Fashion Designers
The Skill Every Fashion Designer Must Learn
Without a doubt, learning how to draw flats is the #1 most important skill fashion designers must learn. Flats are a culmination of all your knowledge about design, proportion, fabric, and construction poured into a technical illustration. These flats templates and this video were created to help you practice drawing flats, whether you draw them by hand or on the computer using Adobe Illustrator or similar software.
Link to my flats templates listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/570186907/fashion-flats-templates-female
DRAWING FLATS PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwQq1-SdsNvakEEsLmH8jPFTVWIXcOnFX
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/zoehong
This is my etsy store where I sell coloring pages, fashion figure templates, flats templates, tech pack templates, and practice packs.
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http://zoehong.tumblr.com
https://www.facebook.com/zoehongteaches
https://www.pinterest.com/zoehong/
All by boards are reference for my students/viewers.
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Zoe Hong
November 8, 2017 at 4:01 pm
Please LIKE this video if you want more videos on flats and let me know in the comments if you want me to post male flats templates and kids flats templates in my etsy shop!
Madness Ends
November 8, 2017 at 5:04 pm
Zoe Hong thank you so much Zoe! I am definitely gonna buy these later this week. I would be so thankful if you could please post male templates! Please, please do so. Drawings flats is something I have so much trouble doing still. And since I mainly design men’s clothing, your templates would help me immensely. As always great video! Your channel is always so informative and in-depth in it’s lessons.
NFA_STYLES
November 8, 2017 at 4:52 pm
Great video as always Zoe im a fashion student fra Denmark Europe, and i would LIKE to see more videos about men’s flats what Lines is different from women’s flats ?
Kind regards Nikolaj
Zoe Hong
November 8, 2017 at 5:10 pm
The body shapes are entirely different and require different shaping seams. Men’s bodies don’t require bust darts, for example.
Zach T
November 8, 2017 at 4:57 pm
You just reminded me of all my homework I have to do today for my flats class. 4 in class based on two real garments and then 6 from photos and then all transferred to bond paper and 4 are inked. Plus a 10 picture vocab packet. Yay me
Zoe Hong
November 8, 2017 at 5:11 pm
Get to work! 😀
Zach T
November 8, 2017 at 4:58 pm
Also, could you do a video explaining the difference between a stylized fashion flat and a manufacturing flat?
Zoe Hong
November 8, 2017 at 5:14 pm
There are 2 kinds of flats: a quick, rough design flat just to get the idea down on paper and a fully detailed out, properly proportioned manufacturing flat. Flats are technical, fashion figure illustrations are expressive and stylized.
Ela Elena
November 8, 2017 at 5:00 pm
Omg this is Genius! I’m so buying it (I’m the one who bought your entire Etsy shop lol). Btw in my beginnings I was doing front darts that ended at the bust apex. I learned it was wrong… the hard way 😂😂
Zoe Hong
November 8, 2017 at 5:14 pm
Hello, my favorite shopper! hahaha~ Yeah, cone boobs are a very…specific…look…hahaha~
Jackie Walrond
November 8, 2017 at 5:30 pm
Hi Zoe
Can you believe I’m a BA (HONS) Fashion and Textiles Graduate and I’ve had to take extra class in illustrator because there was so much work we had to cover so they SLIMMED over this module!!!!!!!
When looking for work whats the first thing I noticed, photoshop and illustrator needed!!!!!!!
£9000 already spent and I still have to go on another course
Can you please do
Jackie Walrond
November 8, 2017 at 5:34 pm
Pt 2 can you please do some more videos on how to use illustrator I’ve seen the ones you have done but can you give a class on how to do a jacket from beginning to end with pockets, zips
Jackie from London xx
Love your vids
NotAName
November 8, 2017 at 6:01 pm
8.5×11 and A4 are basically interchangeable
Eddie Mendez
November 8, 2017 at 6:06 pm
Hi, Zoe! Stupid question. I bought your female fashion illustration templates yesterday. When I go to print, what should I change the settings to? I printed them out and they came out really small.
Zoe Hong
November 8, 2017 at 6:12 pm
They should be formatted for 8.5×11″ at 300dpi but all the images are set narrow enough to print on A4 without changing any settings. You should be fine just printing at 100%.
Touti Frutti
November 8, 2017 at 6:44 pm
‘friendly neighborhood over caffeinated fashion design and illustration professor zoe hong’
I screamed, best description ever!
Zoe Hong
November 9, 2017 at 5:34 am
I know, I know, it’s a little misleading, as I am not that friendly and I literally live on the other side of the world (you’re in Greece, right?)…
Touti Frutti
November 9, 2017 at 8:39 am
Yes, I am!
Xitlali Quinn Dobbs
November 8, 2017 at 8:03 pm
AHHHHHHHHH!!! I’m overwhelmed with excitement because I have been trying to figure out what flats are in depth! My sewing teacher keeps pointing me at Vogue’s flats/blocks but I’m a beautiful trans-feminine woman 🧑🏻😅 so I need to figure out how to make my own
Karen Nast
November 8, 2017 at 9:18 pm
Just bought the templates! Thank you!
Zoe Hong
November 9, 2017 at 5:34 am
Thank you!
Rishon Hislop
November 8, 2017 at 9:21 pm
Could you teach us how to draw one of those flat templates?
Zoe Hong
November 9, 2017 at 5:34 am
It’s in the drawing flats playlist.
Andrés P. R.
November 8, 2017 at 9:42 pm
Can you PLEASE make a template for male figures? I would buy it immediately!
Zoe Hong
November 9, 2017 at 5:38 am
It’s the next etsy listing I’m working on!
Darnell Lyons
November 9, 2017 at 2:07 am
I love this!
Jose Rosales
November 9, 2017 at 6:16 am
Zoe Hong
I️ have been a fan for ever
Wanted to take a moment to tell you how much I️ appreciate the help you provide to all of us students
This is my last semester for my BA in FD and my anxiety was crazy during my production classes but I️ always knew that I️ could turn to you for flats and sketches
You are amazing and you have saved my life
I️ love you Zoe Hong
Dulce Barrera
November 9, 2017 at 4:40 pm
Yes please note flats templates.
Ha Pham
November 9, 2017 at 6:00 pm
omg can you PLEASE make a video on fiber optic fabrics?
Mr. Fluffy Knuckel
November 10, 2017 at 3:50 pm
I just got this and I just know it’s going to be such a lifesaver in preparation and application for college. Thanks, Zoe!!!