This module empowers students with necessary skills and confidence to excel in fashion design by focusing on both digital and traditional skills. Through hands on practice and feedback, students build a portfolio of digital fashion illustrations, demonstrating creativity and adaptability. Additionally, they learn essential techniques such as creating mood boards, sketching, and digitizing drawings. Students combine digital tools with traditional meth odds and stay abreast with industry trends. This holistic approach ensures students emerge as versatile and innovative illustrators, ready to thrive in the dynamic world of fashion.
- Teacher: Clarisse Umuhoza
FADDI501: Digital Fashion Illustration (90 Learning Hours / 9 Credits)
Welcome to Digital Fashion Illustration, a module in the TVET Certificate V in Fashion Design program. This course equips learners with necessary skills and confidence to excel in fashion design by focusing on both digital and traditional skills. Through hands-on practice and feedback, students build a portfolio of digital fashion illustrations, demonstrating creativity and adaptability. Additionally, they learn essential techniques such as creating mood boards, sketching, digitizing drawings, and producing technical drawings according to industry standards.
Create a mood board
Learning Outcome 2:Create fashion sketches
Learning Outcome 3:Digitize the fashion sketches
Learning Outcome 4:Produce technical drawings for fashion sketches
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- Teacher: Clarisse Umuhoza
The Digital Block Pattern Making module (FADDP501) equips fashion design learners with the technical expertise to digitize garment construction using specialized computer-aided design software. Over 100 learning hours, students master three core competencies: drafting digital block patterns by setting up virtual workspaces, applying measurement charts, and adding critical details like seam allowances, notches, and grainlines; performing digital pattern grading by calculating grade rules and generating accurate size-ups and size-downs; and executing digital marker making to optimize pattern layouts according to production orders, maximize fabric yield, and prepare print/plot files. Ultimately, this module bridges creative design with industrial apparel manufacturing, ensuring precision, efficiency, and sustainability in pattern production.
- Teacher: Clarisse Umuhoza
The Men’s Suit module equips learners with the knowledge and practical skills required to design, pattern, cut, construct, fit, finish, and evaluate men’s suits. Learners study suit styles, body measurements, fabric and material selection, pattern drafting, garment construction, fitting and alterations, pressing, finishing, and quality control. The module also develops learners’ ability to produce a well-fitting, high-quality, and professionally finished men’s suit.
- Teacher: Benitha Iratuzi
- Teacher: Valentine Umutesi