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Using Procreate app for Fashion Illustrations Using Procreate app for Fashion Illustration on iPad I had resisted using Procreate app for Fashion Illustration on iPad for a long time. Why? I felt like it was too smooth and slick looking. While I first tried it a long time ago and definitely got it to the […]
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Fashion Sketching Sessions Fashion Sketching sessions with timed, live model sessions were my absolute favorite part of fashion school. Not only did figure drawing / model drawing sessions in real-time, community, social, educational settings revv up my engine and remind me why i loved fashion so much, but the energy of LIVENESS and limited-time poses
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Fashion Pattern and Draping studio: Flares and Facings tutorials LOTS OF FREE TUTORIALS ON THIS PAGE BELOW! FOR MORE, JOIN PATTERNMAKING DEMYSTIFIED COURSE ENROLLMENT CLOSES SOON! LIFETIME ACCESS COURSE WITH SUPPORT IN OUR PRIVATE COMMUNITY SPACE. Free Studio Class time- How about just ONE principle? (Umm or 2) Yokes (or horizontal stylelines) can be highly
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Figure Drawing is a journey Then we will take this structure, put it into practice and then slowly and intentionally UNDO the structure, as flow, shape, energy, feeling, form, and intuition take over. And whenever we feel we’ve gone “too far” over the edge, we’ll come back to the structure as an anchor. We’ll
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***Body Language LIVE program enrollment opens again in 2025*** BUT WAIT- for a comprehensive self study with rich content (demonstrations, exercises, and curated image resources for sketching) dripping out weekly over 16 weeks, MODEL DRAWING MAGIC digital course incrementally and intentionally changes how you move and see in relation to drawing and most especially MODEL
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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 summer session of FABRIC FORM AND FLOW 8 week journey into textured and reflective fabric rendering enrollment for July 1 start date (closing enrollment doors until next year), I’d like to share some insights into capturing special fabric textures with various media. These sketches
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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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