Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
FASHION DRAWING APPS are you afraid of them? Here are -12 REASONS why I’ve fallen in love with fashion drawing on my iPad! I have always taught art and fashion sketching with gouache, watercolors, pencils, ink pens…. and still do! Exactly one year ago, though, I started exploring drawing apps on my new iPad to […]
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Welcome to Fashion Illustration Tribe’s Suite of Online Fashion Design and Illustration courses, Coaching and Programs with Laura Volpintesta! Welcome to your home -and-hub for quality fashion online courses made with heart, soul, and loads of experience from my 20 plus years teaching at Presitgious Parsons fashion design program in NYC. Like you, I’ve always
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Digital Fashion Drawing Online course You know me…..! You know how obsessed I am about natural, analog art supplies!. So- Why digital sketching? I’m all about smudging, rolling up our sleeves, getting messy feeling textures with our bare hands…. and re-creating them on paper… Those of you who’ve been following me for some time have
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I’M HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT MY FASHION DESIGN BOOK TRANSLATIONS! Remember my lil old book? (you can order it here) The Language of Fashion Design, 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know Well, it’s growing and traveling!!!!!! (and click here below to view readings and masterclasses directly from the book!) I am celebrating big
Sketching fashion from scratch….. join me this summer and discover what you can do! SUMMER SESSION 2016 FREEDOM FASHION INTENSIVE! use the coupon code MEMORIALDAY through midnight June2 for half off the price! CLASSES START JUNE 8 click the image for info see the video below that to get a sneak peek at some of
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Fashion Figure Drawing – LIVE! So, here’s what happened on Periscope.tv/Lvolpintesta today. I created a fashion figure drawing from scratch, working from an image that I liked, then added in the fashion details so that it looked real and gave clear construction and design information, because I love to do that :0). I took an
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(Don’t click this image….click the one below to view the video!) OI!! I love Brazilian Fashion Designers!!! Any of you who know me already know about my big romance with Brazil. Music, fashion, craft, culture, history, legend, cuisine, everything…… there is so much that Brazilian culture has added to my experience of life in this
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Fashion Design: The Language of Fashion Design is a book I wrote that was released in February 2014 on Rockport Publishers. It was a unique and challenging experience, that I was afraid to take on at first…. and I’m now so glad that I did! I’m also proud and happy to see that it’s been translated
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Designing Fashion Print Repeats with Paper (analog process) repeating tile print for fashion fabric designed by Laura Volpintesta using markers Before you start learning the technical concept of creating a repeating fashion print design for fabric, you may want to choose a color palette and motif inspiration. And so, here’s a tour of a croquis
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Fashion Design Sketching LIVE! Are you curious about fashion design sketching? I’ve been teaching since 1997 and love it with all my heart. I’m also a Periscope Educator and was so happy to be nominated this month for a Periaward for Best Educator on Facebook! Here is one of my videos from a Periscope Livestream
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