This is especially cool if you have a custom dress dummy.
I'm not that good with sketches. The outfit looks gorgeous on paper because my human form sketch is a size 0. Now how would that outfit really look on me?
I took a digital picture of my dress dummy. Then I downloaded a free picture-to-sketch program (http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Animated_GIF_Editors/Photo_to_Sketch_Download.html). Turned the photo into a sketch, uploaded it to my free image viewer (http://www.faststone.org/), whited out the black marks in between and voila!
(http://i34.tinypic.com/16axx8k_th.jpg)
I used the "print this picture" in Microsoft in the Picture Tasks bar to print out multiple images on one sheet of paper:
(http://i34.tinypic.com/npm3hy_th.jpg)
Soooo happy!
Thats a good idea! I think several programs have the same idea.... Like in Photobucket they have the editing program that you can use to turn any image into a sketch or painting, etc. I think if you used that in the same manner and also whited out any markings, you'd end up with the same or a very similar idea.
Good thinking though! That was the first I had ever heard of anyone using their own dress form and turning it into a blank sketch form.
Great idea!
I tend to use the Threads Croquis Family: http://www.taunton.com/threads/pages/t00147.asp You can choose one best suited to the figure you are fitting (and blokes and kids as well as different female figures!), and I find it very useful for both modern and historical dress.
Photobucket has that feature? *smacks forehead* I have a free account there. Never bothered to check. I didn't know about the Threads sheet either. :D
/on Startrek/
I love options!
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