Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Gouache Technique for illustrating fashion- my process 4 GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT!! I’m here to introduce you to my gouache technique for fashion sketches, which means to also introduce your to your four new best friends (besides ME) in fashion illustration!!! While quiet in appearance, these four simple tubes or colors of “goo-AH-sh” […]
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“Finding your style”….. (I’ve included 2 videos at the bottom: one about WHY we do what we do, and another aimed at those who want to design fashion but “can’t draw”. WHY you do it has a lot to do with how your style unfolds!) What does it mean to you? Please chime into the conversation below
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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 drawing? 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. The Croquis
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ROCKPAPERINK………. This year I will be blogging for fashion monthly for my publisher, Rockport, on their website RockPaperInk The column is called Fashion: Global Voices and my first two posts so far discuss AFWNY (Africa Fashion Week New York) and BIFW (Bangkok International Fashion Week), discussing designers and sharing work that I really hope you
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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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What are “fashion drawing proportions” all about? What does it mean to master proporstions for fashion drawing? A lot of people, especially in the old days when i was a student, believed there were rules about how much you had to lie about what a woman’s body can look to be learning “fashion sketch proportions”. This
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What is Fashion Illustration Tribe? This tribe I envisioned 10 (now 13 years ago) in 2013 is inclusive, open, be yourself and come-as-you-are, where -you -are, creative, passionate, daring home for fashion studies. Where we embrace fashion, art, our feminine nature, wisdom, imagination, freedom, creativity, community, and life. We love music, we love humanity and humanness,
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