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A Fantastic Drawing Exercise for Fashion Illustration Color blocking is an extremely powerful fashion drawing exercise – Illustration by Laura Volpintesta Yes, you can read about this powerful fashion drawing exercise, but it’s NOTHING without action! FEEL THE IMPACT BY DOING. I encourage you RIGHT NOW to grab some colored pencils (if your paper is […]
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Bangs in this fashion illustration, of course, are also a kind of fringe! What comes to mind when you think of fringe? the Fringes of Fashion Illustration Just two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about movement. When I was done, I couldn’t stop thinking about fringe!!! At the same time, I’m tickled to
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DRAWING WITH TWO HANDS Whether for fashion model drawing , which I teach on the regular for several decades now at Parsons School of Design, or for ANY model drawing or any DRAWING at ALL, drawing with two hands i s a powerful exercise that might seem silly “childish” to you at first. But like most
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Rendering Special Fabrics: Surface, Weight, and Texture In celebration of the latest session release of FABRIC FORM AND FLOW fashion design and illustration online course,… Here is some pre-work. Let’s journey into textured and reflective fashion fabric rendering for eveningwear, special occasions and beyond. Today I’d like to share some insights into capturing special fabric textures
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MOVEMENT THROUGH FIGURE DRAWING PRINCIPLES IN FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Fashion illustration, figure drawing, movement. What is it? What comes to mind to you when you think about the concept or FEELING of movement, motion, and emotion when thinking of figures and of clothing? Abdm what about when thinking of movement as a design principle? MOVEMENT is
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Using ADOBE FRESCO for fashion illustration Let’s look in to Adobe Fresco app for freehand fashion illustration on the iPad or any tablet is one of my favorite media for fashion illustration . It’s also simply one of my favorite art forms! I love fashion design and illustration (I graduated Parsons in 1995 and teaching
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Variety and possibility The purpose of today’s post is to expose the amount of variety of expression that can come out of just two hours of drawing, set aside each week. I do this every single week at a dedicated time in my Fashion Sketch Group for pure pleasure, over the past few years, and
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Watercolor wash Techniques using Tombow Brush Tip Marker Today’s post is going to look at some of the range and possibilities available to you when you explore watercolor wash with markers for your fashion drawing! This sketch above was a demonstration that happened in class session today- first. I sketched the model’s figure lightly in
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When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Brush tip markers bring a rich drama to the page when we are aiming for drama, mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition. TOMBOW is a water-soluble brush tip marker, so you can’t paint over it when drawing fashion unless you’re planning on it running like a tie-dye
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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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