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How to Draw a Fashion Figure

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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Gouache Fashion Illustration Technique

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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Fashion Figure Drawing – Video Tutorial and photos to sketch from!

https://youtu.be/WFt91-R2ZGo?si=8xTnc1u2aO7gzFI4 Do You Want to Learn Fashion Figure Drawing??? Today’s Fashion Figure Drawing practice video  provides a POWERFUL entry point into the world of fashion design and illustration. It focuses you into really understanding and listening to the body that is going to wear your clothes.  How does that sound to you?  Whether that body is

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Beginner Fashion Sketching Tutorials

Fashion Design Sketching for Beginners! ***Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is one of the very first blog posts that every appeared on this website, in 2013!*** You lucked out landing on this blog post, because it includes FOUR DELICIOUS  instruction videos about fashion design sketching for beginners– — based on my 27 years of  experience teaching model

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Line quality in fashion drawing

https://youtube.com/shorts/MZbFiNZHmZA?si=R66twBTtd-t-WKcqhttps://youtu.be/E5YO9A9MCCg?si=F2wuvRmFaRSVrPD8 Line quality in fashion drawing- FELT TIP WATERPROOF PENS, whether analog or DIGITAL, are a staple in my fashion illustration practice for their clear and varied line quality. You DEFINITELY want to add them to your toolkit! (watch the video above to learn why LINE QUALITY matters). Using a variety of pens can make

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Fashion Figure Drawing

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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