Soulful Online Fashion Art and Design Immersions
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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Illustrating fashion designs in gouache: Do YOU GET NERVOUS approaching the blank page? That’s normal. I thought I’d share a few photos step by step of myself illustrating fashion design from a photo/model/dress/design/fabric that I just loved by KachiDesigns, (who I discovered through AfricaFashionWeek (AFW) and follow on Instagram). My remedy for “blank page freeze-up” is
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OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING I don’t like to make any strict rules about things when I teach or learn or live. But I do think the best way to learn to draw fashion is by drawing what you see/ drawing from observation Yet I’m an idealist Virgo who is most creative when I know what the rules
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( go deeper! –MODEL MAGIC ONLINE MODEL DRAWING BOOTCAMP SIGNUP CLICK HERE–) Today: 7 key tipsOde to the pencil for fashion design and illustration: psssss…JOIN MODEL MAGIC ONLINE BOOTCAMP NOW ENROLLMENT IS OPEN Yes! I love those felt tip pens! Oh, the china marker! Charcoal! Colored pencils! Watercolor pencils! Design markers, felt-tip india ink, calligraphic
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Designing fashion with fashion flat sketches Hi! first off I just released a Craftsy.com class all about designing fashion thru flat sketches–designing them, sketching them, from beginner to more advanced. techniques. I’m so proud of it and I adored this experience of working with their brilliant team and filming in their beautiful studios!!! Really and
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Childrenswear Fashion Illustrations and TEMPLATES for FASHION DESIGN (Yes, my last two year old was very chubby :0) and she’s the reason I’ve started my own business-and her brother and sister.) I hope using these templates will help YOU start YOUR own business too, so you can have more time with your family or doing
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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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Fashion Art Supplies for Illustration and Design Do you have what you need in your kit? Sometimes we’re giving to others, sometimes to ourselves, but here are some of my forever favorite supplies for designing and illustrating. All of the products are clickable links! I’ve posted several times about supplies, but what can I say? You
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STOP!!!! What’s UP with Fashion Proportions? “8 heads”, “9 heads?” “10 heads, 12 heads? “( Length of the body in relation to the length of the head use traditionally to guage fashion bodies). But length of a heaad also has a ration relationship to width of the body. So an 8 head figure can be
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Fashion Designing:Creative Process Hey TRIBE, How are you doing? Here’s some more vlog material from the series where I’m developing a capsule collection of dresses from this group of swatches: I gave myself the challenge of Fashion Designing with COLOR BLOCKING this collection: meaning, I decided to use a number of fabrics in different
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MARKERS or GOUACHE for Fashion Sketching? MARKERS: Markers for fashion drawing and illustration can be fun, novel, quick, handy. I was very excited the first time I used art markers and I even have a favorite brand. Chartpack markers (below left) are really wet with a softish chisel tip. ( DO YOUR RESEARCH- on chemical
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Fashion Sketchbook: Adding Color to the Croquis Good day, TRIBE! Back to the Fashion Sketchbook!! How are we feeling? Another day, another fresh start to try new things, creating the life we dream of…. I’ve been reviewing the final layout and text for my BOOK!!!! I have to say that when I opened the file,
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