Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

Laura Volpintesta BFA Parsons 1995, founded Fashion Illustration Tribe, an educational and community site for fashion design and illustration, after 15 years teaching Patternmaking, Draping, Sewing, and Illustration, Portfolio, Concept Development, Tech Design/Drawing and Model Drawing. Moved by a desire to "undo" the unrealistic proportions predominantly used in fashion art and to inspire fashionistas to get the skills to create their own images for fashion's future. Balancing technical and professional with creative, Laura's online courses and live workshops/ lectures inspire fashion designers from beginner to more experienced to look at sustainability, diversity, positivity and joy in their design processes, business models, images, and messages.

Full moon mayhem

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️YOU AREN’T ALONE! 🌙 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙from one moon to the next, we’re twirled through life- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️somersaulting, turning sideways, upside down, inside-out, 🌙 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙perspectives constantly changing, every belief undone ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️it’s not that we’re being “tested” like a pass-fail judgment 🌙 🌙🌙🌙🌙 🌙but we are feeling out all of our edges, our heights, Life loves us that much […]

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Fashion Illustration and Designing with Gouache- Masterclass Replay

Fashion Sketching with Gouache masterclass I loved this masterclass.  I love the conversations we had and the dress we created on the livestream. I loved your questions, your curiosities, and your spirits in the room! It is amazing what we do when we come together and bring our inspiration with us. Today we’ll talk a LOT about

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Fashion Drawing masterclass REPLAY: Profile Face and Inspiration talk.

DRAWING FACES: the Profile Face (VIDEO ENCLOSED) Drawing faces isn’t just “faces.”  This is one of the reasons we have such a difficult time with it at first.  … Because drawing a face is actually drawing a HEAD, including the features, the hair, and the spirit of the woman (or man or child). FACES SAY

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