Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
My favorite digital watercolor app for fashion art Digital watercolors? EEEEEEEW!! How can you possibly get textural, delicious paint effects on a piece of smooth, cold hard glass?? Even in 2026, a lot of digital apps have a slick, gooey, artificial and harsh feeling to them. BUT NOT ALL OF THEM! DIGITAL WATERCOLORS IN AN APP: […]
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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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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
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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
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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 course 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
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NEW STYLE VOICES PODCAST Episode 11: “How we Learn matters” Unschooling and Creative expression I’ve squeezed several of my talks about creative expression into this blog page. Unschooling and homeschooling perspectives are discussed, as well as unlearning and reparenting the inner child, understanding why we feel blocked or stuck and how to help support our
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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are you looking for a fashion illustration app? (6 minute video below of my current favorite fashion illustration app!!) Gouache and pencils make up my classic, favorite fashion illustration tools. Adobe Draw app for fashion illustration mimics these pretty beautifully, as you ‘ll see in today’s video. Get the full download of my ABOUT FACES
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https://youtu.be/00AzdAIL1sQ It’s one of the very first questions, always, how to draw sheer fabrics??? There are variables. Some fabrics are VERY SHEER. Some fabrics are BARELY sheer. What I love about teaching and learning fashion design and illustration is that there are thousand-million-bajillion possibilites. Buy you can always learn a framework that is “digestible” and
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