Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Let’s look at basic “dart manipulations. In today’s Vídeo tutorial, (click images to view) we use a 1/4 scale sloper (basic fitted pattern block with no seam allowance and one dart) … PS LEARN IT ALL IN MY ONLINE COURSE PATTERNMAKING DEMYSTIFIED And we’ll move the dart into the shoulder! Then we’ll turn it into […]
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and don’t forget the link to my patternmaking online course:! https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/20644/about… this sales page includes TWO FREE PATTERNMAKING VIDEOS! PATTERNMAKING SUPPLIES Here’s a list of supplies that I recently shared with my Patternmaking class at Parsons in NYC. Don’t be shy to ask and I’m so excited to be on this Patternmaking discovery with you.
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Click the image below to view today’s video. For me is the perfect marriage—-Jazz and art, music and design, shape, color, and emotion…. If you know me you know there is no separation between music and visual arts. And there is no art without improvisation. The unexpected, the unplanned, the great mystery called in….. Where
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A group of fashion fabrics- a fabric story- for a design collection by Laura Volpintesta Fabric Swatches for your fashion design collections or portfolio-VIDEOS ENCLOSED Choosing and using fabric swatches in fashion sketches…..what does it look like, where to start? (I’m so glad for my clients’ questions). Yesterday one student asked: “why would I want
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Have you always wanted to draw? I always did. I doodled shapes on all my schoolbooks, all day long, while anchored to a schooldesk, listening to boring lectures (…As if I didn’t know I had an innate, trustable voice that told me what I wanted to learn and to do and to be…) But I
Expressing yourself through figure drawing Read More »
Let’s dive deep into the benefits and possibilities when you study MODEL DRAWING
Model Drawing on the iPad Read More »
Here’s the replay of my talk from my book the Language of Fashion Design!!! Get inspired, Comment with any questions… grab your fashion design notebook/ sketchbook , and grab the assignment prompt too! Here’s the video replay: I’m also excited to share the link to Soulful Fashion Foundation Immersion Sketching and illustration program PLUS 4
Color in Fashion Design Read More »
Tayasui Sketches is an iPad or tablet app that includes a digital brush pen tip for line drawing. Today let’s talk about the benefits of working with a digital brush pen and how I created my illustration!
Dynamic Digital Brush Pen Line Drawing Read More »
Tayasui Sketches app has truly beautiful textural watercolor effects for figure drawing, fashion illustration and all kinds of watercolor art. I’ll show you how I created this illustration
Digital Watercolor Effects on iPad Pro Read More »
I can’t get over the range of flavors digital apps have to offer, from one to the next-today let’s discuss digital collage art. I’ll also embed a short video tutorial at the bottom of this post to show you the basic technique. EVERYONE knows how much I love Tayasui Sketches app…. for it’s beautiful user
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