Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Hello TRIBE! I miss you! I’ve been busy registering and prepping my pilot run of 12-week Fashion Design Semester online course and it’s been eating up a lot of my time. I am so EXCITED as I’m connecting with each new student and meeting new artists and designers from around the world. Pinch me, […]
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How do you breathe more LIFE and MOVEMENT into your fashion illustrations? Everybody asks “how do I get the stiffness out of my drawings?”. I’ve got 10 FABULOUS TIPS for you today. Let me know in the comments below if you have any paradigm shifts or fresh results from working through this list! I’m definitely
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Why would you want to study in an ONLINE Fashion School??? FREEDOM!!!!!!!! Self-directed learning! Pacing yourself. Flexibility. Enjoyment. Discovery. Depth, and direction. No need to conform. No student loans. No COMMUTE!… In 2008 I was asked to create a fully online version of a fashion design studio course that I had been teaching on campus for years
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Illustrating fashion designs in gouache: Do YOU GET NERVOUS approaching the blank page? That’s normal. I thought I’d share a few photos step by step of myself illustrating fashion design from a photo/model/dress/design/fabric that I just loved by KachiDesigns, (who I discovered through AfricaFashionWeek (AFW) and follow on Instagram). My remedy for “blank page freeze-up” is
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https://youtu.be/L5EuvTUVrnI?si=udiYh85nIW-Bl9DC OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING: 12 ACTIONABLE TIPS to START GROWING AS A FASHION SKETCHER I don’t like to make any strict rules about things when I teach or learn or live. But I do know the best way to learn to draw fashion is by drawing what you see/ OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING. I’m an idealist Virgo who
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PENCILS FOR FASHION DRAWING- 7 TIPS Over decades teaching beginner and advanced fashion drawing at Parsons School of Design, I’ve learned SO MUCH that I am so eager to share with you. Let’s begin: WHAT KIND OF PENCILS? HAVE YOU TRIED: Charcoal pencils (white and brown, black) soft artist colored pencils such as Prismacolor Premiere
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Designing fashion with fashion flat sketches Hi! first off I just released a Craftsy.com class all about designing fashion thru flat sketches–designing them, sketching them, from beginner to more advanced. techniques. I’m so proud of it and I adored this experience of working with their brilliant team and filming in their beautiful studios!!! Really and
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7D1Udb3JGc Childrenswear Fashion Illustrations and TEMPLATES for FASHION DESIGN (Yes, my last two year old was very chubby :0) and she’s the reason I’ve started my own business-and her brother and sister.) I hope using these templates will help YOU start YOUR own business too, so you can have more time with your family or
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Fashion Illustration: Presentation WHAT’S IT ALL FOR?– depends on the project. Hopefully, all of your fashion design drawing presentations are guided by love to serve the greater good. But every project you do has a particular and unique angle. SO, What is the purpose of the project you are working on? Clarify this purpose and
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Art and Learning for All NO, art isn’t a magical, mystical privilege bestowed upon the select few who are born with perfect drawing skills. In 2001, when I was pregnant with my second child, the Chair of the Fashion Department looked at my big belly, due in September, and said “why don’t we take a hiatus
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TWEEN FASHION CROQUIS TEMPLATES- I have another resource page here including women’s and men’s templates that you can use to trace garments and illustrations onto, as well as flat sketches (technical drawings). What are “croquis templates” used for in fashion design? I call them “paper dolls” sometimes, or “flats templates”, but whatever you call them, if
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What to consider when designing winter fashion: (BRRRRRRRR…………………) Not everyone is in this market I’m in, but I live in New York / Connecticut, and it’s FREEZING right now! So here are a few thoughts to bear in mind when you are sketching/ presenting/ designing a winter collection of clothes, based on my experiences with
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