Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
MUSIC AND FASHION STUDY from my student croquis book, Parsons, NYC, 1995, Laura Volpintesta “Don’t go changing, to try to please me…. you never let me down before….”-Billy Joel My kids are 4, 12, and 13 right now. The older ones, they tell me I have a song for everything, and every situation. They’re right! […]
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5 livestream fashion design masterclasses from the language of fashion design! Today I’m happy to share with you a bouquet of fashion design masterclasses from my first book, that were livestreamed in 2020. Join me as I read from “The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know”, sharing images, insights, designers,
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Of course you want to be able to learn to draw… You want to learn to draw both realistically, and creatively, and freely. You want to use color, paint, create the same kind of beauty that you see and appreciate around you in nature, art, design around you in the world every day. It moves
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) Toned paper, oil pastel gesture, and graphite lines. Study from live fashion drawing session FASHION drawing from gesture to line 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
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Learning the fundamentals of Patternmaking and Draping are essential to be learned together. STRONG FOUNDATIONS set you up for a lifetime of creative discovery combined with clear technical processes to roll with the pros. Videos on this page!
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Here are my top 9 recommended books for fashion design!(video)  Hello Fashion Creatives!! I’m so happy you’re here. *** originally posted in 2015, these classics are STILL at the top of my list! As a 25-plus years fashion design professor and former student before that, I’m finally, answering “that” question. HERE THEY ARE: the 9Â
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TOMBOW BRUSH TIP MARKER IS A CLASSIC When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Tombow brush tip markers bring a rich, organic constrasts and drama to the fashion sketch. When we are aiming for mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition, we can use a bold, dark color: Holding our pen more vertically with a
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FRESH PERSPECTIVES FOR FASHION DRAWING THROUGH LIVE SESSIONS (VIDEO ENCLOSED) For now, I’m not using LIVE MODELS for my fashion drawing sessions on zoom, because I am obsessed with curating posed leotard figures for the warmup period at the beginning, and BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES and poses for the longer drawings. WHAT MAKES A DRAWING SESSION “LIVE”?
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Model Drawing , art suppies, figure drawing…. (VIDEO Below) MODEL DRAWING is so much more than you think, until you’ve taken the deep dive. INITIATION I never realized what a world I was opening into, of expression, exploration and discovery, as when I started taking model drawing classes. (below, alcohol marker and Sharpie Ultra Fine
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My first job interview as a fashion designer was to be a fabric and print stylist at Gap Inc, and I was asked to complete a project for my interview where I created a color palette and group of fabrics for two seasons, transition from summer to fall, and fall. In today’s video, I share
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Laura Volpintesta, founder, FashionIllustrationTribe.com
