If you’re a teen fashion enthusiast with a savvy sense of style and passion for designing clothes, there is a dedicated course for you to make your fashion design dreams a reality!

This 16-hour (8 sessions x 2 hours) full fashion design course for beginners is a comprehensive guide to design and illustration styles that will prepare you to be a creative fashion designer. You will gain knowledge on both traditional sketching and up-to-date design concepts to jumpstart your portfolio. You keep track of your progress in your “design journal” where you compile your original sketches as you progress through the lessons.

Experienced fashion designer and architect Rita Nicolas will not only share her expertise but also her experiences as she struggled with freehand drawing at the start of her career. Lessons are structured to combine both theoretical and realistic approach to fashion design, and can be taught either in your preferred language: Arabic, English, or a combination of both.

What you will learn:

• Accurately sketch a 9-head croquis fashion figure
• Get familiar with fabrics and garments
• Employ fashion theories
• Understand its historical perspective
• Apply the elements and principles of design in a creative process

Course Outline:

• Lesson 1: The introduction to the world of fashion design
• Lesson 2: Hands-on learning on how to draw the fashion mannequin figure
• Lesson 3: Exercises to demonstrate the human anatomy and its role
• Lesson 4: How to render different styles, textures, shapes and gestures
• Lesson 5: Garments and the way to illustrate them on a male or female fashion figure
• Lesson 6: Sharpening of drawing skills on different fashion poses
• Lesson 7: Colors and creation of a new fashion profile
• Lesson 8: Themes, surroundings, and effects
• Lesson 9: Starting of a portfolio design
• Lesson 10: Creation of a collection to enrich your portfolio
• Lesson 11: Implementation of the design and fashion approach
• Lesson 12: Final analysis and critic