Fashion Sketchbook

Fashion Sketchbook: with STUDIO, 7th Edition, is a textbook by Bina Abling that teaches how to communicate fashion design ideas through illustration. Published by Fairchild Books USA, the volume combines step-by-step guidance with over 3,000 color illustrations, diagrams, and runway photographs.

Coverage spans figure drawing for women, men, and children, figure posing, facial features, accessories, and garment details. The text also explains how to prepare technical flats and specifications while introducing methods for rendering color, fabrics, and embellishments.

Designed to build foundational sketching skills alongside advanced rendering techniques, the text incorporates a Visual Fashion Glossary with over 450 garment and accessory references.