Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Fashion Figure Sketching FILES HELLO LOVES! How can you jump right into fashion sketching from a model when you don’t have anyone around to model for you? SKETCHING THE FIGURE FROM OBSERVATION As I watched the university cut fashion models out of the budget, my heart broke. They were replaced by digital software courses. BUT […]
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DESIGNING Fashion PrintED PATTERNS How can you create original art for fashion fabrics, exploring printed patterns for fabric in simple repeat? What is the theory involved in designing a tile that can be multiplied infinitely in every direction, creating a printed fashion fabric to wear? Scroll down to watch a full instructional video. MATERIALS FOR the PRINTED
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https://youtu.be/PpH4UDgQ0k0 China Marker for Fashion Batik Sketching (video on this page) There are many technical professional and creative ways that I use China Marker for fashion sketching. Usually I use it in fashion illustrations, but I also love how it works perfectly to create batik fabric effects by resisiting watercolor. CHINA MARKER as a sketching
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DRAWING FACES FOR FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS (VIDEOS ENCLOSED) https://youtu.be/1WaQIRMmLW8?si=YC142KNIXZY9Q-Ak I still remember learning to draw faces. It was a long struggle, and so uncomfortable because every time I drew a face that I didn’t like, it stared right back at me anyway, like it was mocking me! For this reason, to this very day, I LOVE
Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! I often discourage my Parsons Fashion Design students from illustrating with ONLY colored pencil because they simply never spring to vivid life on the page as easily as gouache. COLORED PENCIL with BLACK INK PEN Plus, it takes a LOT OF MUSCLE to make colored pencils
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FASHION DRAWING IN REAL TIME Since my first experience in a live fashion drawing model session with timed poses, I was HOOKED! Today, as in every week for over 20 years, (online only for 6) I hosted one of my beloved figure drawing sessions for fashion. EXPLORE YOUR ART SUPPLIES Fashion Drawing sessions are powerful
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Figure Drawing Foundations Figure drawing foundations for me are the gateway into the glorious world of fashion design illustration. Through studying and observing the balance, forms, flow and proportions of the human figure, we open the gates into the wide world of drawing. With the fashion / standing, posed figure as our focus, we
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Fashion Sketch Apps I love and recommend: Fashion illustration apps can be WONDERFUL. I wouldn’t recommend diving into them without ever exploring paper and analog sketching tools as a foundation, but after that I think that everyone could enjoy having a fashion illustration app in their life to create and illustrate. Don’t forget that I’ve
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https://youtu.be/DwHEO1XOnYI?si=fHdIbwNPZeelKIJ2 Ankara Fashion Illustration…. If you’re passionate about African fashion and Wax Prints, like me, you’ll enjoy this. Remember that If you want a better look, zoom in close to see finer details. Digital fashion sketch, above. Marker fashion sketch, below Ankara Fashion illustration on iPad or Gouache The approach is the same whether
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Fashion Illustration, Fashion Art, Fashion Design and Drawing Coaching and Courses! MY SIGNATURE SUITE OF FASHION EDUCATION COURSES: Learn Classic and creative fashion illustration and design techniques 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
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