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3^rd edition

9 Heads is a comprehensive introduction to the basics of modern fashion drawing, showing how to master the techniques for drawing the modern fashion figure (the nine-head croquis), fashion silhouettes and constructional and design details of modern garments. It is also a detailed reference guide that shows how to draw the wide range of fashion details that are the components of modern fashion garments and accessories.

Published to coincide with the release of Colors for Modern Fashion, this new edition is completely updated, and extensively revised and expanded, with detailed levels of technical information and in-depth explanations of techniques for showing fit and drape in clothes-on-the-figure. Now with well over 2000 drawings, many of them completely new, for the first time chapters on Men and Children are included, with extensive information on drawing men and children and men and children's modern garment silhouettes and flats, together with hundreds of examples.

Among the topics covered in this new edition of 9 Heads are:

• The nine-head fashion croquis — the foundation for all good fashion drawing.
• How to draw the modern fashion figure — women and men — including hair, hairstyles, faces, hands, feet, different racial/ethnic characteristics and different body types.
• How to draw fabrics.
• How to draw flats, the technical drawings used in the manufacture of modern garments.
• Encyclopedia of Details — how to draw hundreds of fashion details.
• Interviews with major designers and illustrators.
• An Appendix with hundreds of examples of modern women's fashion garments as well as diagrams to show how specs are prepared for women's and men's garments.

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