Sketching the outlines (without going over the edges!) My design process in 3 steps Gone are the days of me using paper, pens, pencils and inks to sketch out designs. Like most other aspects of my designer work, computers have taken over. Not that I dislike using traditional methods, but I was never the best at drawing or drafting. These days I use several different pieces of software to get my finished artwork online. But even with the ease and efficiency of these, a pen and paper is where I start - rough sketching quickly helps get the ideas in focus and then I can finesse and finalise them at later stages thus: Sketch, 3d Render, Final Garment After some rough sketching is down on paper, a more refined sketch is produced with a touch of colour using Adobe Illustrator and a scan of the sketch. Then on to a 3d render. I use a few different programs for this - Marvelous Designer is a 2D to 3D render program that converts 2 dimensional pattern pieces into a 3 dimensional
