FRESH PERSPECTIVES FOR FASHION DRAWING THROUGH LIVE SESSIONS (VIDEO ENCLOSED)
For now, I’m not using LIVE MODELS for my fashion drawing sessions on zoom, because I am obsessed with curating posed leotard figures for the warmup period at the beginning, and BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES and poses for the longer drawings.
WHAT MAKES A DRAWING SESSION “LIVE”?
“LIVE” model drawing sessions means that we participate in a real-time session with curated music and images.
LIVE fashion and figure drawing is a truly special experience because of the improvisational and in-the-moment nature of real-time drawing and limited-time poses.
When poses are short, when we know our time is limited, we tend to release perfectionism and control and more easily access ESSENCE, EXPERIMENTATION, INTUITION, IMPULSE, and PLAYFULNESS.
A NEW WAY TO THINK ABOUT FIGURE AND FASHION DRAWING (VIDEO):
Body Language IN FASHION Model Drawing
THE EXPRESSIONS OF THE HUMAN FIGURE and our love for that language are what fuel us in our journey learning model drawing (for costume, fashion design, fashion illustration, profession, pleasure or play).
While we sketch from standing, posed, expressive figures:
- I’ll share my desktop,
- engage in live Q and A via chat box or audio
- real time demonstrations or insights offered as i’m guided to by any certain pose or garment,
- incorporate practice and exercises that open you up and stretch your expression and experience
- open-ended exploration is the general rule
- sharing your fashion drawings/ questions/ feedbackat the end (you’re free to show up and participate, or quietly sketch with your camera off).
CHARCOAL STICKS
In BODY LANGUAGE,
you’ll be invited to draw along with me in real time (you’ll have access to the replay classes forever) and try out new tools, approaches and insights designed to loosen you up in fashion drawing and bring you into a more raw, more honest, more playful, energetic, flowing and ALSO MORE PRECISE approach to drawing and sketching for fashion illustration and beyond.
room for discovery
tools to explore, time to experiment with fashion figures, silhouettes, garments and details.
Technique, play, flow, time, encouragement, examples.
Grounded in a foundation of the fashion figure, enhanced with eye for design details and love for fashion design and illustration.
Silhouettes, texures, shapes and drapes.
Discover what different media can do in real time. Combine media, separate. There are no RULES here, so you can follow your inner guidance through each pose.
VINE CHARCOAL
SOFT, sensitive ARTIST’s COLORED PENCILS
Let's explore together!!!
ART MARKERS OF ALL KINDS
Fashion drawing should be FUN
Joy and love for the model drawing and fashion as a subject leads our energy as we dive in to the sweeping gestures of movement that build a “fashion ” figure, silhouette, or sketch.
SENSITIVE TOOLS WILL GUIDE YOU TO FEEL INTO YOUR STYLE AND VOICE
NEWSPRINT PAPER
It constantly reminds us to lean back and enjoy this time because we are not in a formal, perfectionist space.
I’LL BE SHARING ART SUPPLIES SUGGESTIONS and EXAMPLES THROUGHOUT THIS POST
- Our basic art supplies and how to use them in not so basic ways for fashion drawing- let’s explore the edges of their range of expression- and our own! (recommended 14×17″ Sketch paper, oil pastel, soft woodless graphite/ 8B, round watercolor brush size 8, box gouache set or tube of vandyke brown or black gouache, brush tip marker like TOMBOW in beige and black, etc)
CONTRASTS: FINELINE PEn, CHUNKY MARKER
- How to set up our work/play area for success: ergonomic and energetic ways to work WITH and not AGAINST our whole body so that drawing becomes an extension of the way we move in the world with freedom and natural flow. Fashion Illustration is about people in LIFE. We follow our instincts and body to make figure drawing more effortless and comfortable, so our subjects also look alive in their bodies.
SMUDGES AND SCRATCHLINES, PROCESS IS EXPRESSIVE
- The MECHANICS of the body, usually resting on it’s feet for fashion drawing, while capturing the kind of movement and balance that bring the figure to LIFE on the page with the natural grace inherent in it.
WASHES OF COLOR
- PROPORTIONAL FOUNDATIONS that make building any body type approachable and beautiful Having an APPROACH that you use to structure your model drawing makes everything EASIER and consistent.
WHITE PENCILS FOR HIGHLIGHTS AND SHINE, TONED PAPERS
- EDGES: how do hair, skin, and different fabric textures show up on the page to reflect the character of how they move and drape? How do we reflect the weight, material, and flow of contrasting edges through our line?
FINE LINE ART PENS, BRUSH AND CHISEL TIP MARKERS
- FORM: light and dark, to lift your drawing off of the page and layers and 3 dimensional space
WOODLESS 6b GRAPHITE PENCIL
- MINDSET/ Journalling/ expansion: : what comes up for your when you draw? Inner critic voices? Inner child joy? Where do you “freeze up”? What role do you want your creativity to play in your life? What brings you here? REALLY? What do you want, how do you want to feel, and how can we move towards that? Tuning in and turning these keys can change your life.
CHARCOAL PENCILS
SOFT GRAPHITE OVER OIL PASTEL
OIL PASTELS, CRAYONS, DRY PASTELS, bLOCKS AND STICKS
FASHION SKETCH GROUP brings these energies together so that model drawing is a natural extension of having and moving in our own bodies! This is the secret to figure drawing that is vital, graceful, and solid.
GOUACHE WASH and BRUSH with pencil accents
FINELINE RIGGERING OR WATERCOLOR BRUSH FOR TRULE WET LINE WORK
CHUNKY SOFT GRAPHITE BLOCK (NOT A PENCIL) for exploration
ENDLESS “RECIPES” combine differENT MEDIA for endless possibilities in fashion drawing
colored pencil, oil pastel on sketch paper
GOUACHE AND PENCIL ON BRISTOL
CONTE CRAYONS
here I used a soft conte in a sepia color.
DIGITAL GOUACHE AND PENCIL EFFECTS
