Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
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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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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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7D1Udb3JGc CHILDRENSWEAR FASHION DESIGN TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS The childrenswear fashion design tutorial above is digital, but the general techniques of design on this page are the same regardless of the media. Make sure you scroll through the page so you don’t miss anything here that is useful for you to get inspired and get sketching
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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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 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. Â 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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Choosing Fashion Fabrics for Portfolio Design Collections (VIDEO lesson enclosed) Above, a fabric board inspiring a design collection before sketching. Every designer has their own aesthetic, voice and style. I tend to lean towards colors, textures and prints that are vivid , but your own sensibility could be radically different. .. What I know for
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The Balance Line/ Plumbline in Fashion and Figure Sketching I love jazz music and bought a copy of Matisse’s book Jazz many years ago at the Strand bookstore on 12 street in the Village in NYC….. When I found the above quotes in the book, my heart jumped because I felt he said something that I always
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Fashion Croquis Books: Design Development Sketching Where to begin? How do you get started??? What do designers do and what are the fundamentals of fashion drawing? What are Fashion Croquis? Croquis books are the most important part of the work I do with my Parsons students and private students here on my platform. The Croquis
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Laura Volpintesta, founder, FashionIllustrationTribe.com
