Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Brown Paper Bag Fashion Sketching (VIDEOS BELOW) Brown Paper bags are toned paper- why not make use of them as such? In Fashion Sketch Group a few weeks ago I sliced up this paper bag into one long panoramic length of paper (with the handles on both ends) and sketched the model poses across it. […]
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YOUR INITIATION: Fashion Sketching TIPS for iPad Illustration! My iPad has become such a handy and essential, beloved and soulful tool for fashion illustration and design sketching for me, and today I want to share fashion sketching tips with you. The why and how…. I made it feel like HOME in SPITE OF MY RESISTANCE
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After resisting digital art supplies for decades, since 2015 I’ve been shouting from the rooftops that Tayasui Sketches is my favorite (mobile) app for fashion design illustration and sketching….. HANDS DOWN! However, I usually use it on my ipad. But sometimes I have a student or client who doesn’t have an iPad. (I first used
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Fashion Figure Drawing – LIVE! So, here’s what happened on Periscope.tv/Lvolpintesta today. I created a fashion figure drawing from scratch, working from an image that I liked, then added in the fashion details so that it looked real and gave clear construction and design information, because I love to do that :0). I took an
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 Fashion Drawing with Fine Tip Markers Everyone asks me about  markers, markers, markers for fashion illustration! And “marker” becomes a very loose term. Today you’ll see fine felt tip black markers used, as well as wet, chisel tip alcohol markers, so hopefully that addresses some of your curiosities about markers. I don’t usually teach
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INSTAGRAM for FASHION -LOVE! ( My instagram for fashion feed is embedded here at the bottom of the page using an awesome “instagram feed” plugin!) Scroll down to see my recent posts right here! My video loaded with everything I learned while I tripled my instagram following in a month while euphorically harnessing the many tricks and tools that beginners
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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 DESIGN SCHOOL PORTFOLIOS: what do I need? Hello Gorgeous Visionary! A crop of new videos are up on my YouTube channel suporting fashion portfolios. Informational and inspirational, Your 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
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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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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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