Illustrated Men: Drawing and Rendering the Male Fashion Figure

Delve into the art of menswear illustration and learn what it takes to create professional, noteworthy fashion sketches. Using watercolor, marker, pencil, and digital tools, illustrator and educator Lamont O’Neal helps you master fundamentals such as anatomy and proportion in a book including more than 300 color examples. Later chapters focus on garment drawing, the principles of balance and movement, and classic poses and how they can show designs to best advantage. The book includes a number of unique features - a history of menswear illustration, providing introductions to influential practitioners; a discussion of how you can use hand drawing to express your own style and creativity; and reference photographs showing how sketches and illustrations relate to the finished garment - making this the ultimate guide to drawing and rendering the male fashion figure.