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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Fashion Illustration about Style.com, Fashion, Illustration with the genre: Arts & Photography, Graphic Design.
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conversations.value: the author is senior fashion editor at Style.com. A fashion historian, curator, and writer, she is the author of Fashion Illustration Next. She lives in New York.
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this story.
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conversations.value: Fashion Illustration
  Be sure that they do not make a hard, laborious job of tracing which will do them but little good. The strokes should be free and easy, with little or no attention given to the likeness.
  This type of figure is quite easy to make and very effective in adverfising or for designing children's dresses.
  The Back of the heel extends to or in front of line of balance. If placed too far forward it will look like a shoe that has been worn for some time. So many artists make this mistake in drawing feet. Drawings made to sell shoes are drawn two or three times the size of the ones shown here, and the artist uses a ruling pen and a french curve to get the smooth lines.
  JOIN a life class and make dozens of two to five minute sketches of hands feet, ears and most of all for a good understanding of the body. You must make the clothing look like it covers a real body, so you must know anatomy.
  I wish to emphasize how necessary it is to first think what you are doing—get out of the habit of scratchy lines. A few well-chosen pencil strokes will be less confusing and show through your finished work, giving crispness and freedom, whether oil, water color, pen and ink or wash
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: If you feel the need of more accurate measurements, use the edge of a large envelope or folded paper. Mark off eight heads, divide one space in halves, one into thirds, one into fourths, or any measurement of which you are in doubt. Use this for a rule and after doing it for a while all measurements needed will become a part of you and your eye will soon know a head, half-head, etc., without the measure.
  On many of these figures I have left off the 2, 4, 6, 8, also the circles. This is so that you will not lean upon them too much and have to count down to know where certain heads and half-heads come. You can learn them in an hour or so, then you will always have them. It isn't difficult; try it, I dare you!
  A little trick I play on myself—and it works—is to place upon my desk, just as I quit for the day, the most interesting page or drawing to be done; this gives me a good start the next morning! Another is, never to stop at a place in your work where you will hate to start again. If you do, you will try to sidetrack it and do something that is pleasant or you like to do and you will put it off for days.
  Have a place to work where you will not have to put all your work and materials away. Getting them out each time has discouraged more beginners than hard problems.
  Any form of work needs a change in tempo, a change in kind or a rest from it. If your work becomes tiresome, walk around the block, read a short story, work in your garden, or do something different, then-come back to it. You will find your drawing will have a new meaning as well as new interest.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: J. C. Leyendecker is making the figures for the House of Kuppenheimer, with broader shoulders, smaller hips and longer bodies; in doing this it makes the heads look too small and it takes a master artist to make them look good.
  Never be discouraged by a spoiled drawing. Profit by it and make the next one better. Our great artists draw and re-draw until they have the drawing right, and that is the reason they are great. In using ink, oils, pastel, watercolor, or opaque, the blocking in is the same.
  The pencil blocking in (or drawing) is for placement on paper, proportions and formation, and after practicing a lot you will find it is not necessary to make a detailed pencil drawing to ink in over.
  It is best not to make the detailed pencil drawing but learn to ink in over your blocking in as shown on opposite page.
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