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LAURA VOLPINTESTA I’m a fashion design professor, author, designer and illustrator who helps creative and professional women everywhere and anywhere fully form the skills that fashion has called them to in a deep and playful, encouraging environment, My offering is take you through intentional journeys to learn art supplies, draping, sewing, patternmaking, fitting, sketching, fashion illustration, collection conception, […]
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Fashion Model Drawing Class! (check out the whole intensive program here!) Subscribe to website for free learning materials to get started fashion model drawing class: sketching AND designing. THIS FASHION MODEL DRAWING CLASS Webinar HAS EXPIRED BUT CHECK OUT THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS BELOW! SUBSCRIBE to my youtube channel to keep in the loop! Several video
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Want to join a Fashion Design Sketch community Online? Fashion Tribalistas Facebook Group is my free, online community for beginner to advanced fashion sketchers to share their sketches with a positive, supportive and diverse community. Just click the link and then “join” to be admitted to the group. Not a place for promoting YOUR fashion
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It’s time to take your ideas, your message, your feeling, your style… and bring it to life on paper…. Fashion School: Sketching Flats for Fashion Design (VIDEO LESSON ENCLOSED) In design studios, fashion flats are HUGELY important. Sketching illustrations with swatches in full color and posed models also has its place and does so much
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Sketching Fashion Figures, or any figure, in profile, always seems to present unique challenges. The most common problem is that the figures become too thin when rotated into profile, and that we don’t understand what the anatomy is doing. I’m here to help you with that today. There’s also a video in this post, to
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FASHION DESIGN SCHOOL PORTFOLIOS: what do I need? Hello Gorgeous Visionary! A crop of new videos are up on my YouTube channel suporting fashion portfolios. Informational and inspirational, Your fashion portfolio MUST BE INSPIRED, above all! You want to show what you know, how you think, how you see things through, how you solve problems, how you present things,what your
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Designing fashion with fashion flat sketches Hi! first off I just released a Craftsy.com class all about designing fashion thru flat sketches–designing them, sketching them, from beginner to more advanced. techniques. I’m so proud of it and I adored this experience of working with their brilliant team and filming in their beautiful studios!!! Really and
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Fashion Illustration: Presentation FORMATS WHAT’S IT ALL FOR?– That depends on the project. Hopefully, all of your fashion design drawing presentations are guided by love, inspired and infused with beauty and care. AND, every project you do has a particular and unique angle, need, purpose, or requirement, right? We always want to be clear what
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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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the Fringes of Fashion Illustration Just two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about movement, and when I was done, I couldn’t stop thinking about drawing fringe!!! NOTHING MOVES LIKE FRINGE!!! My first prom dress had a beaded fringe at the hem… Like on the tiara below… And when I think of carnaval
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