1 www.DesignersNexus.com Instructions for Fashion Sketches Set So you need to draw at sketches for this season’s fashion line, but you always nd yourself in a time crunch when drawing fashion at sketches. What’s a designer to do?! We created this Fashion Sketches Set to help you create at sketches quickly and easily, so you can spend more time actually designing! We took the time to pre-sketch tons of fashion at sketches in Adobe Illustrator, so that YOU won’t have to! This Fashion Sketches Set contains everything you need to quickly put together at sketches for just about any fashion design you can think of! Kind of like paper dolls for at sketching: just grab the body you want and pair it with collars, sleeves, pockets, waistbands, etc. to “build” your fashion design ats. And with over 1,000 fashion sketches to choose from, the design possibilities are endless! About: Fashion Sketches Set contains vector at sketches of garment bodies (tops, pants, skirts, jackets, etc.) and matching garment details (sleeves, collars, pockets, waistbands etc.). These pre-drawn fashion sketches are made to t with one another so you can simply mix and match sketches to quickly create your fashion design ats. All industry standard ats in th is set are drawn with true leng th proport ions at ap proximately 1/8th sc ale (8x’s smaller than actual size). (Width proportions are slightly slimmed to meet most fashion aesthetics). At 1/8th scale, 1 grid square = 1 inch, so it’s easy to sketch design details based on real dimensions. And enlarging sketches to show accurate artwork layouts and detail sketches is so simple. You can also place multiple sketches on fashion CAD presentation boards without worrying about resizing them to the same scale! Adobe Illustrator Basics: While our Fashion Sketches Set makes it easy for you to create fashion design ats and will save you hours of sketching time, it is NOT intended as a substitution for knowing how to sketch in Adobe Illustrator! We highly recommend being comfortable with the following Illustrator tools and basic skills before using our Fashion Flat Sketches: • DRAWING WITH THE PEN TOOL!! • Adding, Subtracting, and Converting anchor points • Using the Selection, Direct Selection, & Group Selection tools appropriately to select, move, adjust, & delete paths/objects • Copying & Pasting selections • Grouping & Ungrouping objects • Working with Layers • Arranging Stacking Order : (Bring Forward, Send Backward etc.) • Changing Fill & Stroke colors • Scaling, Rotating, & Refecting objects • Reecting objects using the Transform Panel • Aligning and Distributi ng objects using the Align Panel • Cutting paths using the Scissor tool If you need to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator, or need to brush up on the skills listed above, see our Adobe Illustrator for the Fashion Industry eBook. © 2008 Designers Nexus Inc. All rights reserved. You may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale o f, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of our eBooks, in whole or in part without written permission from Designers Nexus Inc. d e s i g n e r s e x u s Fashion Sketches Set
