Learn the Soulful 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. *** originally posted in 2015, these classics are STILL at the top of my list! As a 25-plus years fashion design professor and former student before that, I’m finally, answering “that” question. HERE THEY ARE: the 9 […]
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TOMBOW BRUSH TIP MARKER IS A CLASSIC When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Tombow brush tip markers bring a rich, organic constrasts and drama to the fashion sketch. When we are aiming for mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition, we can use a bold, dark color: Holding our pen more vertically with a
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FRESH PERSPECTIVES FOR FASHION DRAWING THROUGH LIVE SESSIONS (VIDEO ENCLOSED) For now, I’m not using LIVE MODELS for my fashion drawing sessions on zoom, because I am obsessed with curating posed leotard figures for the warmup period at the beginning, and BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES and poses for the longer drawings. WHAT MAKES A DRAWING SESSION “LIVE”?
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Model Drawing , art suppies, figure drawing…. (VIDEO Below) MODEL DRAWING is so much more than you think, until you’ve taken the deep dive. INITIATION I never realized what a world I was opening into, of expression, exploration and discovery, as when I started taking model drawing classes. (below, alcohol marker and Sharpie Ultra Fine
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My first job interview as a fashion designer was to be a fabric and print stylist at Gap Inc, and I was asked to complete a project for my interview where I created a color palette and group of fabrics for two seasons, transition from summer to fall, and fall. In today’s video, I share
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Fashion Sketchbook (VIDEOS enclosed): Adding Color to the Croquis (originally posted October 2013) Back to the Fashion Croquis Book! Another day, another fresh start to try new things, creating in the dream of life…. –and celebration! I’ve been reviewing the final layout and text for my BOOK!!!! I have to say that when I opened
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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 illustrations, which means to also introduce your to your 4 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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the Fringes of Fashion Illustration Just two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about movement, and when I was done, I couldn’t stop thinking about drawing fringe!!! At the same time, I’m tickled to think how MOVEMENT, FRINGE, and DRAWING are all words with double meanings that mean a lot to me. KNITWEAR and
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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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PLUS SIZE Fashion Illustration Tutorial How do we define plus size fashion Illustration? …I’m using the term “PLUS SIZE FASHION” ;widely used out there. BUT, even the tallest, skinniest models are “plus size” compared to the way so many fashion illustrators and designers are drawing. BEAUTY, AESTHETICS, FUNCTION and PROPORTION in ACTION “Plus size”
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