Fashion and Costume Illustration with Peter O'Brien

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The Workshop

Peter says that he finds the essence of good fashion or costume drawing is an understanding of the body and what the body does underneath the clothes… the tensions and strains the body beneath the fabric produces.

This workshop will involve a series of very fast poses, using newsprint or brown paper with charcoal or crayons… soft and fluid materials.

We will then work on longer poses and Peter will encourage us to work as freely as possible…. using collage, water colour, markers. It should be fun!

Peter will bring some big ball skirts and twinkly things and Eimer will provide some period costumes.