Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Croquis templates for sketching Fashion Flats! (videos in this post) Maybe you aren’t familiar with using a croquis to create your fashion flats. (see some below) WHY ARE WE USING A TEMPLATE? If you have a body or garment “template”, that simply means that you have a body or shape that you can use as […]
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Caftans, Kimonos, Circle Skirts, and Dirndls Kaftans Kimonos Roots of Fashion Laura Volpintesta FashionIllustrationtribe FUNDAMENTAL sustainable CLOTHING PRINCIPLES Since (even before) the very beginning of my career, I’ve been fascinated by kimonos, caftans, saris, togas ponchos, and all sorts of “original” clothing created with minimal cutting of the cloth. THE ORIGINAL SUSTAINABLE FASHION. It’s zero
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Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! I often discourage my Parsons Fashion Design students from illustrating with ONLY colored pencil because they simply never spring to vivid life on the page as easily as gouache. COLORED PENCIL with BLACK INK PEN Plus, it takes a LOT OF MUSCLE to make colored pencils
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Freehand, DIGITAL african wax print fashion illustration I’m a die hard print lover and African Wax Print Fashion features are some of my favorite styles Large, graphic motifs that cut across the figure, barely fit into garment panels of fabric. The result: dynamic, eye-popping and figure-flattering designs for every size and proportion. The colors in
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I love the organic, textural, high quality look of real watercolors in my fashion illustrations. Here’s what I do when I’m working digitally.
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FASHION DRAWING IN REAL TIME Since my first experience in a live fashion drawing model session with timed poses, I was HOOKED! Today, as in every week for over 20 years, (online only for 6) I hosted one of my beloved figure drawing sessions for fashion. EXPLORE YOUR ART SUPPLIES Fashion Drawing sessions are powerful
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FASHION FABRICS [4 VIDEOS BELOW]: a whole language of their own. When we look at fabrics, we ask ourselves: How do we describe texture, weight, drape, quality, content of a fabric? Are there key words that we can use to communicate about this fabric? How do we recognize the kind of fashion fabric we ARE
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Figure Drawing Foundations Figure drawing foundations for me are the gateway into the glorious world of fashion design illustration. Through studying and observing the balance, forms, flow and proportions of the human figure, we open the gates into the wide world of drawing. With the fashion / standing, posed figure as our focus, we
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Fashion Sketch Apps I love and recommend: Fashion illustration apps can be WONDERFUL. I wouldn’t recommend diving into them without ever exploring paper and analog sketching tools as a foundation, but after that I think that everyone could enjoy having a fashion illustration app in their life to create and illustrate. Don’t forget that I’ve
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Watercolor Fashion Portrait Process The purpose of this watercolor fashion portrait is to get you excited to create. I hope it makes your fingers tingle, your heart beat, and your eyes remember that you have visions- and grab some paper or your iPad or anything, even a napkin and a ballpoint pen, and bring something
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Classic fashion design education resources, projects, techniques, tutorials, and support for vibrant expression and experience
