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Technical Drawings
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Also known as: flats, black & whites, diagrammatics or specification drawings - these are used to demonstrate several garments used in clothing design. Using a template, they are drawn to scale, showing construction lines and styling details. This drawing would include stitch lines, collar types, style lines, pockets, trims and all sewing techniques. All aspects must be labelled, eg:”Binding” or “saddle stitch” even if its obvious in the drawing. Imagine you’re communicating with someone who doesn’t know the manufacturing process.
These are always drawn from an anterior perspective, never at an angle. Consider this your only means of communication to the seamstress, if you leave out a particular detail, then the garment won’t end up being manufactured properly.
FREE TEMPLATES!!!
Use these body templates in the same way that you’d use the figure templates, but exclude any parts of the body; this is used for clothing demonstration only, not storyboards.
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Use these CAD garment templates in the same way that you’d use the figure templates, you can use them in Photoshop, Coreldraw or Freehand to do your fashion flats or technical drawings. You can even print them and just trace them off. I gave a selection of the same garment to suit everyone’s styles:
Working drawings may be drawn with your free hand or using a computer program. It is not necessary to use the 9 heads techniques in your flat technical drawings.
I prefer to use a 0.1mm pin fineliner. This will create a professional finish and is handy when illustrating the stitch lines. I know its time consuming, but always draw with pencil first, then fineliner. Use curves and rulers at all times to ensure symmetry.
You can use some creative ideas when displaying your technical drawings, it need not be dull.
