t forget just like frontal pose, the head width should be exactly 2/3 of head length. So try to draw it flawless. - Draw the shoulder-line, waist-line, and hip-line respecrively at the places 1.5, 3 and 4 in width 1, 1.25 and 2 head width.
- Draw basic shape of figures hands and feet exactly same as front pose.
Fashion Design Sketch Template
The foot shape form back pose can be seen shorter than the frontal pose. So that, divide the lase 1/2 section into three equal sections. In the up 2/3, draw the foot shape into a small trapezoid.
How to draw Figures Back Muscles
- From the back view, the neck starts slightly upper.
To determine the exact location of starting, divide the head length into three equal sections. The middle of down 1/3 is the starting point of the neck from the back view.
- Draw the necklines at a distance of 1/2 head width, on both sides of the centerline.
- Divide the distance between chin and bust into three equal sections just like the front view. Extend the necklines to the first 1/3.
- The shoulder slope in the back is slightly more convex than the front. Therefore draw the shoulder 1mm fatter.
- Indicate the spine a little lower than the shoulder-line to the waist-line.
You will need these markings, later in coloring fashion figure. - From the end of the second section, specify the shoulder blades on both sides of the centerline.
- In the figures back, the armpit just starts form below the shoulder joints. Draw the distance from armpit to near the bust line slightly fatter (1mm) than front.
- Draw a curve line a little inside, 1/3 up the waistline and 1/3 down the waistline.
- Draw the hip, slightly more circular than front view.
- To draw the hip, at first you have to specify the crotch. It is located a little lower than fornt pose. Do down about 3mm and mark.
- The hip shape is drawn in two cheeks that placed one on the other. Divide the distance between the waistline and hip line into three equal sections. A little lower than first 1/3, is the place that the cheeks start.
- Draw the cheeks as shown.
Figures Foot in Back View
- The foot crotch is seen as a hole. So draw feet to knee with somewhat distance of inside.
- Draw the outside parts of the feet form hips to knee.
- From knees to ankles, draw just like front view. The feet shape in back pose are similar to front pose but isted of drawing knee, draw _/ shape to indicate knee back.
- Draw the ridge of ankles bone and also feet.
How to Draw Figures hand
- Draw outside of hand with 1mm distance form basic shape.
- Form the back of the figure, parts of hands can’t be seen. Therefore draw the inside of hand slightly lower than the bust line.
- the hands from back pose are seen as a pinky finger, a part of thumb and the shadow of the other fingers. So draw the hands of the fashion figure and specify the elbow as a U shape.
THE FASHION FIGURE VERSUS THE _______HUMAN FIGURE________
Even though the present-day trend is toward naturalism in fashion sketching, there is still a vast difference between the fashion figure and the human figure. The greatest difference is, as it always has been, in the height of the two figures. The fashion figure is always taller, more graceful and more seductive in line.
The variance in other ways may be summed up in a few words: the fashion figure is higher busted, broader and squarer shouldered, and narrower, very narrow, in the hips. The proportions vary from season to season to exploit more perfectly the current modes, but these are the general high points to remember.
The average human figure is seven and one-half heads tall, whereas a fashion figure may be from eight to ten heads tall, - in extreme mannequin types, as many as twelve heads. However, the height of the fashion figure should be governed by the length of the head and the width of the shoulders. This added height lends sophistication, grace and smartness to the figure - qualities that are envied by the majority of women and therefore enhance the appeal of an advertisement.
There should be a more angular appearance and a more abstract feeling to a fashion sketch than there is to a human figure, but at the same time the fashion figure, to meet modern popular demands, must be natural looking and suggestive of action.
This comparison will illustrate the contrasting proportions of the human and fashion figures. Both figures were started with the same size head as their unit of measuring.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMATED FASHION FIGURE
Although the Animated fashion figure is the type most popular for newspaper advertising and general use, the fashion artist should be familiar with the proportions of both the Animated and the Mannequin Types. The following proportions are for an animated figure in a symmetrical pose, front view, to illustrate more clearly the correct locations of the parts of the body. Copy this figure exactly, including all the guide lines, and keep it in your permanent file.
The average person will find it easier to draw from left to right and from top of the paper down, but you may proceed in any manner you prefer. As the head is the most useful unit for measuring a figure, it will be used as a measuring unit for all other proportions. One speaks of a figure as being so many heads tall. The human figure is seven and one-half heads tall, whereas a fashion figure is from eight to ten heads tall. The Animated Type of fashion figure is about eight and three-quarters heads tall.
First, draw a vertical line lengthwise through the center of your drawing paper.
Fashion Figure Sketch
Construct an egg-shaped oval at the top of this line with the larger part of the oval at the top. This represents the head.