Learn the Fine Arts of Fashion Design
Here are my top 9 recommended books for fashion design!(video) Hello Fashion Creatives!! I’m so happy you’re here. As a 25-plus years fashion design professor and former student, I’m finally, answering “that” question: 9 BEST BOOKS for students who are learning Fashion and Design and Illustration!! Except- I’m revisiting this page about ten years […]
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Sketching African Print Fashion by Stella Jean…. Hello! Here I use the Adobe Photoshop Sketch App on my iPad Mini using the 53Pencil stylus, to illustrate this beautiful ensemble by Stella Jean (LOVE)– of course– my love affair with African Prints is now going on 23 years…. Digital Fashion Sketching made it a lot of
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DIGITAL FASHION SKETCHING on iPad…. how did I get from here….. (design on instagram by @by_natacha_baco) Natacha Baco website/ e-shop to here…. on the iPad? Find out, in the video, above or below! The actual slideshow with commentary begins at 4minutes, after my introduction. I use pencil, marker, and brush tools to
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Digital fashion sketching with Tayasui Sketches app There aren’t many apps I enjoy as much as I do digital fashion sketching with Tayasui Sketches app. It’s without fail my number one choice for any beginner or pro getting started with digital freehand fashion sketching on an iPad or tablet. (Tayasui Sketches App isn’t any the
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THE WEBINAR HAS EXPIRED so I’m inviting you into the fashion creative learning experience. I hope you enjoy this video all about fashion design education with me, and ge tto know me a bit. Also, there are tutorials and resources all over this blog! Use the search bar on my home page, browse my recent
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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 (VIDEO LESSON ENCLOSED) In design studios, fashion flats are HUGELY important. Sketching illustrations with swatches in full color and posed models also has its place and does so much
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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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LET’S TALK about capturing FABRIC TEXTURES in FASHION ILLUSTRATION …..Edges, shapes, shadows, curves, textures, and lines. HOW DO WE CAPTURE and COMMUNICATE the texture, surface, and drape of our fashion fabrics when we are sketching fashion designs??? How do we describe the thickness, the fall, the movement, the amount of shine, bumps, smoothness, fuzz, crispness,
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