Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
#FLOWERFRAMEDFACES is a creative fashion art challenge for all skill levels WHY a challenge? It’s not a competition or a contest. A challenge is for energizing and inspiring! It’s amazing for meeting people, and Intersecting around topics we share in common! I love mixing and mingling among creatives learning, encouraging, inspiring, and growing. There is […]
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I’ve heard many say they were traumatized by their fashion studies. I might be one of them. But art and design study has all of the potential to be an experience of pure grace. Observing art and design delights, inspires, moves us and improves our lives. CREATING art and design aligns us with being open
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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
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This page originally housed a temporary livestream masterclass Stay informed about upcoming events- follow me on instagram for daily updates, tips and livestreams! I’ve provided some Procreate timelapse videos as well as two instructional videos so you can get a feel for the look and capabilities of digital drawing basics with Procreate app. I use
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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 design development sketching? 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.
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) Toned paper, oil pastel gesture, and graphite lines. Study from live fashion drawing session FASHION drawing from gesture to line I can’t emphasize enough the power of drawing fashion from Gesture to Line. Am I speaking another language ? I’ll explain. The most common approach- and most
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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”?
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My first job interview as a fashion designer was to be a fabric and print stylist at Gap Inc, and I was asked to complete a project for my interview where I created a color palette and group of fabrics for two seasons, transition from summer to fall, and fall. In today’s video, I share
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Digital fashion sketching with Tayasui Sketches app There aren’t many apps I enjoy as much as I do digital fashion sketching with Tayasui Sketches app. It’s without fail my number one choice for any beginner or pro getting started with digital freehand fashion sketching on an iPad or tablet. (Tayasui Sketches App isn’t any the
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An entirely iPad/ digital fashion drawing course! with Laura Volpintesta About Faces is my go-to digital course for learning faces, and at the same time 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,
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