9 Heads: A Guide to Drawing Fashion by Nancy Riegelman Book Review 5 Stars

9 Heads: A Guide to Drawing Fashion by Nancy Riegelman Book Review 5 Stars

A few months ago, I checked out the 9 Heads Fashion book. I found it to be very useful. This book covers modern day fashion. It shows you all the latest trends. The first chapters focuses on drawing the 9 heads croquis. In the fashion world, it is fashionable for the sketch croquis to have 9 heads proportions. His entire body must be at least 9 heads long. This gives a long, elegant look.





Interesting enough, the 9 heads croquis is simply an ideal form. Somehow, in the real world, they manage to create women with the 9 heads proportions. This is obviously an unnatural form. Regardless, the skinny dummy is only for fashionable drawings. It does not represent a real woman. The writer of the book made lots of emphasis on that.

Anyhow, the rest of the book focused on dress design. It gave you an entire list of flats for you to create your own style. The flats had no fancy colors or patterns. The fabrics are a trademark of fashion artist. Speaking of which, this book shows you a few sample works of several fashionable artists. One of the featured artists focused on baby clothing. They were all pretty cute.

This book has a few specialized chapters. The first chapter focused on men's fashion. Men's tuxedo do not require many pages. All fashion books agree that men's fashion is lame and unimaginative. There is very limited room for creativity. Taking female fashion into consideration, most men attires cannot be too flamboyant without looking too girly girl. Anyhow, they showed you a few fashionable tuxedos, sports wear and casual wear.

The second special chapter focused on children's wear. They show you that children do not need the 9 heads proportions. They must look like regular children. The baby fashion croquis is pretty simple and meant to look like a regular babe. Their attires must be made small and cute. In this section, they also show you how to draw a pregnant 9 heads dummy. They show you how draw fashionable clothing for women with child.

The last special chapter focused on wedding dresses. Wedding dresses are a big deal in the fashion industry. The sample dresses were elegant and flamboyant. Others had pretty odd designs. Overall, this 9 heads fashion book was very useful. I recommend it to all who wish to learn how to draw fashion. I must warn you the book is like 100 bucks. The earlier editions are a bit cheaper. The third edition is only 30 bucks, used. In any case, 9 heads deserves 5 stars rating.