Fashion Figure Templates

for Fashion Portfolio

Gigi Morris
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 FOREWORD

The Fashion Figure Templates for Fashion Portfolio is a collection of professionally

illustrated female and male fashion figure templates.

While teaching Fashion Design classes, I encountered many talented students with great
design ideas but have this common complaint But I cant draw! Every time I hear this
complain, I cant help but smile. I had the same complain when I was starting in this industry
as well!

For some individuals drawing and sketching is a natural thing. But despair not if you are not
one of those individuals. Drawing skills is like any other skills it can be acquired, learned
and developed. To learn a skill it takes time, practice and patience. As an educator, I am
faced with the challenge of designing a tool for students to aid them in their fashion design
presentations. The Fashion Figure Templates for Fashion Portfolio came into being
because of my desire to provide students, without refined skills in illustrating, a tool to make
professional looking presentations. Thus, this book is born.

The figure templates found in this book are professionally illustrated, complete with
hairstyles, facial features, etc. Use them like a model form and dress them up with your own
creative fashion ideas. You can re-style their hair, flesh-them out with different racial
features that will suit your design presentations and much more! I have included examples of
work from some of my students who have used this tool in their design presentations. Im
sure you can learn from them. Regardless of the area in the fashion industry you aspire to
there is always the need to learn how to present your fashion ideas successfully and
professionally. Remember, this is a tool your challenge is to develop the skills for learning
and refining this tool to meet your needs.

Good luck and enjoy drawing!!

Gigi Morris

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The Fashion Figure Templates for Fashion Portfolio is a
collection of professionally illustrated fashion figures. The
fashion figures come in a variety of poses.

These fashion figures are perfect for students, especially

beginners in fashion design illustration, to gain confidence
in making drawings necessary for presenting fashion ideas.

The fashion templates range in different poses; from

formal to active to elegant. Students have several choices
for finding the right figure template appropriate for the
fashion attitude of their design ideas.

These collections of fashion figure templates also come as

a CD. The e-figures have transparent backgrounds so they
can be arranged in any presentation without the annoying
square background:

These professionally illustrated e-figure templates can

be adjusted to either 8 heads or 9 heads depending on
the needs of the students in their fashion presentations.
Students can also easily make adjustments to make a
thinner or fuller figure.

These e-figures can be easily used in most Microsoft

Office programs using the drag and drop method!

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How to use the Fashion Figure Templates for Fashion Portfolio

Find the appropriate figure template that would suit your presentation.
1. Using a semi-transparent paper over the impression of the selected figure template;
design and sketch your ideas in free-style. You can also use the aid of a light box.
2. Instead of tracing the whole figure template; use it as a guide while you dress-it-up
3. Practice, practice, practice! Once you have developed your confidence and awareness of
the body form under the clothing, drawing your design sketch will be a breeze.

You can also copy, photocopy and scan them into your computer. Scanned images can be re-
sized and re-proportioned. You can also purchase a CD version of the Fashion Figure
Templates for Fashion Portfolio, which contains e-figures in a transparent background which
can be adjusted into different proportions.

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The Fashion Figure Templates for Fashion Portfolio
at a glance:

SPORTY AND ACTIVE

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CASUAL

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ELEGANT

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FORMAL

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SEXY

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SPORTY AND ACTIVE

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CASUAL

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Here are different hairstyles ideas you can use to style your figure templates. These hairstyles
are designed to fit Vegazz, one of my favorite figure templates.

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Below are some rough sketches of fashion figures templates in the making.

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Dressing the Fashion Figure Template

Illustrated on the following pages are different ways to dress-up the figure. Use the Fashion
Figure Templates for Fashion Portfolio only as a guide. In your design presentation, give
garment detailing such as necklines, trimmings, fabrics, etc., for more emphasis. Learn how
fabrics fold and drape over different figure poses. Remember the rule of balance line. This rule
affects how the fabric will drape on the figure template.

By Ruth Morales.

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Using several templates, create your presentation board. Choose the fashion figure template that
will give personality to your presentation.

Presentation board by Ruth Morales

In your design presentation, try to experiment using different media; different types of paper,
different surface finishes from rough to very smooth, different types of markers such as colored
pencils, water-based paints, and others. Find out what works best for you and gives your
presentation the best finish.

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You can also use the fashion figure template as a guide and give it a different approach. You can
change its hairstyle and finish it with a different facial feature. Heres an example of a figure
template given a different look

By Rebecca Quist

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By Rebecca Quist

By Rebecca Quist

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Using fashion figure templates and giving it a different approach, this presentation board features
apparel lines in floral, stripes and solid groups.

Presentation board by Rebecca Quist

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Heres another approach using the Fashion Figure Templates for your design presentation.

By Polina Olshansky

Presentation Board by Polina Olshansky

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Below is an example of Line Sheet using The Fashion Portfolio Fashion Figure Templates.
Designs are done directly on the e-figures available on CD version using PowerPoint program.

LAS VEGAS FASHION DESIGNERS COOP., INC

LINE SHEET

Style 05-001 Style 05-002 Style 05-003 Style 05-004 Style 05-005

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This page is an example of Garment Spec Sheet that used one of figure in The Fashion Figure
Templates for Fashion Portfolio

LAS VEGAS FASHION DESIGNERS COOP., INC

STYLE #: 05-002

cc2

cc3

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cc1

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GARMENT DESCRIPTION
- Double straps on left shoulders
FRONT DETAILS

- Sleeveless, one-sided shoulder style

The Fashion Portfolio Fashion - Figure Templates
Double straps are ideal
on left for presenting fashion design ideas
shoulder
but can also be used for other purposes. Here is an example of logo development using the
Fashion Figure Template as a basis.
- Bottom hemming is DNTS

- Screen print design on front

BACK DETAIL

- Sleeveless, one-sided shoulder style.

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You can also you the as a basis in creating fashion logos! Heres an example of a logo created
using one of the figure templates from this book.

Logo work courtesy of Kat Esteves

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Here are some examples of Line Sheet using one of the male figure templates from this book.

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Example of a design roadmap created using figure template.

D e s ig n R o a d m a p
S T Y LE 001 S T Y LE 001
-A S T Y LE 002 S T Y LE 003

S T Y LE 004 S T Y LE 005 S T Y LE 006 S T Y LE 007

S T Y LE 008 S T Y LE 009 S T Y LE 010 S T Y LE 011

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Line concept presentation using fashion figure templates from this book.

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More work from my previous students who have used figure templates from this book.

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Presentation board by Maria Bruce

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All the fashion figure templates on this book are owned and copyrighted by your author, Gigi
Morris. I gladly allow you to use them as tools in your presentations as long as you credit and
acknowledged my ownership of the templates in all your work.

I would like to thank and acknowledge the students whose works were featured in this book.
Thank you for all your nice work!

For comments, questions and suggestions about this book, pls. email the me at gigs710@aol.com
or visit my personal website at www.gigimorris.com

Goodluck and thank you for using this book.

Fashion Presentation board by Christina Elizabeth Culver

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