Essentials Fashion Sketchbook (360 Figure Templates to create your designs!): A Designer's Companion

I bought this sketchbook for my daughter as a way to help her unwind during her GCSE study period, and it was a great choice. She’s had a lot of fun with it — the layout is very user-friendly, and there are plenty of pages to experiment with.Pros:Loads of figure templates (360!) to sketch on — no pressure to draw bodies from scratchEncourages creativity and design thinkingGreat for stress relief and screen-free downtimeGood quality paper that holds up to pens and colouringCons:None really — it's exactly what it says it is, and well worth the priceIt gave her a creative outlet during a stressful time, and she’s already filled quite a few pages. Would definitely recommend for teens who enjoy fashion or design.

Highly recommend, mine wasn’t torn or damaged like other reviews say!

Bought for a 6 year old who loves drawing and fashion design. She could not be happier and treats it like a precious object. Every page has two model figures outlined in blue and a space for writing notes. She uses them to draw characters wearing inventive fashion creations and then she writes their names and superpowers, hobbies or jobs etc underneath. It would be great if there was some diversity of body shape, if there were more editions for e.g. pre-teens, teenagers, and more average shaped adult women, I'd probably end up buying them all. The exterior looks like a good quality hardback black A5 diary, there is also an elastic to keep pages secure and a ribbon bookmark, and some pages for hair/makeup/hat and shoe designs at the back. There could be more of these to be honest, she has used them already with lots of the regular pages still left over. A layout that grouped a couple of pages of full size models followed by a couple of pages of heads and feet would be an ideal combination so they could be used for close ups on the details of the main outfits/costumes. But as it is this book is still very loved and a great present for anyone of any age into designing female characters and/or fashion.

This is suited to someone who is interested in designing solely women's wear, shoes and accessories. The croquis are all female mannequins of standard model proportions - no children, and no plus size figures either.The first part of the sketchbook (from recollection as it was returned) had a section relating to measurements, International standards, fabric composition, fashion terms etc. There was a 'receipt' pocket at the back.The vast majority of pages were made up what seemed to be 4 full figure poses repeating over the pages (from recollection front and back per page) with a shorter section on feet for shoe design and heads for head attire or possibly make up, although the faces already had lipstick and eyeliner so I'm not sure how useful they'd be to a wannabe makeup artist.Overall my recipient and I felt that this was somewhat limited in its use to anyone other than a designer who wanted to specifically draw womens wear and the general feel was that this was aimed at a teen to young adult audience although I'm sure many would be designers would disagree.The positive aspect to this book is that the pages are perforated and would allow you to tear out designs to add to mood boards or specification sheets, and from what I've read elsewhere the pale blue of the croquis outline is pretty much invisible when scanned or photocopied - although neither the recipient nor myself tried it out as the item wasn't deemed suitable for what he wanted.I note from others that they were disappointed that there were no templates, I think it would be a relatively simple matter to adapt the constituent croquis with ink and then remove them before using a laminator for reuse through conventional tracing, although I'd question whether or not there would be any copyright issues involved first.It's not an obviously girlie notebook so if you are male and into fashion design - womens wear then it won't be obvious to the world that is what you are doing with this notebook.All in all had it have been suitable it would have been perfect but we felt that it didn't quite offer the variety of body shapes (he is designing mens wear I discovered) we needed and so sadly had to return.

I wish I'd known about this years ago! One of my favourite pastimes is doodling clothes. I have so many ideas that I like to get down on paper quickly. This little book takes the guesswork out of proportion. There are fine blue figures in a lovely variety of poses. These don't transfer if photocopied so that the final sketch is only visible. I use a black pen and jot down as many ideas as possible. I'm not using it to work on a collection, more as a memoir. It could easily be used to put together a collection and the pages are easily removed. The variety of poses suggest different ideas and details. There are also a few lines at the bottom of each page to write down details, material ideas etc. At the back there are feet and head images to use for accessories.The paper is quite thick and my pen has not bleed through the pages. I am so happy with this book. It has thick, quality paper with elastic to hold it closed.

Oh wow!!! Love it. I sketch all the time! Clear sketching over feint model poses, doesn't interfere with your designing.It helps you to sketch more in proportion with your ideas.Great price too. Good for me being a designer teacher, I sketch womens clothes, also shoes as I do both. So its an invaluable tool for me.I would 110% recommend this. Its neat looking.Easy to carry in your bag too. Well,... I just had to add this on that I have had about six of these sketch books in total they are really worth the value and price! Just to add on I've had about 5 of these sketch books now!

Lovely gift

I love this book. It's compact and neat. All of the croquis enable easy use of your fashion designing skills. Beginner or advanced it's a must.My only gripe is the marker pens transfer through the page so I have to use pencil crayons as an underlay. Luckily there are hundreds of croquis in this book so there's plenty to work with.

Ottimo! L'ho comprato per fare un regalo alla mia ragazza che è appasionata di moda e ama disegnare. Rispetta tutte le caratteristiche della descrizione. Penso sia perfetto per chi ama disegnare a livello amatoriale.

I would tell this book is worth buying for both adults and teens as the book is so good. It has a lot of templates and figures to sketch on. Recommend this for fashion designers or beginners.It comes with a holder at the back which is useful to keep pens and other supplies in it.

I bought this on a whim for my daughter's 9 birthday. She loves to draw. I wasn't going to give it to her at first because it seemed a bit advanced or mature?? The forms are faceless and naked (no features - just an outline) and super skinny. Against my motherly sensibility, I gave it to her anyway. That was in May. Since then, she draws in just about every day and has made some very cool and creative fashion sketches. She has a long bus ride each day, so this often goes with her. She sketches in it every night before bed, too. Sometimes we sketch together. It's so fun designing crazy outfits, hairdos, etc. You get many different figure poses, feet to design shoes, and heads for makeup or hair. It's a perfect portable size (about the size of diary I would say) and is hardbound for durability with a ribbon to hold your place. It has a glossary of terms with illustrations, too. She's almost filled this up and asked for it again! And for under $10, how can you go wrong?

Lo compré para regalar, pero me gustó tanto que ya pedí el segundo para mí

Köpte till dotter. Hon älskar det speciellt att hon slipper rita själva modeler då kan hon direkt göra design