20th Centuary England

This centuary had so many different fashion styles within it that I decided to draw an outfit from each decade instead inorder to do it justice. We start in 1910 and finish up in 1990.

For these last few drawings I decided to use watercolours. A few of them I out lined in ball point pen because they were from dress making magazines of that era and I didn't think I would be able to do it accurately with paint.

19th Centuary England

These drawings I was really pleased with, especially the pencil drawing, it is joint favourite with the geisha one I posted earlier. I think it could have been better though, but once again I got so caught up drawing it that I forgot to change my pencils again.

18th Centuary England

With these images I think I used the wrong medium again. The top photo I spent quite some time getting the shading right and then when I put the pattern on I think I ruined it.

17th Centuary England

Not much to say about these. The're not my favourite, but the're not the worse either.

16th Centuary England

Welcome to the era of Henry the 8th and his numerous wives. Sometimes I get so into a drawing that I forget to change my pencils to the different leads like in the Henry the 8th one above.

15th Centuary England

By now you have probibly noticed that I stopped drawing the faces of the models. This is because when drawings the pictures I would spend too much time trying to get the face right. Also I think it detracted from the clothes, if I didn't draw the faces then maybe people would pay more attention to the clothes.

Medival

It was hard to know where to start the section on fashion from different eras. So I decided to start in the medival years and work forward to 1990.

India

Here is the last of the cultural clothes that I have done, I know there are alot more that I could have done but I would have be there forever.

African

I enjoyed doing the african clothes because the materials were so colourful, although it was alot or orange.

Roman/Greek

I only have one page on roman clothes, so I have decided to combine the greek and roman clothes.

Chinese

Next up chinese clothing. Don't know why I didn't finish the girl in the pink dress.

Japanese

Here is my next set of drawings based on japaneses clothing. I love the Geisha painting and im really pleased with it. However I hate the samurai one, I think I chose the wrong medium to paint it in but I thought I would show it anyway. Reminder to self, gouache is too thick for this painting.

Egyptian

Here are my first drawings based on egyptian clothing. I appologise from the greyness of the images, but no matter where I put the sketchbook in the studio it looked grey.

100 Drawings

So last year we were given a 100 drawings project and I decided to do mine on the history of fashion. I looked at clothing from different cultures and different time periods, so the next bunch of photos are my 100 (56, literally I ran out of time) drawings.