As a fashion designer you are expected to be able to use illustrator to draw your technical flats. This is a much better way of drawing flats as you are able to make them more accurate and also once you can use the program its a much faster way of doing it.
After studying fashion design for almost two years now, I am still yet to learn how to use this program and drawing my flats by hand has been seriously letting my work down. There is a requirement of 10 flats for my current project BRAND X GENERATION so this morning I thought it was finally time to learn how to use illustrator. I did this by using the help of www.lynda.com which is a website that gives video tutorials on almost anything a fashion student would need to know about technology, so I played the video on a computer at university and then tried to follow along on my laptop. I did struggle at first but as I can already use Photoshop and InDesign I could recognise a lot of the tools which did help. The first flat I attempted was a basic shirt and I did this by using a template from Lynda.com and then following along to the tutorial. This was easy and didn’t take me long as it was such a basic shape. Then using the same template, I attempted a button down shirt it was a little bit more complicate but helped me learn more tools, even though I found myself repeating a lot of steps because I kept making mistakes.
I felt both flats came out quite well in the end but obviously they still need improvement as these are only my first attempt. I think the next step is to find a garment online and try to create that into a flat without following a step by step tutorial. I now feel confident in my ability to move forward and use illustrator for flats rather than do them by hand.
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