FABRIC, FORM AND FLOW:

Eveningwear Fashion Design Illustration Online course

In my 25+ years teaching  fashion design and fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design, I always found two distinct  kinds of fashion students:

There are the  ones who like to design ready-to-wear, or street clothes, athletic, outerwear, weekend wear, knitwear, avant-garde, casual, “ladies-who-lunch”, whatever….

AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE EVENINGWEAR, and nothing else!

Bridal, red-carpet, evening gowns, or even over the top disco club-clothes…… as single pieces or separates, the important thing is that these clothes are EXTRA SPECIAL, for designing fashion for special occasions. and stepping out of the every-day.

They usually are shiny, sheer,  clingy,voluminous, or a mix of both for contrast in fashion design elements!

They may be velvet, satiny, iridescent,  textured, or beaded, or feature extra-interesting fabric treatments,  ties or bows, embellishments, appliques, experimental textiles, treatments, embroideries or trims. 

Figure in dramatic silhouettes, ruffles, pleating and gathers, bubble and pouf skirts, petal or puff sleeves,  leather-look  designs  or fur effects, tulle, feathers or fringe, bias, bustiers, corsets….. Laces, metallics, fabulous footwear or headgear….and dramatic presentations and layouts of your fashion illustrations, fashion fabrics (I’ll help you find sources for great fabric swatches)  and flat sketches!

 Of course there is NO limit and it’s personal to each design vision. Which is the best part :!!!

And pieces in this eveningwear category, hey are usually as interesting from the back as they are from the front.

Stuff like that!

MY EVENINGWEAR DESIGN ILLUSTRATION COURSE gives you 5 hours of instruction, lessons, plus creative projects and exercises..

You can sign up TODAY and get started! Click below OR visit the COURSES tab in my header to see my other course offerings!

It’s called “Fabric, Form and Flow”, and as usual, it isn’t a course that is “only” about fashion  illustration.

It’s a journey.

Yes, it focuses on art supplies ( both digital ones and analog ones like markers, paint), because Fabric Rendering was my initial  point  of inspiration of creating it.

We focus on illustration, drama, details.

We;’ll begin by sketching fashion designs that we love from gorgeous photos. 

This warms us up and fills us with the vocabulary we gain from observational drawing.

But then you’ll get to explore your own fashion designs and techniques in the adventurous spirit that Fashion Tribalistas have!

In my Eveningwear Design and Illustration course, you’ll walk with me through my biggest tips to using tools from watercolor and gouache, to iPad/andoird apps, to markers, to understand the “universal truths” about capturing textures and fabrics.

How do you show shine and bling?

What makes fur or velvet come to life on paper?

How do I capture the metallic quality of gold lame?

What tips can use to bring fabric types, silhouettes, gathers and pleats to life on paper?

Yep, all of that.

AND IF YOU WANT MORE UNDERSTANDING HOW TO DESIGN SUCH PIECES, che k out my Patternmaking and Draping Demystified course, its ESSENTIAL!

So, come along,  “get inside my head” and studio and learn what strategies I use to approach different shapes, textures, colors and designs?

And thenm, apply those strategies yourself to YOUR fashion design and illustration  practice and come up with some fresh design sketches to create your unique fashion portfolio ?

I created this course for you, the action -takers!

You can also ask questions and share your sketches in the private course group.

Remember that all levels, styles,  body types, and points of view are encouraged and welcome here.

You can sign up here for limited time discount-for lifetime access and 4 weeks of support access to me :0) while you complete each video and assignment.  

Here are some samples of my evening wear sketches: THE ONES we do in the class aren’t here….

 I want to surprise you. Satin, fur, feathers, velvet, taffeta, …….

Digital: (iPAD/ ANDROID APPS FOR DRAWING)

FASHION ILLUSTRATION USING  MARKER TECHNIQUES AND TIPS:

You’ll learn my techniques to create FASHION ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN IN GOUACHE AND WATERCOLOR:

WE’LL also explore fashion informal sketching

(CROQUIS DEVELOPMENT SKETCHES)

and exploration versus final illustrations, to work out your original ideas.

Remember that this evening wear module can be added into  my COMPLETE  CERTIFICATION program that takes you from beginner model drawing to designing swimwear, summer collection, winter and evening wear collections to build your complete portfolio.

All of my courses are inspired by my students for 205+years at Parsons School of Design in NYC where I’m an assistant professor of Fashion and creator of their very first online fashion studio course in 2008

Let’s get down to business and pleasure! Sign up today!

I can’t wait see you  in there,
Laura