Depth and Space in Drawing and Composition
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 […]
My favorite digital watercolor app for fashion art
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 […]
Color and Design Theory training REPLAY
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. […]
Kaftans, Kimonos, “Roots of Fashion Design” sketching and construction class
Fashion Designing with Caftans: Video Lesson, click above 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 […]
Digital Fashion Design Sketching on the Dress Form
digital fashion design sketching Digital Fashion Design Sketching on the Dress Form It all started one day when I was visiting the web pages of PGM Dress Form company. I recommend them to all my students at Parsons and in my signature program whenever students who want to work in 3D. They’re beautiful, the company is […]
Fashion Sketch Apps
Fashion Sketch Apps I love and recommend: Don’t forget that I’ve created an entire course on this topic! Since its inception, ABOUT FACES online program for freehand fashion illustration of faces using a few of the best apps has grown to included creative sketching processes, projects, more apps, more insights, more support and inspiration than […]
How We Learn Matters
NEW STYLE VOICES PODCAST Episode 11: How we Learn matters I HOW WE LEARN MATTERS How we learn matters, and if you click the bar above, you can hear the latest podcast episode on this topic! I don’t care if it’s college, homeschool, unschool…. in fact I want to make sure we questions that learning […]
3 Tips for a Better Fashion Sketchbook!
So you spent an hour or two at your fashion sketchbook. Or stayed up all night in a frenzy of inspiration.. Chances are, you look at it later and you have mixed feelings. There’s a lot that you love, and there’s a lot that feels like it’s “falling flat”. DON’T GIVE UP ON YOUR WORK! […]
Drawing Fashion Faces
Biggest Mistakes in Drawing Fashion Faces! This post isn’t only about drawing fashion faces, but that’s what most of my students use it for, so let’s go! NO matter WHAT you are drawing faces for, IF and I mean IF (you don’t have to) REALISM is part of what you want to incorporate into your […]
Divine Feminine Art
What is the purpose in our fashion art, fashion design, or fashion illustration? Where does the sacred enter in and awaken the divine feminine in the world or in you? Let’s talk about art and expressions of the divine.
10 Actionable Fashion Illustration Layout inspirations
Gaouche and Sharpie fashion illustrratino, original design and illustration by Laura Volpintesta, 1995 Today, a fashion illustration tour. Especially in fashion, but in all model drawing, we focus on…. the model. Of course! But, lot of the time this can turn into a figure just “floating” in the center of a white page. Once in […]
Body Positivity in Fashion Illustration
body positivity is the celebration of beauty. POSITIVITY is a key word to bring to all that you do as a creative in fashion design, fashion illustration, and life itself
