Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
MY BOOKS (scroll down for course descriptions!) My book the Language of Fashion Design available Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others. The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know the Fashion Design Reference and Specification Manual co- author Laura Volpintesta FASHION PROGRAMS: Fashion Design INFUSION 8 livestream masterclass replays, from research, […]
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After resisting digital art supplies for decades, since 2015 I’ve been shouting from the rooftops that Tayasui Sketches is my favorite (mobile) app for fashion design illustration and sketching….. HANDS DOWN! However, I usually use it on my ipad. But sometimes I have a student or client who doesn’t have an iPad. (I first used
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Digital Fashion Illustration apps Today I’ll share with you a series of digital fashion illustrations I made with apps on my ipad over the past few months –of the fashion designer Layana Aguilar. (yes, I teach and coach on model drawing, analog and digital fashion illustration, and fashion technical design so make sure you join
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CREATIVE SELF-EXPRESSION: Drawing without Fear [VIDEO SERIES ON THIS PAGE]  It’s as-yet unthinkable experience of creative self-expression for many …to draw without fear. BUT NOT FOR YOU! NOT ANY MORE. WELCOME TO DRAWING WITHOUT FEAR! I’m Laura Volpintesta. I’ve been successfully guiding creatives and aspiring designers to DRAW without FEAR for almost 3 decades
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Today I’m happy to share with you a bouquet of fashion design masterclasses, Join me as I read from my book “The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know”…. and we discuss the images and concepts that are fundamental to fashion design and fashion illustration!When I got the book contract, (view
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) 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 frustrating- to drawing fashion is flat, dark, clean, “perfect lines” that aren’t so dynamic or descriptive. THIS IS NOT A
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One FANTASTIC Fashion Drawing app can change EVERYTHING! (scroll to bottom for a video example) And for me, that’s Tayasui Sketches app. Oh, I could go on all day about it, and i WILL if you just give me a chance! I’ll try to give you just a few insights into WHY this app surpasses
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Have you ever delved into the experience of a Figure Drawing Course? You’ll get so much more than you bargained for. Personal expression, preceision, process, freedom, vision….. https://youtu.be/TiEuMfzU-PM How could you expand and explore your approaches to drawing to feel more free, expressive, and satisfied with the experience? How can you turn it into an
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Fashion and Costume Sketching on iPad While today I’m here to talk about model drawing, figure drawing and my course enrollment opening today, I’m going to show you how Model Drawing is the foundation of Fashion and Costume sketching on the iPad or anywhere else. Tayasui Sketches app, as you all probably know by now,
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https://youtu.be/vlgHYF5Pq58https://youtu.be/Gk_a0GlZ4dI Drawing– particularly figure drawing and even worse, “fashion” model drawing, can bring out our worst critical and perfectionist tendencies!! Today’s short video is so close to my heart. How do we overcome perfectionism and break into a new freedom of expression that also is more accurate? Yes, it’s possible. the way you look at
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