Figure Poses for Fashion Illustrators: Scan, Trace, Copy: 250 Templates for Professional Results. Includes a CD-ROM with over 250 copyright-free images. Paperback – February 1, 2011

My first copy of this book was stolen and I had motive to replace it, for the designer of this book provides proportions and general slash designs which I intend to use on a forthcoming web site of multiple pages. Fortunately the cuts provided are copyright free, though the formatted pages are protected. I enjoy these girls with their insouciant attitudes; they are provided wearing lingerie and also with fairly inspired fashions which are of general interest in the modern world. The models are underfed, as is appropriate for the mostly high end designs for which they are aimed. The book is not long nor overly supplied with descriptive material, though there are tips for providing textile looks and a variety of accessories. A CD containing cuts is provided.

I think this is a wonderful resource for any fashion illustrator, or budding illustrator. Sometimes it's hard to find good poses to use when you're designing, flipping through fashion magazines with weird "artsy" poses, or photos that aren't full body figures just aren't cutting it. So here's a whole collection of very useable and varied poses for drawing. My style is my own, so I just look at the pose, not the shape. I've found it *very* useful.

This is a great resource for anyone who wants to draw fashion sketches. It's a selection of models drawn in a wide variety of poses, which you can use as the base for your own fashion sketches. These sketches are copyright-free, which means you're allowed to trace them, photocopy them, scan them, or use them however you'd like in the creation of your fashion sketches. Or you can simply use them as references for drawing your own models.The book includes a CD, which has all of the sketches included as image files. There are a couple of different file types, including JPG. You can save the files to your computer and open them in Photoshop, for creating digital fashion sketches, or you can print them and trace over them---whatever you like.I'm impressed with the variety of poses that are included. Most are women, but there's a small selection of men, as well as teens and plus-sized models. Most are standing---typical dynamic poses---but a few are sitting. There are poses specifically designed to be appropriate for sportswear, evening wear, casual wear, juniors' wear, and so forth. You're sure to find multiple poses that appeal to you, and if you can't find one that's exactly what you need, you can always mix-and-match! The models are mostly the same size and proportions, so it's easy to copy/paste elements from one model onto the body of another, creating your own unique poses. (I use Photoshop Elements for this.)While I'm at it, I generally adjust the proportions, because these are typical high-fashion models, which means they are NOT sized like human beings. They're quite skinny, for one thing, plus their legs are insanely long, their torsos are stretched out, their arms sometimes reach to their knees, and their hands and feet are enormous! It's the one flaw with this book. It isn't difficult to fix, though, provided you understand the concept of "heads." I draw a guideline beside the drawing that shows more normal proportions (usually eight heads tall), and then I shrink various parts of the body until it matches the guideline. Sure, it takes a little work, but the end result is always worth it. By the time I'm done with the sketch, it no longer resembles the original in any way.Another bonus is that the book includes instructions for drawing different types of clothing and fabric, as well as accessories (shoes, etc.). I wouldn't recommend it for artists who are just starting out, because the proportions aren't accurate. In other words, don't use this as a guide to learning figure drawing, because your models will come out looking all wrong! But if you have a little experience and are comfortable re-sizing the sketches to suit your personal artistic vision, then it's a great resource. I'll give it four stars and recommend it to anyone who needs copyright-free models for their fashion sketches.Also recommended: "Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy," and the two "Figure It Out" books by Christoper Hart. If you're struggling to learn how to draw your own models, his books will help!

Sometimes you just want to be able to quickly sketch off an easy template when brainstorming, working with costume concepts, etc. For those of us who take inordinate amounts of time to perfect the body shape (probably not enough art classes or discipline in my youth, not sure which) this is a pretty handy tool. I use it far more than I thought I would, and would order again.

I got this book for someone who has trouble with drawing figures, but is very interested in fashion. This will help with making an appealling figure to draw clothes on and take away from the stress of drawing a figure from scratch.

I did not think this book had all of what it does have. I thought it was just templates, but , it also has directions on what pose is standard for a certain clothing item. It also has directions on how to color the fabric and embellishments. It has so much more. I highly recommend this book to designers and also to models.

Great book, only downside.... Who uses a CD ROM in this Millennium 🤷‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ (Which is located in the back of the book).I'd rather pay for the extra pages or give me a download link to download the images. I had to go back into the archives and dust off my old external CDR Drive, attach it to my MAC laptop just to view these images as needed... No one has time for this 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦‍♀️

All book I got it great looking and very good prise, thank you very much AMAZON and prime every thing came earlier and safe so protect it amazing