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 …
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 …
from my stufdent croquis book, 1995, Laura Volpintesta “Don’t go changing, to try to please me…. you never let me down before….”-Billy Joel My kids are 4, 12, and 13 right now. The older ones, they tell me I have a song for everything, and every situation. They’re right! How could I not? I’m a …
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 …
STOP!!!! What’s UP with Fashion Proportions? “8 heads”, “9 heads?” “10 heads, 12 heads? “( Length of the body in relation to the length of the head use traditionally to guage fashion bodies). But length of a heaad also has a ration relationship to width of the body. So an 8 head figure can be …
 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 …
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 …
Do You Want to Learn How to Draw Fashion??? HELLO FASHION TRIBALISTAS!!!! Good day! (Good night?) How are you today?  Are you feeing inspired? Do you have even a half hour or an hour to whip out your pencils and do some model drawing? A refresher or beginner video “How to Draw Fashion” is included at …
How to Draw Fashion – Video Tutorial and photos to sketch from! Read More »
Fashion Illustration Art Supplies!!! Grab your fashion illustration art supplies! Time to illustrate! It’s a new day…. one more opportunity to share your wonderfulness with everyone you come in contact with. Share your sunshine…giving is receiving. Let’s go get sketching. Today’s reminder is: TURN UP SOME GOOD TUNES WHEN YOU DRAW!!!! What I wanted to …
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 …
the Balance Line in Fashion Illustration Techniques- free video tutorial Read More »
For those of you who read last week’s post about gouache fashion illustration, (“FOUR GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN”T LIVE WITHOUT…..”) here is more on the subject. But in today’s sketch, the ensemble is ANYTHING BUT white!! Full of vibrant color, this piece was inspired by the Ndebele culture of South Africa. Here is another piece …
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 sketches, which means to also introduce your to your four 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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