How to Draw a Fashion Girl [Nike Tennis Outfit] in 4 steps

Create a digital fashion illustration of a girl in a Nike Tennis outfit in four easy steps: sketch the body’s movement, build the 3D structure, add clothing and patterns, then finish with colors and shading in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet

Table Of Contents

STEP 1- Feel the Body Movement
STEP 2- Draw the Body Base
STEP 3- Clothing and Pattern
STEP 4 (FINAL RESULT) – Colors and shading
TIP Increase your pen pressure at each stage.The lighter you start, the more “mistakes'” you can afford.

Hello! It’s Chou-Tac!

I love Product Design Sketching, but also fashion illustration too!

Today is a quick tutorial of a Nike Tennis ware illustration for woman who love sport.
I sketched and rendered in Photoshop and show you the process with the 4 main steps.
(All was done with a Wacom graphic digital tablet):

Step 1 Body movement
Step 2 Body structure
Step 3 Clothing and Pattern
Step 4 Colors and shading (Final result)

Chou-Tac Chung - Nike tennis ware — Steps to draw a Fasion girl with Nike tennis ware – Chou-Tac Chung

STEP 1- Feel the Body Movement

Choose a body with a curvy position.
Identify the line of action

In fashion illustration, curvy body positions give the clothing more life!
Draw very light as we will use this first sketch as a template

STEP 2- Draw the Body Base

Before starting to draw the clothes,
it is essential to draw a simplified form of a ‘naked model’.

Note: Some of you may have learned how to draw fashion models with 2D contours. It is a great method.
However, I recommend approaching it like how cartoon animators draw characters- a 3D approach.
Each part of the body is a simplified volume. For example, an arm would be 2 cylinders connected.

STEP 3- Clothing and Pattern

Add the clothes on the body base.
Erase unnecessary lines to clean the overall, and keep the contours.
Create a new layer below the outlines.
Set your outline layer to: Multiply to see though
Add patterns on the clothes

STEP 4 (FINAL RESULT) – Colors and shading

Choose your color palette. Add flat colors.
Add shading and lighting.

TIP Increase your pen pressure at each stage.
The lighter you start, the more “mistakes’” you can afford.

This quick tutorial on fashion design and illustration is a preview to some of the upcoming tutorials which I will explain and show you step by step on how to:

Draw people
Draw hands
Use Illustrator or Photoshop to create patterns
Use software to draw fashion design
Choose the right graphic tablet and so on!

Nike-Tennis-ware-Sketch-to-Photoshop-rendering-a-Chou-Tac-Chung If you have any questions or things you would like to learn and discover, please let me know in the comments below. It will help me to know you more and adjust the next tutorials to your needs.