Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Fashion Runway Diversity (and education diversity, and media diversity,…) I started my business years ago and became a designer LONG BEFORE THAT. Not only that, but before I even went to Parsons School of Design to become a designer, I had a vision. And it was very personal, and super-strong. I wanted diversity. I WANTED […]
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IPad Pro Fashion Illustration (10 minute video lesson below) okay, this title is a little misleading, because you can create an illustration like this on and iPad mini or other digital device, but I did in fact create THIS ON on my Ipad Pro with my Apple Pencil, so why not just call it that?
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Sloppy Fashion Sketching (p.s. all of the images on this post were sketched on iPad using digital painting apps. They are all portraits. Peruse the site to see other samples of my work, make yourself at home with the menu in the header and the search box at top right!) I had a wonderful experience
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JUNE 20-21-22, 2017 Plus Size Fashion Drawing Workshop- online livestream and community private group with 4 week access to replays and feedback A PLUS SIZE FASHION DRAWING ONLINE WORKSHOP FINALLY! ONE OF THE reasons I founded Fashion Illustraton Tribe was because I couldn’t believe that the top schools were still teaching distorted body image to
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Adobe Draw App for Fashion- it’s time to check it out! Adobe Draw App for Fashion? How’s that? Here’s some background, and samples of what you can do with it from my portfolio. Hi! I”m Laura Volpintesta. I’m a fashion designer and illustrator, Founder of FashionIllustrationTribe.com and a 20 years faculty, Assistant Professor of
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Learn How to Draw Fashion on the iPad Pro? Wondering??? I got you covered! This example isn’t only for IPad Pro, actually these drawing tools are avaliable for you on Android, desktop Mac, Iphone and Android and tablets. In this video, I’ll use the Ipad Pro that i JUST got and use the same techniques
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FASHION ILLUSTRATION APPS: a whole new world! (scroll down) to CATCH a time-lapse video below of Fashion Illustration Apps in action! I’m a fashion illustrator, teacher, author and designer who ALWAYS resisted digital drawing, digital illustration, and digital tools. I HATED THEM. Why? As a professor at Parsons School of Design, i often saw my
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Eveningwear Illustration: Form and Flow Fashion Design Illustration Online course is here! In my 25 years teaching fashion design and illustration portfolio on the college level, I’ve found there are generally two categories of students: Some of you like to design ready-to-wear, or street clothes, athletic, outerwear, weekend wear, casual, “ladies-who-lunch”, whatever…. AND THERE ARE
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FABRIC, FORM AND FLOW: Eveningwear Fashion Design Illustration Online course In my 25+ years teaching fashion design and fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design, I always found two distinct kinds of fashion students: There are the ones who like to design ready-to-wear, or street clothes, athletic, outerwear, weekend wear, knitwear, avant-garde, casual, “ladies-who-lunch”, whatever….
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CREATIVE EDUCATION I always say, “Art is your Birthright”. Nobody has the right to take that flow away from you. I am THRILLED to share with you my interview with the bright, breath-of-fresh-air, fomer student of mine and Armani Xchange fashion creative director Shafiq Haddad! A former Parsons School of Design Fashion Design student of
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