Christopher HartThe Beginner's Fashion Design Studio: Easy Templates for Drawing Fashion Favorites

My great niece, an aspiring 8 year old artist has been fixated on this booklet— and her drawings are getting better and better! Beautiful illustrated, easy guidelines and direction. Great gift any age

Design your own fashions with this easy-to-use fashion design studio! With templates for drawing dresses, tops, pants and accessories, you can create your own unique looks.

Bought for school activities. They love it and are so creative...

For full transparency I will mention up front that I was sent a complimentary copy of this book with the request to give an honest review. Additional transparency as far as my artistic skill I am a complete beginner, only now in my retirement learning to draw. However, one thing in my favor seems to be an above average ability to draw what I see.Now, on to the review:It seemed to me with my lack of experience the best review I could give would be to see if I could follow Mr. Hart’s directions and draw a recognizable figure from his book. To test this, I selected 3 random pages to attempt to draw. I spent less than one-hour total on the 3 pages I selected. The results are found in the photos attached to this review. While Marvel isn’t going to be calling me to become a resident artist, I believe you can see Mr. Hart’s instructions and illustrations in this book were sufficient for me to make a decent drawing. In fact, in the skirt drawing I even made a slight modification giving the drawing model a crop top.In addition, I found the written text and hints very helpful to my learning style giving me two points of gaining needed information, both visual and written. The text helped me several times in creating the drawings.I have only given the book 4 stars for a complaint that actually isn’t a fair complaint as the book description clearly states, “…this is the guide every aspiring fashion designer needs for learning to draw their most fabulous creations.” For me, in my journey to learn to draw this limits the usefulness of this book. The world in this book is a Barbie & Ken doll world, filled with illustrations of young, healthy, beautiful people walking down runways (as advertised). Quite a limited scope (ergo 4 stars). I would suggest a book of real people, and their clothes, doing real life things. How do bodies and the clothes they wear look on old people? Chubby people? People sitting in chairs? Hiking up a hill? Working in a garden? Grilling a steak in the backyard look?In the end, if you are looking to learn to draw the fashion plate world, I can highly recommend this book it does have sufficient information for a beginner to follow to success. If you are a beginner and need something with a little more diversity, this book will not be as helpful as you might like.

I like all his art books.

I absolutely love Christopher Hart's books and drawing techniques. Something about the way he teaches is just so easy for me to pick up on. I had some fun editing my sketches in photoshop :) THANK YOU for sharing your talents with the world!!!

We bought this as a birthday gift! She loved it! Seemed to be well made!

Easy to follow guidelines for beginner fashion drawings.