Handbags: Fashion Drawing and Illustration (Online Short Course)

This practical course will show you how to learn to draw and render handbags. You will learn to sketch and effortlessly put your designs onto a paper. You will learn how to draw variety of handbags from different angles. The course will explore different techniques of using double sided art markers and colour pencils for successful marker rendering.
This course is suitable for absolute beginners and more experienced designers who would like to improve their existing skills.

The course will address:

• Free hand handbag drawing
• Different silhouettes
• Drawing bags from different angles
• Basic shading techniques
• Highlighting with markers
• Full colour marker rendering
• Rendering leather, patent leather, suede, canvas etc.
• Drawing details

By the end of the course you will develop the skills to draw and render your own handbags with confidence and effectively communicate and present your design ideas.

Why choose an LCF online learning short course?

Our online learning short courses allow you to experience London College of Fashion wherever you are in the world. The real-time chat sessions are fully interactive allowing you to communicate easily with the tutor at the same time as fellow students. You will participate in the live classes each week and you will undertake weekly assignments to be completed in your own time.

Online learning:

Please make sure you are available to participate in the live online chat sessions which are run to UK time.

All online learning courses include weekly chat sessions with your tutor and other students on the course, which are conducted through an interactive seminar (called Blackboard Collaborate). The chat sessions will include text and voice/video chat, as well as an opportunity to 'share' your tutor's desktop so that s/he can navigate you through websites, powerpoint presentations and other work. These sessions are essential to attend each week, so please check the times of the course when you book and take into account any local time differences.

You may also be required to undertake weekly assignments between sessions. These will be housed on our Workflow website, along with additional resources and discussion forums which can be used to interact with fellow students in between classes. You may be expected to dedicate between one - two hours a week to these self-study projects. A full technical specification is listed in 'Materials'.

Level: Beginners. The course is suitable for absolute beginners and more experienced designers who would like to improve their existing skills.

Booking:

Please book as early as possible. This will allow us enough time to provide you with login for the online short course learning software.

When making your booking do not tick the 'If you DO NOT hold a UK/EU/EEA passport click here' box as this is only relevant for classroom courses. If we send you an email telling you to present your passport to us, please ignore this email, as it does not apply to you.

If no dates are available for this course please '"Make an enquiry'" using the link below and we will contact you when new dates are published.