If you want to learn how to sketch and be a great fashion designer, this course is for you. Hello, my name is Nina via and I'm your instructor. If you have watched my other two courses, how to create a fashion collection, or the other course on pattern making you know that I was an instructor at film fidm, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, where I taught many, many, many classes. This course is on sketching, sketching ideas for fashion design, and even if you don't know how to draw, and you know nothing about sketching, don't worry, I've been in your shoes. I learned sketching while attending fit in New York. In this course we're going to cover new terminology.

We're going to learn new words, such as croakies and plumb lines. Apex and silhouettes and quick sketches and so on. So let's get started. First, we'll start by looking at the human body, if you measure the size of your head, in the average body, there are approximately eight heads in the human body. However, for fashion sketching, we like to extend and stretch it to nine heads. What does that mean?

Let me show you. So, as I just mentioned, in the average body, if you take one head space, there are eight head spaces. However, for fashion sketching, we stretch that body into nine head spaces. This is known as a croaky and we'll talk about that in the next class. We're going to learn how to start Catch the basic croaky and then we're going to give it some shape. Something like this, for example, or like that, and then we're going to put some clothes on them.

Okay, I'll see you in the next class.