This week, I studied my technical drawings to improve this area in which I felt was one of my weaker sides. There was one area that I really wanted to improve and that was my technical drawings. Not being as confident with illustrator, I do find it hard sometimes to make my technical drawings look professional and clear. One of my tutors advised me how to do it without illustrator. Using different thickness of pens to create a clean and clear idea of details on the garment. By doing this it would make it clear for the pattern cutters to fully understand, and be able to follow clearly your designs without making any mistakes. First wanting to draw something simple with minimal detail so that I could focus on the details and what suits me when drawing. With a piece of clothing that has symmetry such as the bomber jacket, one of my tutors advised me to fold the layout paper in half so then we would be able to trace the exact same shape to get a perfect identical shape on both sides. While doing my drawings I found it hard with the details such as the zip and where the sewing would be. To problem solve, next time when I make a technical drawing for one of my garments, I will make the template of the model bigger so that it easier for me to draw in the details at a bigger scale as I kept making the zip to big on the original size model. I found that focusing on one area that I struggle with really helped me to find my own way of drawing instead of using illustrator. Then taking my drawing to the printer to experiment with scaling of the drawing. By scaling down the image it makes the drawing look more professional and clear which you can then place onto a final line up.
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