FASHIONATOMY!!! Understand the fashion figure with LORETTA TEDESCHI-CUOCO

Picture this! You’re a passionate fashion illustrator and want to improve your figure drawing. You attend life-drawing sessions regularly. Great! Realising that drawing the figure is hard you decide to learn a bit more about anatomy. You pick up an anatomy book. It is full of diagram after diagram. Some of the skeleton, some of muscles. It feels like a medical text book and somehow not connected to the fluid and dynamic forms you want to sketch.

You usually draw feminine figures in graceful poses in the life-drawing sesh’s you attend, but the anatomy books and courses all focus on extremely muscle-y masculine figures. (why is this?)

Frustrated, you pic up one of your fashion magazines and sketch the images on the pages. This is fun, but a lot of the pictures don’t translate well to drawings and besides, you feel like you are simply copying, and not understanding the underlying form!

Get to the bare bones of fashion illustration

Here’s where FASHIONATOMY comes into play. Get this two hour masterclass and learn first hand from a professional illustrator with a proven track record of figure drawing.

Get to the bare bones of fashion illustration. Learn how to approach

• structure and form
• anatomical landmarks
• figure construction
• the relationship between clothes and underlying figure
• ddirection and movement lines of cloths
• balance, centre of gravity and gesture.

These indispensable skills are invaluable for drawing from imagination or getting down the key points quickly when drawing from life. But it goes deeper! Having the confidence to construct a dynamic fashion figure from scratch will inspire you to draw even more than you do already. You won’t want to put your pens and brushes down!

LORETTA TEDESCHI-CUOCO

With over 30 years experience as a Fashion Illustrator in NY, Loretta's credentials include clients such as worked as Polo Ralph Lauren, Disney, Burberry's, Macy's and NIKE.

In addition to commercial illustration she has taught extensively at organisations including NY's Fashion Institute of Technology and at Parsons. When she is relaxing she can be found live sketching at events, leading workshops and creating fashion related art to exhibit.

Loretta's sessions are a goldmine for illustrators of all abilities as she meticulously breaks down practical and fun techniques for responding to a range of drawing challenges with mixed media.

Includes a Free Recording + The FASHIONATOMY Photo Reference Set!!!

In order to share the unique teaching experience that Loretta has honed in her celebrated fashion illustration classes we have teamed up with iconic muse Life Model Lot and created a very special set of reference images depicting the figure posed in both barely clothed and fully clothed states!

This unique and invaluable selection of reference images will be used by Loretta to facilitate the learning process and will also be made available to every attendee of this Masterclass to keep and refer to!

All participants will also receive a recording of the class to keep!

The FASHIONATOMY process!!!

Loretta leads us through sketching the nearly nude figure, directing us through the anatomy/movement.

Then placing a sheet of tracing paper on that drawing we do a fashion illustration of the same clothes pose, using simple line and shadow.

You will probably want to try this with some tracing paper!

Loretta’s preference is a Tombow Fudenosuke pen and a black prismacolor pencil. But if you don’t have these to hand you can use a pen and pencil of your choice!

Use the Discount code FASHIONFORM for a 25% Discount. Ends in one week.