FASHION ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP SERIES

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Description
The Fashion Illustration Workshop Series is a sequence of four workshops designed to enable fashion designer to express the creative ideas and illustrated them in a way that they can be produced by a patternmaker or to sell designs to companies. This program provides participants an opportunity to gain the foundational skills and sensibilities needed to pursue a fashion education that is solid and enjoyable. In the Fashion Illustration Workshop participants can gain a strong foundation in drawing and rendering that will enable them to make their own designs and even begin their first collection pieces.

Students may either enroll in one module at a time or may enroll for the entire series of four modules. Students who complete the entire sequence in the Fashion Illustration Workshop Series are eligible for a certification of completion.

In addition to the Fashion Illustration Workshops additional optional workshops are available such as the Fashion Stylist Certificate to build upon the solid foundation the Fashion Illustration Workshop Series provides. The fashion Stylist Certificate compliments this series by further developing the ability to work with clients to design a sellable fashion collection.

Participants in the Fashion Illustration Workshop series may also elect to participate in a number of related workshops to supplement their studies in fashion illustration. Recommended and available workshops include:

Fashion Pattern-Making
Fashion Stylist
Fashion Trend Forecasting

FASHION ILLUSTRATION - LEVEL I - BASIC DRAWING TECHNIQUES
Prerequisites	No prior experience is required
Number of Weeks	Four Weeks
Sessions	Four two hour sessions, one session per week
Tuition	$275 (plus supplies)
Available Sessions	Afternoon Session - 4:00-6:00 PM
	Weekend Session I - Saturday 1:00-3:00PM
	Weekend Session II - Saturday 3:00-5:00PM
Available Locations	SoNo Design CoOp - South Norwalk CT
Available Locations	San Francisco CA
Description	Fashion illustration is an introduction of basic fashion drawing techniques. Proportions, balance, composition &
fashionable flare are taught in the class. Black and white sketching techniques.
Note: A schedule of Fashion Illustration I workshops available in San Francisco CA area is available by request via email to deco@worldfashioncouncil.org

FASHION ILLUSTRATION - LEVEL II - COLOR FABRIC RENDERING
Prerequisites	Fashion Illustration I or prior fashion illustration experience
Number of Weeks	Four Weeks
Sessions	Four two hour sessions, one session per week
Tuition	$275 (plus supplies)
Available Sessions	Afternoon Session 4:00 – 6:00 PM
	Weekend Session I - Saturday 1:00-3:00PM
	Weekend Session II - Saturday 3:00-5:00PM
Available Locations	SoNo Design CoOp - South Norwalk CT
Available Locations	San Francisco CA
Description	Fashion illustration will teach color fabric rendering and introduction of fabric vocabulary. Application of
professional marker and pencil techniques will be introduced such as flat color, shading and expressing different fabric characteristics.
Note: A schedule of Fashion Illustration I workshops available in San Francisco CA area is available by request via email to deco@worldfashioncouncil.org

FASHION ILLUSTRATION - LEVEL III - PRINTS,PROPORTION & SCALE
Prerequisites	Fashion Illustration II or prior fashion illustration experience
Number of Weeks	Four Weeks
Sessions	Four two hour sessions, one session per week
Tuition	$275 (plus supplies)
Available Sessions	Afternoon Session 4:00 – 6:00 PM
	Weekend Session I - Saturday 1:00-3:00PM
	Weekend Session II - Saturday 3:00-5:00PM
Available Locations	SoNo Design CoOp - South Norwalk CT
Available Locations	San Francisco CA
Description	Fashion Illustration III is a class where fabric prints will be designed and rendered in proportion and scale of the
human body. The techniques of gouache and markers will be practiced.
Note: A schedule of Fashion Illustration I workshops available in San Francisco CA area is available by request via email to deco@worldfashioncouncil.org

FASHION ILLUSTRATION - LEVEL IV - FASHION COLLECTION
Prerequisites	Fashion Illustration III or equivalent fashion illustration experience
Number of Weeks	Four Weeks
Sessions	Four two hour sessions. One session per week.
Tuition	$275 (plus supplies)
Available Sessions	Afternoon Session 4:00 – 6:00 PM
	Weekend Session I - Saturday 1:00-3:00PM
	Weekend Session II - Saturday 3:00-5:00PM
Available Locations	SoNo Design CoOp - South Norwalk CT
Available Locations	San Francisco CA
Description	Fashion Illustration IV is a class where the first Fashion Collection will be designed applying all learned from the
previous workshops. The techniques of gouache and markers will be practiced.
Note: A schedule of Fashion Illustration I workshops available in San Francisco CA area is available by request via email to deco@worldfashioncouncil.org

THE FASHION ILLUSTRATION I,II III & IV - WORKSHOP SERIES
Prerequisites	Association Membership
Time To Complete	Four Months
Tuition	$975 (plus supplies)
Available Sessions	Afternoon Session 4:00-6:00PM
Available Sessions	Evening Session 6:00-8:00PM
Available Locations	SoNo Design CoOp - South Norwalk CT
Available Locations	Online Workshop
Description	Association members registering for the Fashion Illustration are automatically enrolled in Fashion Illustration I, II, III & IV.
Once enrolling Association Members are free to choose the available individual fashion illustration workshop session that best fits their needs. In addition to the requirement of successfully completing each of the Sewing individual workshops in the Fashion Illustration Workshop Series Association members registering for THE FASHION ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP SERIES are also required to develop and build a portfolio of their work throughout the workshop series. The portfolio developed throughout each of the series’ four workshops is review in a special end-of-workshop critique session. These end-of-workshop critique sessions are designed to help members identify strengths, critical needs and potential opportunities for further professional development and networking. After completing all Sewing workshops association members present a portfolio of the work they completed throughout the entire workshop series along with a mutually agreed upon final project. The end-of-series critique session is attended by the student, faculty member and one or more invited fashion industry experts. Note: Participation in the portfolio development and end-of-module guidance is only available to association members registering for the entire series of four workshops. Participation in the portfolio development and end-of-module guidance Series Description: The Fashion Illustration Workshop Series is a sequence of four workshops designed to enable fashion designer to express the creative ideas and illustrated them in a way that they can be produced by a patternmaker or to sell designs to companies. This program provides participants an opportunity to gain the foundational skills and sensibilities needed to pursue a fashion education that is solid and enjoyable. In the Fashion Illustration Workshop participants can gain a strong foundation in drawing and rendering that will enable them to make their own designs and even begin their first collection pieces.

THE FASHION ILLUSTRATION CERTIFICATE

This intense Fashion art studio class will provide the starting point from which to practice and develop drawing skills and aesthetic vision of how to translate fashion vision onto a paper. Starting from life drawing to developing own croquet to start fashion collection conceptual drawing to practicing technical drawing for production-fashion flats. Black and white drawing technique and rendering in color markers and gouache will be introduced. Fabric rendering, proportions, balance lines and abstract thinking to be applied to fashion design concept will be applied in the workshop. Professional techniques for presentation boards and concept boards will be taught. Vocabulary of styles and art will be used. With this understanding and knowledge in place the student will be able to draw on these skills to further develop the art of fashion illustration and to realize their collection concepts in real practices.

The Fashion Illustration Certificate: Upgraded Version A

If you are interested to work with designer and execute a design you’ll be offered the opportunity to work on developing a custom design created by a designer so you can practice your customer service and patternmaking skills (very important if you are looking to start a pattern making serviceWork as fashion illustrator for a fashion studio and understand how to develop a relationship with a client and maintain it trough good service and creating a trust and reliability.

The Fashion Illustration Certificate: Upgraded Version B

Create your own collection and presentation for a buying office and present to industry professional as you’ll be doing when you start your own line.

FASHION ILLUSTRATION - ONE-ON-ONE - CUSTOM CURRICULUM
Prerequisites	Experience required to support custom curriculum and/or project
Number of Hours	By arrangement (10 hour, 20 hour and 40 hour options are available)
Tuition	$800/10.Hours OR $1,200/20.Hours OR $1,800/40.Hours plus supplies
Available Sessions	By Appointment
Available Locations	SoNo Design CoOp - South Norwalk CT
Description	This private one-on-one custom fashion illustration workshop is designed primarily for two different groups. First, for those fashion illustration students making seeking a very special beginning to power them up the learning curve or for fashion illustrators at an intermediate
or advanced level seeking a fashion illustration mentor who can help them develop and take their skills and/or vision to the next level. Businesses are the second group that will benefit from the custom fashion illustration workshop: from those putting their first collection together (who need expert fashion-illustration guidance) to established fashion shops of all sizes who may need expert just-in-time guidance in all things fashion illustration. For both groups the entire custom one-on-one fashion illustration workshop, from the days and times you meet, to the shape and goals of the entire workshop, to each individual meeting are uniquely designed to fit your specific needs and help you achieve your specific fashion illustration goals.