Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Creative mindset- support and reminders for fashion artists Welcome, creative fireball! Here are some new videos SPECIFICALLY about learning, growth, self-expression, creative communities, and learning environments. HOW WE FEEL MATTERS. How we learn matters. The environments we create and learn in matter. How we speak to ourselves when we create matters. CREATIVE MINDSET VIDEO 1 […]
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Fashion Croquis Books: Design Development Sketching Where to begin? How do you get started??? What do designers do and what are the fundamentals of fashion design development sketching? What are Fashion Croquis? Croquis books are the most important part of the work I do with my Parsons students and private students here on my platform.
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How to Draw a Fashion Figure: video lesson This is the foundation for so many things we can do! In today’s video, you can get a real feel for the motion and movement of sketching as I let you know step -by-step what i’m doing when I’m drawing the fashion figure. MY method is CUSTOMIZABLE
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HOW TO DRAW TEXTURES IN FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS LET’S TALK about capturing FABRIC TEXTURES in FASHION ILLUSTRATION. Fabric textures as expressed through… …..edges, shapes, shadows, curves, textures, and lines. HOW DO WE CAPTURE and COMMUNICATE the surface, drape and texture of our fashion fabric textures when we are sketching fashion designs??? How do we visually describe
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ADOBE FRESCO APP FASHION SKETCHING https://youtube.com/shorts/vCPIo2QnURc?si=cmt3akfuO0bcOrvG Every week on Zoom I host livestream fashion sketching sessions where members (and myself ) can bring whatever art tools and supplies we want. I curate music and figures, poses (1-20 mins) and fashion images of fantastic garments for us to study, practice, explore and sketch from. TIMELAPSE SHOWS THE
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MUSIC AND FASHION STUDY from my student croquis book, Parsons, NYC, 1995, Laura Volpintesta “Don’t go changing, to try to please me…. you never let me down before….”-Billy Joel My kids are 4, 12, and 13 right now. The older ones, they tell me I have a song for everything, and every situation. They’re right!
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5 livestream fashion design masterclasses from the language of fashion design! Today I’m happy to share with you a bouquet of fashion design masterclasses from my first book, that were livestreamed in 2020. Join me as I read from “The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know”, sharing images, insights, designers,
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Of course you want to be able to learn to draw… You want to learn to draw both realistically, and creatively, and freely. You want to use color, paint, create the same kind of beauty that you see and appreciate around you in nature, art, design around you in the world every day. It moves
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) Toned paper, oil pastel gesture, and graphite lines. Study from live fashion drawing session FASHION drawing from gesture to line I can’t emphasize enough the power of drawing fashion from Gesture to Line. Am I speaking another language ? I’ll explain. The most common approach- and most
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Learning the fundamentals of Patternmaking and Draping are essential to be learned together. STRONG FOUNDATIONS set you up for a lifetime of creative discovery combined with clear technical processes to roll with the pros. Videos on this page!
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Laura Volpintesta, founder, FashionIllustrationTribe.com
