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- Special Topics: Prop Design Studio, spring 2020:
- Product Design: Visual Communication I (Sophomore): Fall semester.
- Product Design: Visual Communication II (Sophomore): Spring semester.
- Fashion Design: Sophomore model drawing: MEN. Fall semester.
- Fashion Design: Sophomore model drawing: WOMEN: Fall semester
- Fashion/Costume Design: Sophomore dynamic model drawing: Spring semester
- Fashion Design: Sophomore model drawing: WOMEN: Spring semester
- Fashion Design: Junior model drawing: Fall semester
- Fashion Design: Junior model drawing: Spring semester
Fashion Design: Junior model drawing: Spring semester
- Week 1: Basic female fashion pose
- Week 2: Contour, mapping, linequality. Water color rendering techniques.
- Week 3: Fitted jacket. 1 minute warm ups, color blocking and rendering techniques
- Week 4: Fitted avant garde jackets, Shoes, hands and faces, more clothes, mixed media.
- Week 5: More rendering techniques
- Week 6: More techniques, water color, shadow/light and contour.
- Week 7: Midterm test: Fitted jackets, shape contrasts.
- Weeks 8 and 9: More textures and rendering techniques. fast sketches w/o underdrawings.
- Week 10: More textures. Composition of 2 figures, rendereing techniques.
- Week 11: Knit coat and diverse.
- Week 12: Better sports wear and composition
- Week 13: Composing 2 or 3 figures in page/perspektive.
- Week 14: Final test.

Starting to compose all figures you draw on page. Some further away, some closer up. Think room perspective and where's your eye line.

Here I decided to line my figures up at chest level. It's always helpful to draw a little thump nail at first (see last image).
It's also more interesting when we have over laps of the figures and different spaces between the figures.

If we aren't happy with our composition, it's always fun to 'cut and paste', move them around and try out the nicest look.
In this examples case I moved my eye line from chest (original) to waist.

Think of the "golden rule" 1/3 versus 2/3 to start with first figure. Also always be aware of your eye line and the vanishing point. That way you achieve the most debt on your page.


Big contrast in size. Still level at example the shoulders. Otherwise your figures float around....

Eye line matched up (at eye line).

Thumb nails: