Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
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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Not only in your fashion illustrations, but in life: When you finally allow the shadows to show themselves and speak up, your work and life become beautifully “round” , rich, dimensional and integrated! GRAB YOUR JOURNAL I LOVE TO TALK ABOUT SHADING AND SHADOWS! What a beautiful metaphor. And technique for fashion art, sketches, design
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Whether you are a sketching, illustration OR fashion design student/ designer… -VIDEO BELOW You still want to know the names of things (like flares, gathers, seamlines, armholes, and all kinds of specific details). TODAY’s VIDEO is all about that good stuff of fashion designing! If you love fashion and fashion design, or are a fashion
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VIDEO TUTORIAL: the Dress Forms for Fashion Designers You’re going to love today’s VIDEO POST– Let’s talk all about dress forms for fashion designers and students of fashion design. It’s one of the very most important supplies for any fashion maker! Do you own a fashion mannequin/ dress form for sewing/ designing/ patternmaking and draping
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I made myself this dress by cutting into folded fabric using basic patternmaking techniques….. so in a way, you don’t always need a pattern once you learn some of these skills! Patternmaking Basics: How to add simple Flares to the Basic Skirt Sloper Let’s dip our toes into the world of fashion patternmaking for design
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YOU ASKED , YOU ASKED, I HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE A RESOURCE PAGE FULL OF PATTERNMAKING TUTORIALS FOR YOU! DIVE IN AND GET FAMILIAR WITH THE LANGUAGE OF PATTERNMAKING FOR FASHION DESIGN with video patternmaking tutorials Patternmaking tutorials Laura Volpintesta, founder , Fashioni Illustration Triibe FREE PATTERNMAKING TUTORIAL ( plus draping) links: FASHION PATTERNMAKING TUTORIALS:
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The Role of Pleasure in Learning and Creativity Learning, Leading and Creating through Pleasure Hello, creative souls! .Know that:YOU ARE ENOUGH. I know it’s lovely to be humble when you learn something new,Let’s look at the Role of Pleasure in Learning and Creativity (learning is inherently humbling in a beautiful way as we open up in vulnerability to
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Let’s look at basic “dart manipulations. In today’s Vídeo tutorial, (click images to view) we use a 1/4 scale sloper (basic fitted pattern block with no seam allowance and one dart) … PS LEARN IT ALL IN MY ONLINE COURSE PATTERNMAKING DEMYSTIFIED And we’ll move the dart into the shoulder! Then we’ll turn it into
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and don’t forget the link to my patternmaking online course:! https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/20644/about… this sales page includes TWO FREE PATTERNMAKING VIDEOS! PATTERNMAKING SUPPLIES Here’s a list of supplies that I recently shared with my Patternmaking class at Parsons in NYC. Don’t be shy to ask and I’m so excited to be on this Patternmaking discovery with you.
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Click the image below to view today’s video. For me is the perfect marriage—-Jazz and art, music and design, shape, color, and emotion…. If you know me you know there is no separation between music and visual arts. And there is no art without improvisation. The unexpected, the unplanned, the great mystery called in….. Where
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