Draw 500 Fabulous Fashions: A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers Paperback – September 15, 2014

small book-able to take it anywhere, and cute fashions to draw. Maybe a little more "instruction" would be nice.

I purchased this because I wanted to improved on my own sketching/doodling of fashions. I don't aspire to be a fashion illustrator, so I didn't get one of the books aimed at that, but a more casual approach, which I assumed this was, and is. I really cannot recommend it, unless all you want is a small-ish doodle book to carry in a large purse or backpack.Pros: The paper is sturdy. It would hold up to pencils and pens, certainly, water-based markers, probably not alcohol inks like Sharpies, though. It's not suitable for watercolors. The range of "inspiration" illustrations is broad, from tweedy menswear to Rococo-looking ballgowns to sneakers.Cons: My copy arrived with not all the pages properly cut apart; I had to use a blade to cut them apart at the top. Probably 20 pages needed to be sliced apart. (Since I was going to scribble all over the book, anyway, I didn't care about that so much, but still...) I found some of Kuo's illustrations to be a little too cartoony to be all that inspirational, and the use of color was really random. In the "how to use this book" section at the beginning, it says there's plenty of space to draw, but on a number of pages there absolutely is not. Nearly all of the pages have her illustrations dead-center on the pages you're supposed to doodle on, leaving only the margins. In some cases, there's very little space at all. A few pages have the illustrations at the bottom, or an adjacent blank page. (See the photos.) There's just really not enough room to doodle or sketch, which is what this book is FOR.Overall, I'm very disappointed. I am going to keep it, because I think I can work with what's here, plus I already sliced the pages apart, "damaging" it even though it was flawed. I think there are people out there who could find this entertaining to scribble in on the bus on their way to school, but in no way is this for people who are serious about fashion. Even young fashionistas (by "young," I mean grade school-aged) deserve better than this. With more room to sketch, this would have been a much better book.

Perfect! It arrived just on time!

Disappointing. Not a how to draw book at all. Pictures are generic, not at all helpful or inspirational for my little aspiring artists. Will be returning.

I originally bought the author's 20 ways to draw a dress book, which I thought was great and fun to use. I bought this thinking it would be an extension of that book, or possibly stuff that's entirely different. What I didn't expect was to see a smaller book with the exact same drawings from the other book I had already bought. If you've bought the other book, you can pass on this one as the 20 ways to draw is infinitely better.

Nice

This is a super cute little book that feels wonderful to hold. I am the type of person who cares about the way a book feels as much as the content. The paper is heavy and the book feels chunky. The illustrations in this book are just darling! (They are a selection from the book 20 Ways to Draw a Dress) a big version with lots of drawing room. This one is like a little sketch book you can take on the go and doodle and draw in and around the illustrations on each page.

This is just a cheaper way for the publisher to reprint 20 Ways to Draw a Dress --- less paper, no organization, and really not as useful. I didn't see that this was a re-edition of 20...Dress, because it was hidden inside "read more" so I bought both ... and now I have the 20 book, which is organized by category, and has plenty of space to draw, and this little book, which has no organization, and hardly any space to draw at all. A waste of money ... go for the 20...Dresses book while you can, or go for one of the pads with just body shapes, and draw your own styles. Leave this one for the remainder shelves.

Achei ótimo o livro ser compacto. Assim carrego pra onde quiser.

My daughter just loves this book

excellent ,just what I wanted