FSAD 1220

Fashion Drawing

4.0 credits · Undergraduate

This course approaches drawing as an essential skill for fashion designers. Through drawing we engage in a process of inquiry with the subjects of our drawings. We use the drawing process to examine, develop, and reconfigure our ideas and we use drawing to communicate our ideas to others. This studio course will employ a variety of media and techniques for fashion drawing. Class time will be spent drawing from life, learning fashion-specific drawing techniques, and engaging in discussions and critiques. Sketchbook research and design iteration for fashion design will be developed through weekly assignments. Prior drawing experience is not required to take this course.

Topics

As a hands-on studio, the course level learning outcomes are connected to the student learning outcomes via practice.
It is expected that students will continue to employ techniques learned in the course to become proficient at fashion drawing.
To enhance and develop drawing as an essential design skill that can clearly communicate a fashion designer’s ideas.
To understand compositional and expressive modes of communication within drawings via constructive discussions and critiques of assignments and drawings made during class.
To learn fashion proportions, and fashion illustration techniques.
To train and learn observation skills through drawing, visually analyzing drawing subjects.

Official roster learning outcomes

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026-2027