Menswear

Recommended Lesson Order
Start by viewing “How to Measure the Male Body.” Downloadable charts and diagrams listing all 93 points of measurement are provided for reference. You will also learn how to draw a male croquis figure and how to illustrate your drawings in various poses, rendering different prints and patterns. Then, start compiling a series of blocks or slopers which will become the foundation for many of your men’s designs, such as shirts, pants and jackets, beginning with, “Drafting a Men’s Upper Body Block,” then “Drafting a Men’s Sleeve Sloper”. Complete your sloper library with “Drafting a Men’s Trouser Block.”

Concurrent with the above, learn the fundamentals of male proportions and how draw a male fashion croquis. Start with “Drawing the Male Standing Pose”, then “Drawing a Male Contrapposto Pose,” before moving on to “Ink Drawing the Male Fashion Figure” and “Ink Drawing the Male Fashion Face.”

For executing your first Intermediate menswear lesson, “Drafting a Men’s Shirt Block,’ you will use your Upper Body Block and your Men’s Sleeve Sloper. From there you will use your Men’s Shirt Block for the “Drafting a Men’s Hoodie” lesson. To execute ‘Drafting a Men’s Pleated Trouser,” you will use your Men’s Trouser Block as the foundation for this lesson.

Once you have mastered drawing the male fashion croquis, you are ready to learn how to illustrate and render plaids and patterns. Start with “Drawing & Illustrating the Male Frontal Pose” and “Drawing & Illustrating the Male Back Pose”. Then, move on to learning how to render with our, ”Rendering Plaid,” “Rendering Herringbone,” and “Rendering Camouflage” lessons.