Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
A group of fashion fabrics- a fabric story- for a design collection by Laura Volpintesta Fabric Swatches for your fashion design collections or portfolio-VIDEOS ENCLOSED Choosing and using fabric swatches in fashion sketches…..what does it look like, where to start? (I’m so glad for my clients’ questions). Yesterday one student asked: “why would I want […]
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FASHION DESIGN ELEMENTS for your SKETCHBOOK My first book is “the Language of Fashion Design, 26 Principles every Fashion Designer should know”. Today’s post includes rich video lectures about fashion, and below each video has fashion design sketchbook and design journalling exercises for you to act on RIGHT NOW to build your fashion design portfolio! I gave
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Have you always wanted to draw? I always did. I doodled shapes on all my schoolbooks, all day long, while anchored to a schooldesk, listening to boring lectures (…As if I didn’t know I had an innate, trustable voice that told me what I wanted to learn and to do and to be…) But I
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Let’s dive deep into the benefits and possibilities when you study MODEL DRAWING
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Here’s the replay of my talk from my book the Language of Fashion Design!!! Get inspired, Comment with any questions… grab your fashion design notebook/ sketchbook , and grab the assignment prompt too! Here’s the video replay: I’m also excited to share the link to Soulful Fashion Foundation Immersion Sketching and illustration program PLUS 4
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Tayasui Sketches is an iPad or tablet app that includes a digital brush pen tip for line drawing. Today let’s talk about the benefits of working with a digital brush pen and how I created my illustration!
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Tayasui Sketches app has truly beautiful textural watercolor effects for figure drawing, fashion illustration and all kinds of watercolor art. I’ll show you how I created this illustration
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Laura Volpintesta (@lauravolpintesta) Fashion Sketching with Gouache masterclass I loved this masterclass.  I love the conversations we had and the dress we created on the livestream. I loved your questions, your curiosities, and your spirits in the room! It is amazing what we do when we come together
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ABOUT FACES IPAD ILLUSTRATION COURSE DRAWING FACES: the Profile Face (VIDEO ENCLOSED) Drawing faces isn’t just “faces.” This is one of the reasons we have such a difficult time with it at first.  … Because drawing a face is actually drawing a HEAD, including the features, the hair, and the spirit of the woman (or
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2018 iPhone app of the year: Procreate Pocket Fashion Illustration (video below) Today I’m going to take you into the 2018 iPhone app of the year: Procreate Pocket, and create a fashion illustration of an original design . Come along, IN TODAY’S VIDEO BELOW I’ll show you how to poke around the app, texplain what
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