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Fashion Croquis Books: Design Development Sketching Where to begin? How do you get started??? What do designers do and what are the fundamentals of fashion design development sketching? What are Fashion Croquis? Croquis books are the most important part of the work I do with my Parsons students and private students here on my platform. […]
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How to Draw a Fashion Figure: video lesson This is the foundation for so many things we can do! In today’s video, you can get a real feel for the motion and movement of sketching as I let you know step -by-step what i’m doing when I’m drawing the fashion figure. MY method is CUSTOMIZABLE
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) Toned paper, oil pastel gesture, and graphite lines. Study from live fashion drawing session FASHION drawing from gesture to line I can’t emphasize enough the power of drawing fashion from Gesture to Line. Am I speaking another language ? I’ll explain. The most common approach- and most
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TOMBOW BRUSH TIP MARKER IS A CLASSIC When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Tombow brush tip markers bring a rich, organic constrasts and drama to the fashion sketch. When we are aiming for mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition, we can use a bold, dark color: Holding our pen more vertically with a
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My first job interview as a fashion designer was to be a fabric and print stylist at Gap Inc, and I was asked to complete a project for my interview where I created a color palette and group of fabrics for two seasons, transition from summer to fall, and fall. In today’s video, I share
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Fashion Sketchbook (VIDEOS enclosed): Adding Color to the Croquis (originally posted October 2013) Back to the Fashion Croquis Book! Another day, another fresh start to try new things, creating in the dream of life…. –and celebration! I’ve been reviewing the final layout and text for my BOOK!!!! I have to say that when I opened
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Gouache Technique for illustrating fashion- my process 4 GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT!! I’m here to introduce you to my gouache technique for fashion illustrations, which means to also introduce your to your 4 new best friends (besides ME) in fashion illustration! While quiet in appearance, these four simple tubes or colors of “goo-AH-sh”
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DESIGNING Fashion PrintED PATTERNS How can you create original art for fashion fabrics, exploring printed patterns for fabric in simple repeat? What is the theory involved in designing a tile that can be multiplied infinitely in every direction, creating a printed fashion fabric to wear? Scroll down to watch a full instructional video. MATERIALS FOR the PRINTED
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https://youtu.be/PpH4UDgQ0k0 China Marker for Fashion Batik Sketching (video on this page) There are many technical professional and creative ways that I use China Marker for fashion sketching. Usually I use it in fashion illustrations, but I also love how it works perfectly to create batik fabric effects by resisiting watercolor. CHINA MARKER as a sketching
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Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! I often discourage my Parsons Fashion Design students from illustrating with ONLY colored pencil  because they simply never spring to vivid life on the page as easily as gouache. COLORED PENCIL with BLACK INK PEN Plus, it takes a LOT OF MUSCLE to make colored pencils
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