Perspectives and Visions | LAURA VOLPINTESTA

Instagram for fashion, design, and business- It’s a visual party! COME

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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Fashion Illustration Techniques: Textures and Contours

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MY LOVES!!! LET’S TALK about the role of CONTOURS in FASHION ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES! …..Edges, curves, textures, and lines. “Contours” are turning, winding edges. CONTOURS are something I refer to A LOT. Once you get into discussing visual arts and drawings, it is a vital word. Specifically, CONTOUR refers to outlines, and edges. For fashion design

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Fashion Design, Research, and Sao Paulo Fashion Week

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(remember last week’s post about color? I found these images of Ronaldo Fraga’s spring/summer 2015 collection the next day..cool, right?) At the end of this post there are lots of images. Scroll down to see several Sao Paulo collections. I guess I’m just going to share all of my secrets with you all! Sharing

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Fashion and Color: A Love Story

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Ahhhhhhh, colors. Fashion. I’m obsessed. Right now it’s pale pale pale pink (which I never would have worn years ago), and royal blue, and mint green. Lemon yellow. I love pastels and pure hues when paired with each other or with white. Color is joy. Color is a public service. Color is happiness. Color is

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#FashionFilter: Fashion Ethics Issues

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Hello TRIBE! I miss you! I’ve been busy registering and prepping my pilot run of 12-week Fashion Design Semester online course and it’s been eating up a lot of my time. I am so EXCITED as I’m connecting with each new student and meeting new artists and designers from around the world. Pinch me,

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Breathe more LIFE and MOVEMENT into your fashion illustrations

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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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Why online fashion school? 20 undeniable perks

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Why would you want to study in an ONLINE Fashion School??? FREEDOM!!!!!!!! Self-directed learning! Pacing yourself. Flexibility. Enjoyment. Discovery. Depth, and direction. No need to conform. No student loans. No COMMUTE!… In 2008 I was asked to create a fully online version of a fashion design studio course that I had been teaching on campus for years

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Illustrating fashion in Gouache: a walk-through

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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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Awesome! Pencil for Fashion Design and Illustration

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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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FAQ: Why are fashion proportions distorted?

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Fashion Proportions: That’s kind of funny. Me blogging in a few hundred words about a topic that could easily be a BOOK. Perhaps Naomi Wolf’s the Beauty Myth, for starters? People’s eyes get “used” to anything, if they see it enough. Yet we still haven’t gotten to see images that tell us that our bodies and

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Fashion Design Drawing Presentation

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Fashion Illustration: Presentation WHAT’S IT ALL FOR?– depends on the project. Hopefully, all of your fashion design drawing presentations are guided by love to serve the greater good. But every project you do has a particular and unique angle. SO, What is the purpose of the project you are working on? Clarify this purpose and

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On Art and Learning

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Art and Learning for All NO, art isn’t a magical, mystical privilege bestowed upon the select few who are born with perfect drawing skills. In 2001, when I was pregnant with my second child, the Chair of the Fashion Department looked at my big belly, due in September, and said “why don’t we take a hiatus

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