PLUS SIZE Fashion Illustration Tutorial
PLUS SIZE Fashion Illustration Tutorial How do we define plus size fashion Illustration…I’m using the term “PLUS SIZE” widely used out there, but: even the tall, skinny models are “plus size” compared to the way so many fashion illustrators and designers are drawing. “Plus size” is the overwhelming majority of figures and bodies, especially when […]
Procreate App Fashion Illustration Tutorial
Procreate App Tutorial for Fashion Illustration: PROCREATE PROS AND CONS [PROCREATE APP VIDEO TUTORIAL BELOW) Are you curious to try Procreate app for fashion illustration? Everyone is always talking about Procreate app for digital drawing/ digital painting.! (even if you aren’t a digital fashion or costume sketcher, you’ll find the step-by-step walk through below useful, […]
Fashion Runway Diversity
Fashion Runway Diversity (and education diversity, and media diversity,…) I started my business years ago and became a designer LONG BEFORE THAT. Not only that, but before I even went to Parsons School of Design to become a designer, I had a vision. And it was very personal, and super-strong. I wanted diversity. I WANTED […]
IPad Pro Fashion Illustration
IPad Pro Fashion Illustration (10 minute video lesson below) okay, this title is a little misleading, because you can create an illustration like this on and iPad mini or other digital device, but I did in fact create THIS ON on my Ipad Pro with my Apple Pencil, so why not just call it that? […]
Sloppy Fashion Sketching
Sloppy Fashion Sketching (p.s. all of the images on this post were sketched on iPad using digital painting apps. They are all portraits. Peruse the site to see other samples of my work, make yourself at home with the menu in the header and the search box at top right!) I had a wonderful experience […]
Adobe Draw App for Fashion
Adobe Draw App for Fashion- it’s time to check it out! Adobe Draw App for Fashion? How’s that? Here’s some background, and samples of what you can do with it from my portfolio. Hi! I”m Laura Volpintesta. I’m a fashion designer and illustrator, Founder of FashionIllustrationTribe.com and a 20 years faculty, Assistant Professor of […]
Fashion Designing Course
Learn How to Draw Fashion on the Ipad Pro
Learn How to Draw Fashion on the iPad Pro? Wondering??? I got you covered! This example isn’t only for IPad Pro, actually these drawing tools are avaliable for you on Android, desktop Mac, Iphone and Android and tablets. In this video, I’ll use the Ipad Pro that i JUST got and use the same techniques […]
Fashion Eveningwear Illustration Online Course
Eveningwear Illustration: Form and Flow Fashion Design Illustration Online course is here! In my 25 years teaching fashion design and fashion illustration, I always found two major kinds of fashion students. Some of you like to design ready-to-wear, or street clothes, athletic, outerwear, weekend wear, casual, “ladies-who-lunch”, whatever…. AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE DESIGNING and […]
10 Reasons to Learn Fashion Design Terms
Here are 10 reasons to learn Fashion Design Terms: I’m happy to share this exciting chapter with you on my journey building my fashion program every year to serve you better at Fashion Illustration Tribe! What happened? After being invited to teach Patternmaking at Parsons in NYC after YEARS teaching only fashion illustration and design,/ […]
Creative Education
CREATIVE EDUCATION I always say, “Art is your Birthright”. Nobody has the right to take that flow away from you. I am THRILLED to share with you my interview with the bright, breath-of-fresh-air, fomer student of mine and Armani Xchange fashion creative director Shafiq Haddad! A former Parsons School of Design Fashion Design student of […]
Patternmaking Fashion Online Course
Patternmaking Fashion Online Course goes LIVE! Are you ready to crack open the mysteries? Are you eager to get clear on fashion design fundamentals? Have you always wanted to take design into your own hands and create unique things? Do you feel like there’s something you don’t know that you need to know to move […]
