Fashion Sketching with Gouache masterclass I loved this masterclass.  I love the conversations we had and the dress we created on the livestream. I loved your questions, your curiosities, and your spirits in the room! It is amazing what we do when we come together and bring our inspiration with us. Today we’ll talk a LOT about […]

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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