Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
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… […]
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
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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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Here’s your Color and Design Theory REPLAY https://vimeo.com/286681364 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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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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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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