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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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Sketching Fashion Figures in Profile

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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, Research, and Sao Paulo Fashion Week

Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

(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

Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

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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The New Fashion Draping Book and Fashion Figure

Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

I eagerly unwrapped my review copy of the newly released Draping, the Complete Course by Karolyn Kiisel on Laurence King Publishing, a few months ago. (Hang in here, the juiciest part is at the end 🙂 It sure shows how many years have passed since I taught sophomore draping at Parsons in New York, 1997-2001… when

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Maternity hight Fashion Beverly Peele in Azzedine Alaia Lace dress

Maternity Fashion Tips and Ideas

Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

High Fashion Maternity Fashion Design Illustration and Model Drawing At the bottom of this page you’ll find some pregnant models to practice sketching from. Deeper in the post, you’ll find a croquis template for sketching flats and fashion designs for your pregnant fashion model! I’m going to give you a little mother’s day gift today:

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Illustrating fashion in Gouache: a walk-through

Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

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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Learn to draw fashion by drawing what you see

Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

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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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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Designing fashion with fashion flat sketches

Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

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 Design- 2 fun templates for sketching now!

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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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Fashion Design Drawing Presentation

Laura from FashionIllustration Tribe

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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