We're going to start today's lesson by laying out our general fashion figures. There will be four. If you've watched my videos before, you will remember we start with two kind of oblong trapezoids. These will be the base for our torso and our hips off this edge, we will draw our first leg just a soft curve down to where the knee area would be. Then her knee will be here. Same with the other side and then another curve down to her foot.

And as you can see, we're just illustrating her as if she's walking one foot is tucked behind the other and then we'll draw the neck. Remember to always keep your neck straight above Her center of balance, which in this case, is right where both of her feet are. So her neck will be pulled a little bit more to the right than where I have the strap as would that's okay, we just need to make sure she looks balanced. Draw the head outline. I'm gonna give her a stronger jawline, and a softer softly rounded head and then just the indication of where her chest would be. And then off this side, we draw her arms.

Same with the other side. You don't have to go into a lot of detail since we'll be illustrating, essentially outerwear. We're going to cover a lot of this up, it's just going to give us an idea of where the shapes of our coats should lay on the body. So this is plenty to start with. I am also going to drop in price. Remember, as you're illustrating her eyes, you do not have to create a full kind of cat eye shape.

What's really important is maybe eyebrows, a few little eyelashes, and her pupils. If you fully illustrate it all, it tends to look really heavy and distract from what we really want the focal point to be, which is the close. As you go, feel free to pause this tweak your shapes. You know, it's kind of you'll learn for yourself what your style is as you go. And then I'm just going to give her a soft bang. And that's it.

So do the same for your next four shapes. Remember to draw fairly lightly with your pencil here it will help one Get to the watercolor stage when we fill in the color, that these lines are not too heavy or too dark. So some of these lines I've put in that I know we won't be needing and, you know, just keeping them very light. Starting to draw my third figure. At this point, hopefully you've taken some of my other classes. And this feels familiar to you.

So you can start playing with different ways to place her legs, different angles to illustrate her head. For this, I'm going to have one leg swinging outwards. A little more of a dynamic pose. And maybe your head is looking in towards the other girls. Head side views can be really tough. Feel free to practice these separately as often as you need.

It's it's helpful to look at a real picture to to really see where to place the lips and the nose and the eyes. I'm not fully illustrating her eyes here. I'm just giving her a little lash and then bangs and maybe she has a high pony Okay, and with my fourth figure. Same thing, feel free to play with new ways to put your legs your arms, head tilts. Also, you'll notice the more you practice, the bigger the tilt you put here between these boxes, the more kind of attitude your fashion figure will have. Not everyone wants such a strong tilt as I have some.

Some designers have a very straight figure or a figure slightly leaning to the side. So feel free to play with what you think works best for you. Maybe she has a soft a little ponytail here too. Hands two can be tough. I'm not illustrating all the fingers. I'm just getting the indication of the way your hand would sweep outwards and there you have your fashion figures.