Fashion Illustration and Creative Design Learning Center
Brown Paper Bag Fashion Sketching (VIDEOS BELOW) Brown Paper bags are toned paper- why not make use of them as such? In Fashion Sketch Group a few weeks ago I sliced up this paper bag into one long panoramic length of paper (with the handles on both ends) and sketched the model poses across it. […]
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How do we even define “plus size” fashion model vs another? If, In the fashion design industry, sizing is unregulated and inconsistent across the board. In fact; in fashion schools, students are still learning —and teachers are teaching and illustrators often perpetuating the use of— proportions that don’t exist in human form, then where do
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Fashion Illustration Tools for quick fashion illustration and sketching? In my weekly Fashion Sketch Groups, we draw for 2 hours straight (does that sound long? ItGOES BY WAY TOO FAST!!!) and usually it’s a mix of poses from 30 sec to 1 minute to 3, 10, 15 minutes. Fashion Illustration Tools: Graphite So what kinds
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ESSENTIAL FASHION MODEL DRAWING EXERCISES! Today I want to talk to you about one of my most high Impact Model Drawing Exercises for Fashion Illustration. REMEMBER: when you subscribe for my newsletter, you’ll get a welcome packet that includes a model drawing tutorial! The first weeks of teaching model drawing to a group or individual are
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YOUR INITIATION: Fashion Sketching TIPS for iPad Illustration! My iPad has become such a handy and essential, beloved and soulful tool for fashion illustration and design sketching for me, and today I want to share fashion sketching tips with you. The why and how…. I made it feel like HOME in SPITE OF MY RESISTANCE
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https://youtube.com/shorts/-F9J0VU9JbI?si=e3VT4OfBpHywM8jU CLICK TO VIEW TIMELAPSE– and discover Adobe Fresco app for fashion illustration on ipad- mimicking watercolor/ gouache and pencil sketching. I’ve been very open about how I don’t adore Procreate nor Adobe Fresco for fashion illustration on my iPad… (and I’m also very easy to articulate EXACTLY WHY- read on) and how sad I was
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After resisting digital art supplies for decades, since 2015 I’ve been shouting from the rooftops that Tayasui Sketches is my favorite app for fashion design illustration and sketching….. HANDS DOWN! And I usually use it on my ipad. But ometimes I have a student or client who doesn’t have an iPad. (I first used Tayasui
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Digital Fashion Illustration with apps Today I’ll share with you a series of digital fashion illustrations over the past few months of the fashion designer Layana Aguilar. (yes, I coach on model drawing, analog and digital fasihon illustrations, and fashion technical design so make sure you subscribe or reach out if you have questions about
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Welcome, creative fireball. Here are some new videos SPECIFICALLY about learning, growth, creative communities, learning envoironments, What we are called to create, is our desire. What is our relationship to ourself, to our desire, our creative power?? How do containers of time and community affect our expansion? Finally, how can we birth our vision? How
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CREATIVE SELF-EXPRESSION: Drawing without Fear [VIDEO SERIES ON THIS PAGE] It’s as-yet unthinkable experience of creative self-expression for many …to draw without fear. BUT NOT FOR YOU! NOT ANY MORE. WELCOME TO DRAWING WITHOUT FEAR! I’m Laura Volpintesta. I’ve been successfully guiding creatives and aspiring designers to DRAW without FEAR for almost 3 decades
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Digital Fashion Sketchbooks Now before I go too far, let’s make it clear that this post is about a digital fashion sketchbook, but that the layout, process and development in MOST ways is no different than for ANY kind of fashion sketchbooks! Because I did work digitally (sketching freehand on my iPad Pro), I want
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Today I’m happy to share with you a bouquet of fashion design masterclasses, Join me as I read from my book “The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know”…. and we discuss the images and concepts that are fundamental to fashion design and fashion illustration!When I got the book contract, (view
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