Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
MARKERS or GOUACHE for Fashion Sketching? MARKERS: Markers for fashion drawing and illustration can be fun, novel, quick, handy. I was very excited the first time I used art markers and I even have a favorite brand. Chartpack markers (below left) are really wet with a softish chisel tip. ( DO YOUR RESEARCH- on chemical […]
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Croquis figures drawn once can be dressed again and again as flats ,fashion sketches, or illustrations A dress form can also be a croquis template that you sketch your designs onto. several rotations also is helpful in working out your design ideas SCROLL DOWN(the men’s, women’s, plus size fashion, and girl’s croquis templates are below
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Choosing Fashion Fabrics for Portfolio Design Collections (VIDEO lesson enclosed) Above, a fabric board inspiring a design collection before sketching. Every designer has their own aesthetic, voice and style. I tend to lean towards colors, textures and prints that are vivid , but your own sensibility could be radically different. .. What I know for
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The Balance Line/ Plumbline in Fashion and Figure Sketching I love jazz music and bought a copy of Matisse’s book Jazz many years ago at the Strand bookstore on 12 street in the Village in NYC….. When I found the above quotes in the book, my heart jumped because I felt he said something that I always
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For those of you who read last week’s post about gouache fashion illustration, (“FOUR GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN”T LIVE WITHOUT…..”) here is more on the subject. But in today’s sketch, the ensemble is ANYTHING BUT white!! Full of vibrant color, this piece was inspired by the Ndebele culture of South Africa. Here is another piece
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“Finding your style”….. (I’ve included 2 videos at the bottom: one about WHY we do what we do, and another aimed at those who want to design fashion but “can’t draw”. WHY you do it has a lot to do with how your style unfolds!) What does it mean to you? Please chime into the conversation below
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Written at a textbook level, this work’s utility lies not in critical or historical perspective, but in its omnivorous, enthusiastic gathering and mapping out of global ideas to serve as inspiration for students beginning to learn the language of fashion. -Lindsey King, Yale University, for the Library Journal I’ve always loved writing, fashion and
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What are “fashion drawing proportions” all about? Proportions in fashion drawing What does it mean to master proportions for fashion drawing? A lot of people, especially in the old days when i was a student, believed there were rules about how much you had to lie about what a woman’s body can look to be
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What is Fashion Illustration Tribe? This tribe I envisioned 10 (now 13 years ago) in 2013 is inclusive, open, be yourself and come-as-you-are, where -you -are, creative, passionate, daring home for fashion studies. Where we embrace fashion, art, our feminine nature, wisdom, imagination, freedom, creativity, community, and life. We love music, we love humanity and humanness,
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