Hey everyone!
I am back this week with a review video, and this is a review of a few Fashionary products.
If you don’t know what Fashionary is, I will link down their website and Instagram
so you can check out their products, but it’s basically a fashion sketchbook slash fashion
dictionary slash fashion diary all combined into this one product.
And of course I first want to thank Vikki from Fashionary for sending these products
for me to try out.
I’ve been following Fashionary and Vikki on Instagram for some time now, so when she
messaged me about this, I got so excited.
This product is something I would definitely purchase on my own.
Like a few years ago when I had the interest in fashion design, I couldn’t really afford
the sketchbook yet because I was still in high school, but when I could finally afford
it, I had taken a break from fashion illustrations.
So it just kind of didn’t make sense to purchase the product because I wasn’t doing
fashion illustrations anymore.
But now that I’ve regained my interest in it, I received this message from Vikki, and
it just felt like the best timing.
So yeah!
For the first product in this review, I’m going to be talking about the A4 Fashionary
Sketchbook Women’s edition.
The first few pages of this sketchbook contains the dictionary and diary part of the sketchbook
and it contains heaps of information related to fashion.
Like for example, there’s book recommendations, website recommendations, a list of different
fashion brands, a quick guide on measuring the body, fashion terms such as the different
types of skirts, dresses, shoes, necklines, and bags.
Some of these things I’ve never even heard of before.
And there’s also a fabric dictionary, and different kinds of stiches.
There’s also a section of poses that you can use for your fashion illustrations, and
presentation board samples, and it’s also got a year-at-a-glance diary spread.
So this is the diary part of the sketchbook.
So I feel like this definitely catered towards fashion designers, fashion design students,
or anyone who just has an interest in fashion.
Each page after the dictionary section is pretty much the sketchbook part.
So they have very faint templates that you can use to quickly draw out your design ideas.
So each page has three templates with the same walking pose that we normally see on
runways, and what’s really great about them in my opinion is that you can barely see them.
I mean you can see them in person, but like my camera doesn’t really pick it up as easily
so that tells you that it’s really faint, so it won’t end up ruining the look of your
drawings.
So for the demonstration part of this video, I am drawing a bunch of mermaids in honour
of MerMay.
I thought the templates were a great way to quickly draw mermaid ideas so that’s what
I’m doing.
I mean I like that the templates are there as a guide, but you definitely don’t have
to stick to them.
Like I said, they are light enough that if you want to change the pose of your figure,
you definitely can.
If you want to change the body type of the figure, you also can, but the main purpose
of these templates and why they exist is it makes brainstorming fashion design ideas much
faster because you won’t have to worry about drawing the body first.
We all know that that can take some time, so instead of having to worry about that especially
if you’re in a fashion design class or if you’re working on a project and you’ve
got limited time, you want to be focusing all that time onto generating those ideas
which can end up becoming the final idea for a dress or an outfit that you are going to
make or sew.
So I would highly recommend this sketchbook for any fashion design student, or aspiring
fashion designer.
I mean the quality of this sketchbook is amazing.
The paper is a nice creamy colour and it’s quite thick.
I was expecting the paper to be thin like the Moleskine blank journals, but it’s not.
The paper isn’t made for watercolours, but I love to use watercolours in this sketchbook
because I am able to use both sides of the page.
But you can also use markers and coloured pencils, maybe even gouache, I am yet to try
gouache with this one.
With the markers, however just be cautious because the ink will bleed to the back.
I feel like that’s not such big deal because I mean I have seen other artists use markers
and watercolours on this sketchbook, so I feel like you are able to use markers with
them as well, but you just got to take into consideration that you wont be able to use
both sides of the paper.
And yeah!
The other products that were also sent to me were the Fashionary Postcards with watercolour
paper.
Now this is definitely made for watercolours.
It comes with 15 detachable postcards, and I just love the packaging and pretty much
all of these products – I love how it’s packaged.
It’s got this awesome illustration from Pippa McManus – I don’t know if I’m
saying that right – who by the way, she is an amazing artist.
I also follow her on Instagram.
So seriously you guys, if you haven’t heard of her, you definitely should check her out,
because this illustration like on the cover of this product – this is amazing, but it
doesn’t do justice to her other works.
I feel like anyway, so yeah!
There are also templates lightly dotted on the front of the postcard, and on the back
it just looks like any other postcard.
And I received – for the postcards; I received the one with the female templates and one
with the male templates.
And yeah!
In terms of the quality, I do like the quality of the paper.
It’s nice and thick and didn’t easily buckle.
My only struggle was drawing the face because the template is quite small.
But technically I could just not draw the face or I could use a thinner fineliner so
I feel like that’s not really a problem of the product, so yeah!
And that’s why there isn’t a clip of these paintings because my head just kept getting
in the way when I was filming, so I’m so sorry there isn’t a speed painting of that.
And the last products are the Fashionary Paper Panels, which are designed for production
sketching, so this is an accordion type paper with perforations on each fold so that you
can cut it and place it inside your sketchbook, or just use it for when you want to sew the
garments that you designed.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a use for this yet, but since I’ve now gotten back to fashion
illustrations, I also want to get back into sewing.
I have very basic sewing skills so I want to practice that and hopefully one day be
able to turn my designs into real pieces of clothing.
When that happens, I will definitely, definitely use these ones.
I can see the potential in them.
So what I have here; is I have the women’s flats, which have 162 templates of tops on
one side, bottoms on the other side.
The paper is very thin though so it’s really just for drawing out the clothing that will
then be sewn.
They also include some samples here and a spec sheet at the back.
This is the same for the other paper panel, which is for women’s figures.
This one has 108 templates including the front slash back and the side pose of a fashion
figure.
It also comes with a sample and a spec sheet.
So this is basically a variation of their Paper Panel line.
And yeah!
Overall, I really like their products and will highly recommend them.
Check them out on Instagram at least for inspiration.
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