WHAT WE ARE DOING

WHY WE ARE DOING IT

Drawing a croquis of our designs

Understand our bodies as shapes, lines, and volumes

ACTIVITY MATERIALS

1st

30 mins

ACTIVITY STEPS

Stand in front of a mirror. On paper or use a digital drawing tool, sketch your body using only basic shapes. Think: structure, not appearance.

or

You could take a photo of yourself and either draw on white paper layered on top of your computer or tablet screen, or print the images and trace over the images of yourself using basic shapes and outlines (use tracing paper).

ACTIVITY STEPS

2nd

5 min

Scan and upload your drawings, and lighten them so you can easily draw over them. These are your croquis! For future fashion drawing exercises, you can either print out these drawings or use the computer screen/digital drawing methods to draw over these figures.