Essentials Fashion Sketchbook (360 Figure Templates to create your designs!) Hardcover – 25 Aug. 2013

Bought for a 6 year old who loves drawing and fashion design. She could not be happier and treats it like a precious object. Every page has two model figures outlined in blue and a space for writing notes. She uses them to draw characters wearing inventive fashion creations and then she writes their names and superpowers, hobbies or jobs etc underneath. It would be great if there was some diversity of body shape, if there were more editions for e.g. pre-teens, teenagers, and more average shaped adult women, I'd probably end up buying them all. The exterior looks like a good quality hardback black A5 diary, there is also an elastic to keep pages secure and a ribbon bookmark, and some pages for hair/makeup/hat and shoe designs at the back. There could be more of these to be honest, she has used them already with lots of the regular pages still left over. A layout that grouped a couple of pages of full size models followed by a couple of pages of heads and feet would be an ideal combination so they could be used for close ups on the details of the main outfits/costumes. But as it is this book is still very loved and a great present for anyone of any age into designing female characters and/or fashion.

I wish I'd known about this years ago! One of my favourite pastimes is doodling clothes. I have so many ideas that I like to get down on paper quickly. This little book takes the guesswork out of proportion. There are fine blue figures in a lovely variety of poses. These don't transfer if photocopied so that the final sketch is only visible. I use a black pen and jot down as many ideas as possible. I'm not using it to work on a collection, more as a memoir. It could easily be used to put together a collection and the pages are easily removed. The variety of poses suggest different ideas and details. There are also a few lines at the bottom of each page to write down details, material ideas etc. At the back there are feet and head images to use for accessories.The paper is quite thick and my pen has not bleed through the pages. I am so happy with this book. It has thick, quality paper with elastic to hold it closed.

Lovely gift

This is suited to someone who is interested in designing solely women's wear, shoes and accessories. The croquis are all female mannequins of standard model proportions - no children, and no plus size figures either.The first part of the sketchbook (from recollection as it was returned) had a section relating to measurements, International standards, fabric composition, fashion terms etc. There was a 'receipt' pocket at the back.The vast majority of pages were made up what seemed to be 4 full figure poses repeating over the pages (from recollection front and back per page) with a shorter section on feet for shoe design and heads for head attire or possibly make up, although the faces already had lipstick and eyeliner so I'm not sure how useful they'd be to a wannabe makeup artist.Overall my recipient and I felt that this was somewhat limited in its use to anyone other than a designer who wanted to specifically draw womens wear and the general feel was that this was aimed at a teen to young adult audience although I'm sure many would be designers would disagree.The positive aspect to this book is that the pages are perforated and would allow you to tear out designs to add to mood boards or specification sheets, and from what I've read elsewhere the pale blue of the croquis outline is pretty much invisible when scanned or photocopied - although neither the recipient nor myself tried it out as the item wasn't deemed suitable for what he wanted.I note from others that they were disappointed that there were no templates, I think it would be a relatively simple matter to adapt the constituent croquis with ink and then remove them before using a laminator for reuse through conventional tracing, although I'd question whether or not there would be any copyright issues involved first.It's not an obviously girlie notebook so if you are male and into fashion design - womens wear then it won't be obvious to the world that is what you are doing with this notebook.All in all had it have been suitable it would have been perfect but we felt that it didn't quite offer the variety of body shapes (he is designing mens wear I discovered) we needed and so sadly had to return.

Excellent product Excellent seller

Oh wow!!! Love it. I sketch all the time! Clear sketching over feint model poses, doesn't interfere with your designing.It helps you to sketch more in proportion with your ideas.Great price too. Good for me being a designer teacher, I sketch womens clothes, also shoes as I do both. So its an invaluable tool for me.I would 110% recommend this. Its neat looking.Easy to carry in your bag too. Well,... I just had to add this on that I have had about six of these sketch books in total they are really worth the value and price! Just to add on I've had about 5 of these sketch books now!

It’s a lovely book to give as a gift. My daughter loves it. She has designed some lovely outfits. It’s a good book if someone is interested in starting to learn to draw it’s got helpful tips in it too.

I love this as it give a good shape to create designs I love the idear of just the faces so you can create hats too iblovecit