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A Handbook of Costume Drawing: A Guide to Drawing the Period Figure for Costume Design Students [Paperback]

Georgia Baker (Author)

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Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Focal Press; 2 edition (Mar 29 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240804031
ISBN-13: 978-0240804033
Product Dimensions: 28 x 21.6 x 1 cm
Shipping Weight: 408 g

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #392,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #45 in Books > Arts & Photography > Fashion > Commercial

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Perfect for students of costume design and history, A Handbook of Costume Drawing illustrates and describes the dominant male and female costume silhouettes for major historical periods ranging from Egyptian dynasties through the 1960s. Important details, including head and footwear, hair styles, fashion accessories, shoulders, waist, hem, and neckline are provided to maximize the historical accuracy of each design and to help you fully recreate the look and feel of each period.

Teaches how to draw a well-proportioned human body

Discusses the differences in fit between historical and contemporary clothing

Explains how to develop a stunning portfolio

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This book presents visuals that will help the designer produce images reflective of a specific time period. Students of costume design and costume history will learn how to "see accurately." Important information, including head and footwear, hair styles, shoulders, and waist, hem and necklines, are detailed to maximize the historical accuracy of each design and fully recreate the look and feel of a period.This new edition incorporates several important chapters covering topics such as:7 Drawing from the Source: Period Garments as a Three Dimensional Form. Students' skills are polished by drawing from mannequins in period garments, including both fitted and draped garments.7 Understanding color- including the color wheel and the understanding of value, saturation and the relativity of color.7 The Use of Computer Technology in Costume Drawing- The use of Freehand, Photoshop, and the scanner to add versatility to costume drawing skills.A Handbook of Costume Drawing is the perfect first book for any student of historical costume design.

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Figure 1.1 This diagram shows a method of arriving at correct proportions for the human figure using a rectangle to show proportions of the width and length of the figure. Read the first page

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1.0 out of 5 stars 50 bucks? You have to be kidding!, Dec 16 2003

Victoria Culver (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Handbook of Costume Drawing: A Guide to Drawing the Period Figure for Costume Design Students (Paperback)

I bought this book as a gift. I was stupid enough to throw away the return slip before I realized what I bought. This is a flimsy black and white book that does not show much of any detail. There is nothing from China and Japan and maybe one exaple for every 250 years of history. There are even blank pages throughout the book for no reason. I am still going to give the book because I have nothing else to give but I know the person will be thinking that I"m a cheapskate and will never guess in a million years that I actually spent 50 bucks. I feel like I've been robbed. The reviewer that was the reason I bought the book has obviously only seen one or two books in his/her life.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointed, Jun 29 2000

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This review is from: A Handbook of Costume Drawing: A Guide to Drawing the Period Figure for Costume Design Students (Paperback)

As someone who has "fallen in" to costume design, I was hoping that this would be a great reference that would help me to get my ideas across to my director, but it has done little more than show how to proportion the male and female figures correctly. I was dissapointed in the lack of technical information about drawing fabrics on the human figure. Instead of technique, it gives a very brief overview of what changed in the line of the garments and has a half silhouette on the side of the page to show how the figure changed from period to period. There are several fashion history books availible that have much better overviews and illustrations. Only a few examples on four pages are given for each period.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Really disappointed, May 6 2005

By D. Remington "Costumelady" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: A Handbook of Costume Drawing: A Guide to Drawing the Period Figure for Costume Design Students (Paperback)

This book is lame. It's black and white drawings are sloppy and they don't instruct. There is little or no instructions
This book is way over priced. Stay away from it.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The worst costume rendering handbook I have ever seen, July 18 2010

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This review is from: A Handbook of Costume Drawing: A Guide to Drawing the Period Figure for Costume Design Students (Paperback)

As a student of costume design, a book that has "for students" in its title is marketed right at me. It's too bad no one told the publisher or the author that students do not have $50 to spend on a book that would be better used as toilet paper.

First off, there is no excuse for a professional costume designer having to bring in an illustrator to illustrate the book for them. Costume design is inherently about your ability to create art that helps you communicate your ideas to others. If you can't do that, why are you writing a book telling OTHERS how to manage it? The author's costume renderings are shown in color only as small thumbnails on the front cover of the book and only in black-and-white internally. Given her style of rendering, this is one step down from useless.

The illustrator has made a nice effort, and the silhouettes from the time periods might be useful in a pinch, but there are plenty of costume history handbooks out there which illustrate far more of the range of silhouettes - and cover more than just white-washed portions of European history. I find it both disappointing and hilarious that this book devotes more pages to Ancient Greece than Ancient Rome. How many plays survive from Ancient Greece as opposed to Ancient Rome?

(hint: less than 10)

This book is an extreme disappointment from start to finish. The instructions seem highly hypocritical when viewed in context with the illustrations and the costume renderings on the cover. Instructions to use realistic style and to avoid "wide, cartoon-like" eyes and figures which appear to float on nothing seem wholly inappropriate given the style of the renderings on the cover. I can't help but wonder how the author would react if she saw the work of students who rendered in a style more in accordance with her instructions. One must hope she would at least be gracious about it.

I don't know how much input the author and illustrator were able to give their publisher with regard to these problems, but honestly, far more can be accomplished by going to a search engine and finding free, online tutorials. Perhaps in the future, a blog would be a better venture than a book?

At least those only waste the money of the people who pay for the hosting, and not for those unfortunate enough to stumble across them.

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