The Connie Lim Method Part 1

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In this lesson, I’ll walk you through the materials I use in my fashion life drawing practice and teaching. You don’t need expensive tools to draw expressively — what matters most is choosing materials that help you loosen up, observe better, and enjoy the process.

This lesson is about understanding why certain materials work, so you can adapt them to your own style and workflow. Feel free to pause the video, test things out, and make this setup your own.

Connie Lim is a professional illustrator and designer from Los Angeles, California. She has trained at prestigious universities such as Art Center College of Art and Design Pasadena (Illustration, 2008) and UAL’s Central Saint Martins in London (Fashion Design with Marketing, 2013). As an artist specializing in fashion, she merged her two love of illustration and fashion design to create unique and striking images with a strong personal vision.

This course is a stepping stone to your creative drawing journey. By no means are you expected to be amazing drawers by day 1 or even by day 30 (so no pressure to be perfect!). However, I ask you to be open to try new things. You will most likely not enjoy all the sessions that are offered but will find that you prefer some techniques or lessons more than others.

A quick tip before we start the course!

Lines are really important to understand and master! It is the fundamental basic tool we use in our everyday lives to communicate. We write, sketch, draw, doodle to get our ideas down and we do it daily. 

Let’s practice your lines based on the lesson 1.

Get a whatever sketchbook! You have to warm up and stretch before working out doing your exercises. This sketchbook is that warm up. You’er warming up your hand and muscles and practicing the pressure points for your line quality. Try to do this everyday and you will build up your confidence with putting line to page. (Getting over the fear of the blank page!)

An easy way to create form is to duplicate the same shape and connect the corners. See example below. This will be useful when we go over foreshortening. 

Practice your lines into shapes / 3D objects.  

1. Create some shapes (geometric and organic) and turn them into 3D shapes. Think about planes and angles. 

2. Take some reference images or live objects and draw them in flat 2D shapes. Then add your contour lines. Play around with your contour lines and see how manipulating them in different ways and directions can change the overall look and feel of your object. 

In this lesson, we explore the front face in fashion illustration, starting with the skull as the foundation. Understanding the structure beneath the features helps you create faces that are not only proportionate but full of expression, beauty, and style. You’ll learn how to approach the front face step by step, from analyzing anatomy to adding the details that bring your illustrations to life.

In this lesson, we explore the front face in fashion illustration, starting with the skull as the foundation. Understanding the structure beneath the features helps you create faces that are not only proportionate but full of expression, beauty, and style. You’ll learn how to approach the front face step by step, from analyzing anatomy to adding the details that bring your illustrations to life.