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Body Language: Model Drawing It’s back! My 5 week Live Figure Drawing/ Model Drawing Program on Zoom, 5 “Fashion Fridays” for learning model drawing (for costume, fashion, design, profession, pleasure or play). We start live 3/8/2024 meeting 6:30=8:30 online. We’ll sketch from standing, posed, expressive figures for 5 weeks and I’ll share everything i […]
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Fantastic Color Blocking Exercise for Fashion Illustration Color blocking is an extremely powerful fashion drawing exercise – Illustration by Laura Volpintesta Color blockYes, you can read this article, but it’s NOTHING without action! I encourage you RIGHT NOW to grab colored pencils (if your paper is smallish like up to letter size) or oil pastel
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Bangs in this fashion illustration, of course, are also a kind of fringe! What comes to mind when you think of fringe? the Fringes of Fashion Illustration Just two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about movement. When I was done, I couldn’t stop thinking about fringe!!! At the same time, I’m tickled to
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DRAWING WITH TWO HANDS Whether for fashion model drawing , which I teach on the regular for several decades now at Parsons School of Design, or for ANY model drawing or any DRAWING at ALL, drawing with two hands i s a powerful exercise that might seem silly “childish” to you at first. But like most
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Rendering Special Fabrics: Surface, Weight, and Texture In celebration of the latest session of FABRIC FORM AND FLOW fashion design and illustration online course,…. Here is some pre-work. A journey into textured and reflective fabric rendering for eveningwear, special occasions and beyond. Today I’d like to share some insights into capturing special fabric textures with various
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MOVEMENT IN FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Movement, what is it? What comes to mind to you when you think about the concept or FEELING of movement, of motion, when thinking of figures and of clothing? What about when thinking of design? MOVEMENT is a “design principle” As much as it describes actual MOTION, “movement” is also a
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Using ADOBE FRESCO for fashion illustration Let’s look in to Adobe Fresco app for freehand fashion illustration on the iPad or any tablet is one of my favorite media for fashion illustration . It’s also simply one of my favorite art forms! I love fashion design and illustration (I graduated Parsons in 1995 and teaching
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I’m passionate about every aspect of the fashion arts from fashion sketching to draping, patternmaking, construction. That’s why I teach ALL of it. For the topic of Fashion Sketching, today I’d like to share some of the variety of art supplies that I commonly use during my live zoom sessions in Fashion Sketch Group. (you
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on variety and possibility The purpose of today’s post is to expose the amount of variety of expression that can come out of just two hours of drawing. I do this every single week at a dedicated time in my Fashion Sketch Group for pure pleasure, over the past few years, and it’s incredible how
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Watercolor wash Technique with Tombow Brush Tip Marker Today’s post is going to look at some of the range and possibilities available to you when you explore watercolor wash with markers for your fashion drawing! *** PRO TIP: Even though I often start with pencil, that doesn’t mean I erase. I almost never erase! It’s
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When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Brush tip markers bring a rich drama to the page when we are aiming for drama, mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition. The wide range of expressions that com out of a single brush pen can be just what you needed to emphasize layers and folds,
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Brown Paper Bag Fashion Sketching (VIDEOS BELOW) Brown Paper bags are toned paper- why not make use of them as such? In Fashion Sketch Group a few weeks ago I sliced up this paper bag into one long panoramic length of paper (with the handles on both ends) and sketched the model poses across it.
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