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Laura Volpintesta I’m a fashion design professor, author, designer and illustrator who helps creative and professional women everywhere and anywhere fully form the skills that fashion has called them to in a deep and playful, encouraging environment, My offering is take you through intentional journeys to learn art supplies, draping, sewing, patternmaking, fitting, sketching, fashion […]
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THE WEBINAR HAS EXPIRED so I’m inviting you into the fashion creative learning experience. I hope you enjoy this video all about fashion design education with me, and ge tto know me a bit. Also, there are tutorials and resources all over this blog! Use the search bar on my home page, browse my recent
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Fashion Model Drawing Class! (check out the whole intensive program here!) Subscribe to website for free learning materials to get started fashion model drawing class: sketching AND designing. THIS FASHION MODEL DRAWING CLASS Webinar HAS EXPIRED BUT CHECK OUT THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS BELOW! SUBSCRIBE to my youtube channel to keep in the loop! Several video
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Want to join a Fashion Design Sketch community Online? Fashion Tribalistas Facebook Group is my free, online community for beginner to advanced fashion sketchers to share their sketches with a positive, supportive and diverse community. Just click the link and then “join” to be admitted to the group. Not a place for promoting YOUR fashion
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It’s time to take your ideas, your message, your feeling, your style… and bring it to life on paper…. Fashion School: Sketching Flats for Fashion Design (VIDEO LESSON ENCLOSED) In design studios, fashion flats are HUGELY important. Sketching illustrations with swatches in full color and posed models also has its place and does so much
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Of course you want to be able to learn to draw… You want to learn to draw both realistically, and creatively, and freely. You want to use color, paint, create the same kind of beauty that you see and appreciate around you in nature, art, design around you in the world every day. It moves
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SHADING FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Shading is what gives depth, dimension, and 3D form to your fashion illustraitons- it is easier on the eye, and by its very nature even adds texture, emphasizes details and layers. Also, shading won’t let you get away with drawing emaciated, super skinny distorted figures (skinny is fine, but not skinner than
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LET’S TALK about capturing FABRIC TEXTURES in FASHION ILLUSTRATION …..Edges, shapes, shadows, curves, textures, and lines. HOW DO WE CAPTURE and COMMUNICATE the texture, surface, and drape of our fashion fabrics when we are sketching fashion designs??? How do we describe the thickness, the fall, the movement, the amount of shine, bumps, smoothness, fuzz, crispness,
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Sketching Fashion Figures, or any figure, in profile, always seems to present unique challenges. The most common problem is that the figures become too thin when rotated into profile, and that we don’t understand what the anatomy is doing. I’m here to help you with that today. There’s also a video in this post, to
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Fashion Design Course Online!!! Find Your Voice IN YOUR SPACE and AT YOUR PACE Dive into a intensive fashion design course online in 12 weeks. With an upbeat, veteran fashion illustration and design instructor with 25 years experience teaching fashion design at Parsons in NYC. YOU CAN DO THIS! WHAT IF you could sketch bodies
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