Soulful Online Fashion Art and Design Immersions
DRAWING FACES: the Profile Face (VIDEO ENCLOSED) Drawing faces isn’t just “faces.” This is one of the reasons we have such a difficult time with it at first. … Because drawing a face is actually drawing a HEAD, including the features, the hair, and the spirit of the woman (or man or child). FACES SAY […]
Fashion Drawing masterclass REPLAY: Profile Face and Inspiration talk. Read More »
2018 iPhone app of the year: Procreate Pocket Fashion Illustration (video below) Today I’m going to take you into the 2018 iPhone app of the year: Procreate Pocket, and create a fashion illustration of an original design . Come along, IN TODAY’S VIDEO BELOW I’ll show you how to poke around the app, texplain what
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This page originally housed a temporary livestream masterclass SUBSCRIBE to get informed about upcoming events, and follow me on instagram for daily updates, tips and livestreams. I’ve replaced this place holder with some Procreate timelapse videos as well as two instructional videos so you can get a feel for the look and capabilities of digital
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Learn to Draw Well, isn’t THIS one of the most direct titles I’ve ever come up with: “LEARN TO DRAW”!? This video, this lesson today means so much to me. Why? For me, This is gold. This is the stuff it’s all made of. See, BEFORE you “LEARN TO DRAW” something you are looking at…
Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! >>>>>>>>>>WATCH TODAY’S TUTORIAL VIDEO by clicking the images in the post. Actually, I discourage using just colored pencils to create fashion sketches because they can be so thin and dry looking. Everyone knows, I love vibrant, vital, fluid, dynamic effects in fashion illustration! Today, i was
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Fahion Illustration on Ipad Fashion Illustration on the iPad- Stella Jean Ensemble Naturally, I adore Stella Jean, an Italian-AFrican fusion designer who uses the ankara/ pagne/ African Print and Dutch Wax Print fabrics that I have loved so much for so long since I landed in Paris in 1992 and fell in love with African
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Claire McCardell fashion sketches from the archive at Parsons School of Design in NYC where she graduated and later was a design critic up until her death while also owning her infamous design house Townley Frocks. What if you can’t draw and you want to design fashion ??? (Do you think that Claire McCardell, whose
What if you CAN’T DRAW and want to design? Read More »
iPad Drawing Technique if you’ve studied with iPad drawing technique (or anything at all) with me before, you know that I don’t believe in one way of doing ANYTHING!!! So today I’m here to share something i’m passionate about: FREEHAND iPad Drawing technique. I’m going to use Adobe Draw app today to show you ONE WAY
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Depth and Space in Drawing and Composition…. view the Youtube timelapse VIDEO BELOW!!! I love sketching Brazilian Carnaval from the Northeast (Salvador, Bahia, and Recife, Pernambuco)….The “carnaval de rua”, street carnaval, is so colorful, with drumming and costumes, singing and dancing…Every January in NYC, it’s my big escape from winter to celebrate decoration and adornment
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My favorite digital watercolor app for fashion art Digital watercolor? EEEEEEEW!! How can you get textural, delicious paint effects on a piece of smooth, cold hard glass?? I love working with my gouache . Puddles of water, the smell of paint, brushes and palettes, paper towels and watercups, various textures of paper…. BUT WHO HAS
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Here’s your Color and Design Theory REPLAY: PASSWORD: “NEWEYES” Have you every studied Color Theory or Design Theory???? Oh boy, are you in for a ride……. buckle up!!! You think you know colors, you think you know your eyes. Probably you sort of take for granted what you see and react to throughout the day.
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Kaftans Kimonos Roots of Fashion Laura Volpintesta Fashionillustrationtribe Exploring -kaftans kimonos roots of fashion design sketching and construction Caftans or Kaftans, Kimonos (both traditional and modified)take the complex world of fashion making and break it down. Dirndl skirts and circle skirts do this too. So often I see students and designers stopping themselves in the
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