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Digital Fashion Sketchbooks Now before I go too far, let’s make it clear that this post is about a digital fashion sketchbook, but that the layout, process and development in MOST ways is no different than for ANY kind of fashion sketchbooks! Because I did this work digitally (sketching freehand on my iPad Pro), I […]
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Fashion Design Sketching for Beginners! ***Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is one of the very first blog posts that every appeared on this website, in 2013!*** You lucked out landing on this blog post, because it includes FOUR DELICIOUS instruction videos about fashion design sketching for beginners– — based on my 27 years of experience teaching model
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Model Drawing forms the foundation for fashion illustration skilss. This costume for carnaval by AVOA illustrated by Laura Volpintesta on Adobe Fresco app EXPLORE: Versatile, vibrant apps for fashion sketching and illustration! Fashion Illustration: Striped pantsuit illustration by Laura Volpintesta using Adobe Fresco app I studied fashion design and fashion illustration back in the early
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Discovering Adobe Fresco App CLICK TO VIEW TIMELAPSES all over this post– and discover Adobe Fresco app for fashion illustration on ipad- mimicking watercolor/ gouache and pencil sketching. When I opened Adobe Fresco for the first time, the new interface with so many little boxes and selections took me out of my artistic flow. It felt
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https://youtu.be/d8CIbFOD5HQ Design Inspiration: Choosing Fashion Fabrics for Sketching and Presenting Choosing Fabric and inspiration are absolutely integral to the fashion designer’s creative portfoio and design process.I usually ALWAYS sketch with fabric IN MY HANDS.I say it again and again and again and again: FABRIC IS YOUR RAW MATERIAL- there literally IS NO DESIGN WITHOUT YOUR
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Sketching Fashion Figures, or any figure, in profile, always seems to present unique challenges. The most common problem is that the figures become too thin when rotated into profile, and that we don’t understand what the anatomy is doing. I’m here to help you with that today. There’s also a video in this post, to
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FASHION PORTFOLIOS: what do I need? Hello Gorgeous Visionaries! A crop of new videos up on my YouTube channel suporting fashion portfolios. Informational and inspirational, a fashion portfolio MUST BE INSPIRED, above all! You want to show what you know, how you think, how you see things through, how you solve problems, how you present things,what your taste is like, how
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How do you breathe more LIFE and MOVEMENT into your fashion illustrations? Everybody asks “how do I get the stiffness out of my drawings?”. I’ve got 10 FABULOUS TIPS for you today. Let me know in the comments below if you have any paradigm shifts or fresh results from working through this list! I’m definitely
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PENCILS FOR FASHION DRAWING- 7 TIPS Over decades teaching beginner and advanced fashion drawing at Parsons School of Design, I’ve learned SO MUCH that I am so eager to share with you. Let’s begin: WHAT KIND OF PENCILS? HAVE YOU TRIED: Charcoal pencils (white and brown, black) soft artist colored pencils such as Prismacolor Premiere
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TWEEN FASHION CROQUIS TEMPLATES- I have another resource page here including women’s and men’s templates that you can use to trace garments and illustrations onto, as well as flat sketches (technical drawings). What are “croquis templates” used for in fashion design? I call them “paper dolls” sometimes, or “flats templates”, but whatever you call them, if
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What to consider when designing winter fashion: (BRRRRRRRR…………………) Not everyone is in this market I’m in, but I live in New York / Connecticut, and it’s FREEZING right now! So here are a few thoughts to bear in mind when you are sketching/ presenting/ designing a winter collection of clothes, based on my experiences with
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from my stufdent croquis book, 1995, Laura Volpintesta “Don’t go changing, to try to please me…. you never let me down before….”-Billy Joel My kids are 4, 12, and 13 right now. The older ones, they tell me I have a song for everything, and every situation. They’re right! How could I not? I’m a
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