Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Welcome, creative fireball. Here are some new videos SPECIFICALLY about learning, growth, creative communities, learning envoironments, What we are called to create, is our desire. What is our relationship to ourself, to our desire, our creative power?? How do containers of time and community affect our expansion? Finally, how can we birth our vision? How […]
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CREATIVE SELF-EXPRESSION: Drawing without Fear [VIDEO SERIES ON THIS PAGE] It’s as-yet unthinkable experience of creative self-expression for many …to draw without fear. BUT NOT FOR YOU! NOT ANY MORE. WELCOME TO DRAWING WITHOUT FEAR! I’m Laura Volpintesta. I’ve been successfully guiding creatives and aspiring designers to DRAW without FEAR for almost 3 decades
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Today I’m happy to share with you a bouquet of fashion design masterclasses, Join me as I read from my book “The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know”…. and we discuss the images and concepts that are fundamental to fashion design and fashion illustration!When I got the book contract, (view
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) I can’t emphasize enough the power of drawing fashion from Gesture to Line. Am I speaking another language ? I’ll explain. The most common approach- and most frustrating- to drawing fashion is flat, dark, clean, “perfect lines” that aren’t so dynamic or descriptive. THIS IS NOT A
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One FANTASTIC Fashion Drawing app can change EVERYTHING! (scroll to bottom for a video example) And for me, that’s Tayasui Sketches app. Oh, I could go on all day about it, and i WILL if you just give me a chance! I’ll try to give you just a few insights into WHY this app surpasses
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Have you ever delved into the experience of a Figure Drawing Course? You’ll get so much more than you bargained for. Personal expression, preceision, process, freedom, vision….. https://youtu.be/TiEuMfzU-PM How could you expand and explore your approaches to drawing to feel more free, expressive, and satisfied with the experience? How can you turn it into an
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Fashion and Costume Sketching on iPad While today I’m here to talk about model drawing, figure drawing and my course enrollment opening today, I’m going to show you how Model Drawing is the foundation of Fashion and Costume sketching on the iPad or anywhere else. Tayasui Sketches app, as you all probably know by now,
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https://youtu.be/vlgHYF5Pq58https://youtu.be/Gk_a0GlZ4dI Drawing– particularly figure drawing and even worse, “fashion” model drawing, can bring out our worst critical and perfectionist tendencies!! Today’s short video is so close to my heart. How do we overcome perfectionism and break into a new freedom of expression that also is more accurate? Yes, it’s possible. the way you look at
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https://youtu.be/d8CIbFOD5HQ Design Inspiration: Choosing Fashion Fabrics for Sketching and Presenting Choosing Fabric and inspiration are absolutely integral to the fashion designer’s creative portfoio and design process.I usually ALWAYS sketch with fabric IN MY HANDS.I say it again and again and again and again: FABRIC IS YOUR RAW MATERIAL- there literally IS NO DESIGN WITHOUT YOUR
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Shading and Shadows in your fashion illustration I LOVE TO TALK ABOUT SHADING AND SHADOWS! in fashion illustration as well as in LIFE….What a beautiful metaphor. You all know I’ve been enthusiastically teaching fashion illustration, design, and model drawing for over 20 years at Parsons School of Design Fashion department and now here in my
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Whether you are a sketching, illustration OR fashion design student/ designer… -VIDEO BELOW You still want to know the names of things (like flares, gathers, seamlines, armholes, and all kinds of specific details). TODAY’s VIDEO is all about that good stuff of fashion designing! If you love fashion and fashion design, or are a fashion
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How to Paint and Draw Digitally with the best Art App on IPad, Tablet, Computer and Devices Yes, you can make fashion illustrations and freehand art on your iphone, android phone, ipad, tablet,or computer and still get natural, textural quality effects! (ART APP VIDEO TUTORIAL BELOW) You all know I’m a fashion illustrator and designer,
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