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Fashion Drawing with Markers Everyone asks me about markers, markers, markers for fashion illustration! I don’t usually teach fashion drawing with markers. I’m not a HUGE fan…. They’re smelly, toxic, dry up when you need them, and are thin and flat. Paint is color customizable, rich, organic in feel, applied with a brush to textural […]
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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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COPIC MARKERS for Fashion sketching: MARKER PAPER Before we can talk about your Copic markers for fashion illustration, we have got to set you up with the right paper. Marker paper is notoriously sheer, thin, and often bright-white and smooth. That’s why I stayed away from Copic markers and other markers for decades. I was so
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Fashion Illustration, Fashion Art, Fashion Design and Drawing Coaching and Courses! MY SIGNATURE SUITE OF FASHION EDUCATION COURSES: Learn Classic Fashion Illustration and Design Techniques -online with me, Laura Volpintesta: fashion author, illustrator, designer, and creative catalyst with 27 years teaching fashion design at Parsons School of Design in NYC and globally. I also pioneered
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Fashion Proportions: Are we finally going to talk about “fashion proportions?” That’s kind of funny. Me blogging in a few hundred words about a topic that could easily be a BOOK. (ORIGINALLY POSED JANUARY 2014, updated 2026) People’s eyes get “used” to anything, if they see it enough. Yet we still haven’t gotten to
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Watercolor wash Techniques using Tombow Brush Tip Marker Today’s post is going to look at some of the range and possibilities available to you when you explore watercolor wash with markers for your fashion drawing! This sketch above was a demonstration that happened in class session today- first. I sketched the model’s figure lightly in
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How do we even define “plus size” fashion model vs another? If, In the fashion design industry, sizing is unregulated and inconsistent across the board. In fact; in fashion schools, students are still learning —and teachers are teaching and illustrators often perpetuating the use of— proportions that don’t exist in human form, then where do
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https://youtu.be/d8CIbFOD5HQ Design Inspiration: Choosing Fashion Fabrics for Sketching and Presenting Choosing Fabric and inspiration are absolutely integral to the fashion designer’s creative portfoio and design process.I usually ALWAYS sketch with fabric IN MY HANDS.I say it again and again and again and again: FABRIC IS YOUR RAW MATERIAL- there literally IS NO DESIGN WITHOUT YOUR
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An entirelyiPad/ digital fashion drawing course! with Laura Volpintesta About Faces is my go-to digital course for learning faces by using fashion illustration apps. DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS? about the fashion Illustration tools that live inside your iPad or digital device (on app store or Google play)? Read the list, but take a deep breath- you
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Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! >>>>>>>>>>WATCH TODAY’S TUTORIAL VIDEO by clicking the images in the post. Actually, I discourage using just colored pencils to create fashion sketches because they can be so thin and dry looking. Everyone knows, I love vibrant, vital, fluid, dynamic effects in fashion illustration! Today, i was
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