How to Paint and Draw Digitally with the best Art App on IPad, Tablet, Computer and Devices Yes, you can make fashion illustrations and freehand art on your iphone, android phone, ipad, tablet,or computer and still get natural, textural quality effects! (ART APP VIDEO TUTORIAL BELOW) You all know I’m a fashion illustrator and designer, […]

VIDEO TUTORIAL: the Dress Forms for Fashion Designers You’re going to love today’s VIDEO POST– Let’s talk all about dress forms for fashion designers and students of fashion design.  It’s one of the very most important supplies for any fashion maker! Do you own a fashion mannequin/ dress form for sewing/ designing/ patternmaking and draping

I made myself this dress by cutting into folded fabric using basic patternmaking techniques….. so in a way, you don’t always need a pattern once you learn some of these skills! Patternmaking Basics: How to add simple Flares to the Basic Skirt Sloper Let’s dip our toes into the world of fashion patternmaking for design

YOU ASKED , YOU ASKED, I HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE A RESOURCE PAGE FULL OF PATTERNMAKING TUTORIALS FOR YOU! DIVE IN AND GET FAMILIAR WITH THE LANGUAGE OF PATTERNMAKING FOR FASHION DESIGN with video patternmaking tutorials Patternmaking tutorials Laura Volpintesta, founder , Fashioni Illustration Triibe FREE PATTERNMAKING TUTORIAL ( plus draping) links: FASHION PATTERNMAKING TUTORIALS:

Model Drawing , art suppies, figure drawing…. (VIDEO Below) MODEL DRAWING is so much more than you think, until you’ve taken the deep dive. I first experienced the transformative magic of Model drawing/ figure drawing/ life drawing when I became a fine arts foundation student on my way to be a fashion design major (and

The Role of Pleasure in Learning and Creativity Learning, Leading and Creating through Pleasure Hello, creative souls!  .Know that:YOU ARE ENOUGH. I know it’s lovely to be humble when you learn something new,Let’s look at the Role of Pleasure in Learning and Creativity (learning is inherently humbling in a beautiful way as we open up in vulnerability to

Today’s mini-training shares with you some of my very favorite art supplies, from paper (Strathmore toned Sketch) to drawing tools like White China Marker, Conte’s Pierre Noir Pencil in 3B, Prismacolor Premier, and a classic Sepia colored, soft Conte Crayon. You’ll have to watch the video to know WHY i recommend and use these tools

Let’s look at basic “dart manipulations. In today’s Vídeo tutorial, (click images to view) we use a 1/4 scale sloper (basic fitted pattern block with no seam allowance and one dart) … PS LEARN IT ALL IN MY ONLINE COURSE PATTERNMAKING DEMYSTIFIED And we’ll move the dart into the shoulder! Then we’ll turn it into

and don’t forget the link to my patternmaking online course:! https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/20644/about… this sales page includes TWO FREE PATTERNMAKING VIDEOS! PATTERNMAKING SUPPLIES Here’s a list of supplies that I recently shared with my Patternmaking class at Parsons in NYC. Don’t be shy to ask and I’m so excited to be on this Patternmaking discovery with you.

Click the image below to view today’s video. For me is the perfect marriage—-Jazz and art, music and design, shape, color, and emotion…. If you know me you know there is no separation between music and visual arts. And there is no art without improvisation. The unexpected, the unplanned, the great mystery called in….. Where

A group of fashion fabrics- a fabric story- for a design collection by Laura Volpintesta Fabric Swatches for your fashion design collections or portfolio Choosing and using fabric swatches in fashion sketches…..what does it look like, where to start? (I’m so glad for my clients’ questions). Yesterday one student asked: “why would I want to

Have you always wanted to draw? I always did. I doodled shapes on all my schoolbooks, all day long, while anchored to a schooldesk, listening to boring lectures (…As if I didn’t know I had an innate, trustable voice that told me what I wanted to learn and to do and to be…) But I