Procreate Tutorial: How to Make a Fashion Sketch on iPad

Learn how to create a fashion sketch using all the dressmaking and body proportion techniques, with Carol Gomide

Women’s fashion brings together professionals from the most diverse areas and is capable of combining art and history through its unique productions. Through illustration, for example, new pieces come out of the imagination and become reality.

Learning to illustrate to create your own women’s fashion collection, combining manual and digital design techniques, is one of the ways to reach thousands of people.

Carol Gomide (@carolinepgomide) is passionate about this creative industry, as well as a fashion illustrator and creator of Depois das Quatro, an illustration brand dedicated to models by famous designers.

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In this tutorial, Carol teaches how to create a fashion sketch using costume techniques and body proportion. And the best: with simple and easy-to-execute tips. Do not miss it!

To get started, create a new file in Procreate and divide your sheet into 9 parts. Always start the sketch from the head, on the frontal axis, between parts 1 and 2 of the scale.

Create a new file in Procreate and divide your sheet into 9 parts.

Shortly after, define the shoulder line diagonally to give movement to the sketch. You can use a straighter line, it all depends on the effect you want to cause.

Place the shoulder line on the diagonal to give movement to the sketch.

On line number 3, draw a diagonal line to mark the waist region. Next, create a parallel line for the hips.

Draw a diagonal line to mark the waist area.

Mark the knee and ankle area with small circles, joining them with a straight line to form the first leg.

Mark with small circles in the knee and ankle area.

Draw the second leg diagonally behind the first to give movement and elegance.

Draw the second leg behind the first, on the diagonal behind the first

Create circles to mark the shoulders and elbows, placing one arm behind the torso to maintain body movement. The second arm goes in front, in a straighter position.

Draw one of the arms behind the torso.

When you finish these steps, erase all internal marks from the eraser. Now the task of designing the costumes begins.

Erase all internal marks from your sketch.

Make the marks on the chest and hair, keeping in mind that this step will make it easier for you to visualize what you are creating.

Make marks on the chest and hair.

Create a new layer for clothing and unleash your creativity. For this exercise, you can use a reference photo.

Create a new layer for the garment and unleash your creativity.

Make waves in the fabric of your garment to facilitate the creation of shadows and give a natural effect. This technique also serves to show how the garment falls.

Change the brush to Pen and draw the outline in black, preferably with a thickness greater than the one you were using for the base of the sketch. The outline is what will give more emphasis and refinement to your sketch.

Draw the outline in black.

Finally, erase all the pencil base and leave only the layer with the outlines.

The outline will give more clarity to your sketch.

Did you like this tutorial? If you want to learn with Carol how to give shape, color and texture to your women’s fashion collection by combining manual and digital drawing techniques, don’t miss the online course Illustration of fashion sketches.

Spanish version by @laura_bernal_m