Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

Laura Volpintesta BFA Parsons 1995, founded Fashion Illustration Tribe, an educational and community site for fashion design and illustration. 27 years teaching Patternmaking, Draping, Sewing, and Illustration, Portfolio, Concept Development, Tech Design/Drawing and Model Drawing. Moved by a desire to "undo" the unrealistic proportions predominantly used in fashion art and to inspire fashion creatives to get the skills to create their own images for fashion's future. Balancing technical and professional with creative, Laura's online courses and live workshops/ lectures inspire fashion designers from beginner to more experienced to look at sustainability, diversity, positivity, music, celebration, culture, community, and joy in their design processes, business models, images, and messages.

Digital Watercolor Technique on iPad Pro

Digital Watercolor Technique? Digital watercolor technique???   Watercolors aren’t digital!!!!!!! Digital devices can’t even get wet!!!!! I worked with gouache for decades before I tried digital apps for fashion illustration on my iPad. To start, I downloaded a few recommended apps on my iPad mini and played with them. My favorite approach to digital painting, digital

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Learning Fashion Illustration

Learning Fashion Illustration– you’re in the right place for learning fashion illustration! I have courses and a full program even for fashion design and fashion illustration with different focuses for each. And TONS of articles on this site! So stick around, and subscribe! First I’d like to break down the categories and uses for fashion

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Adobe Sketch App Fashion Sketching

Adobe Sketch App (now ADOBE FRESCO app) Fashion Sketching: Step by Step Adobe sketch app for digital fashion fashion sketching is, hands-down, a top pick. I’ve spent a lot of  time inside all of the popular freehand digital painting and drawing apps for iphone, Especially for beginners, AND BEGINNING IS THE HARDEST PLACE TO BE

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Digital Drawing Faces with Imagink App

https://youtu.be/rDWn43aLX6E Digital Drawing Faces: Repaper app examples (formerly Imagink) pssssst……Catch the super-quick timelapse video right here on my instagram page: or youtube tutorial at the top of this  page!!~It shows the process of drawing a face using an app on the iPad, but applies to paper and pencil as well- i used Tayasui Sketches app for

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