Musicians pull sheets of staff paper when they want to score a tune. Mathematicians use graph paper or number lines. Architects and interior designers have their own specialty gear as well. But fashion designers use a cumbersome mix of tracing paper, light boxes and other tools to create fashion sketches that can ultimately be transformed into chic clothing.
Typically designers use proportional figure templates – “croquis” – placed on illuminated “light boxes” and draw their designs overtop the croquis on tracing paper. The process of creating a final, polished sketch can be time consuming, often involving multiple drawings and layers of tracing paper. Sophisticated Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs are great for 3D renderings of designs, but fashion designers must still produce high quality illustrations and proportional sketches first. Despite the availability of illustration software, proficient hand-sketching ability is still seen as a fundamental requirement of every fashion designer and is an essential means to demonstrate creativity and fashion point of view.
Hokey Croquis believes fashion designers and students deserve tools that can improve the creative process, eliminate the need for rework, and allow for effortless fashion sketching as they establish collections and portfolios.
Our Fashionflat Sketchpad is the first solution of its kind and will revolutionize fashion design. It eliminates the need for light boxes and tracing paper and streamlines sketching. The preprinted female croquis disappear on photocopying or scanning, making it much easier – and faster – to get professional-quality, proportionate designs on paper.
The Fashionflat Sketchpad is the first of many innovative Hokey Croquis products being developed specifically for fashion design. Watch for our other clever design tools soon to be introduced. Our mission is to put professional quality fashion design tools in the hands of aspiring and professional designers, helping you get your creative concepts on paper efficiently. Effectively. Gorgeously.