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Fashion Model Drawing Class! (check out the whole intensive program here!) Subscribe to website for free learning materials to get started fashion model drawing class: sketching AND designing. THIS FASHION MODEL DRAWING CLASS Webinar HAS EXPIRED BUT CHECK OUT THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS BELOW! SUBSCRIBE to my youtube channel to keep in the loop! Several video […]
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Want to join a Fashion Design Sketch community Online? Fashion Tribalistas Facebook Group is my free, online community for beginner to advanced fashion sketchers to share their sketches with a positive, supportive and diverse community. Just click the link and then “join” to be admitted to the group. Not a place for promoting YOUR fashion
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It’s time to take your ideas, your message, your feeling, your style… and bring it to life on paper…. Fashion School: Sketching Flats for Fashion Design In design studios, fashion flats are HUGELY important. Sketching illustrations with swatches in full color and posed models has its place and does so much to bring “life” into
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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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INSTAGRAM for FASHION -LOVE! ( My instagram for fashion feed is embedded here at the bottom of the page using an awesome “instagram feed” plugin!) Scroll down to see my recent posts right here! My video loaded with everything I learned while I tripled my instagram following in a month while euphorically harnessing the many tricks and tools that beginners
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SHADING FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Shading is what gives depth, dimension, and 3D form to your fashion illustraitons- it is easier on the eye, and by its very nature even adds texture, emphasizes details and layers. Also, shading won’t let you get away with drawing emaciated, super skinny distorted figures (skinny is fine, but not skinner than
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MY LOVES!!! LET’S TALK about the role of CONTOURS in FASHION ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES! …..Edges, curves, textures, and lines. “Contours” are turning, winding edges. CONTOURS are something I refer to A LOT. Once you get into discussing visual arts and drawings, it is a vital word. Specifically, CONTOUR refers to outlines, and edges. For fashion design
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Sketching Fashion Figures, or any figure, in profile, always seems to present unique challenges. The most common problem is that the figures become too thin when rotated into profile, and that we don’t understand what the anatomy is doing. I’m here to help you with that today. There’s also a video in this post, to
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Design and Communication… Do you FREEZE UP when you approach a blank page? Here we have a heart-to-heart…. sometimes we avoid what we most want or most need to do. This can be the video camera, the sketchbook, the illustration board, the fashion show, the portfolio, the radio broadcast, podcast, phone call…. There’s so much
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Remember the Claire McCardell Museum Visit post? Remember the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Museum Visit? Did you enjoy Tamara de Lempicka’s luscious paintings and carefully sculpted forms? I love a day at the museum, and strive to remember that fashion is, or can be, art. I always feel reminded of that when my neighbors from Bangladesh
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I’ve heard many say they were traumatized by their fashion studies. I might be one of them. But art and design study has all of the potential to be an experience of pure grace. Observing art and design delights, inspires, moves us and improves our lives. CREATING art and design aligns us with being open
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FASHION ILLUSTRATION CLASSES: what do I need? Hello Gorgeous Visionaries! A crop of new videos up on my YouTube channel: Informational and inspirational, I thought this week’s topics (fabric, paintbrush, message) might be really helpful for you if you are considering fashion design schools or courses for your design portfolio. I’ll release two a day until
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