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Fashion Illustration Art supplies

Fashion Illustration Art Supplies!!! Grab your fashion illustration art supplies! Time to illustrate! It’s a new day…. one more opportunity to share your wonderfulness with everyone you come in contact with.  Share your sunshine…giving is receiving. Let’s go get sketching. Today’s reminder is: TURN UP SOME GOOD TUNES WHEN YOU DRAW!!!! What I wanted to […]

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Shadows in Fashion Illustrations

https://youtu.be/WmNB1BpH5G4 Not only in your fashion illustrations, but in life: (as a bonus, I’ve included the mindset/journalling for fashion students/designers/artists into this post. It’s powerful stuff!)  When you finally allow the shadows to show themselves and speak up, your work and life become beautifully “round” , rich, dimensional and integrated! I LOVE TO TALK ABOUT

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Shading Fashion Illustrations

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 if you want, but

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Procreate app fashion design sketching on Ipad pro by Laura Volpintesta

Digital Drawing Basics with Procreate

This page originally housed a temporary livestream masterclass Stay informed about upcoming events-  follow me on instagram for daily updates, tips and livestreams! I’ve provided some Procreate timelapse videos as well as two instructional videos so you can get a feel for the look and capabilities of digital drawing basics with Procreate app. I use

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Fashion Creative Mindset VIDEOS

Creative mindset- support and reminders for fashion artists Welcome, creative fireball! Here are some new videos SPECIFICALLY about learning, growth, self-expression, creative communities, and learning environments. HOW WE FEEL MATTERS. How we learn matters. The environments we create and learn in matter. How we speak to ourselves when we create matters. CREATIVE MINDSET VIDEO 1

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How to Draw a Fashion Figure

How to Draw a Fashion Figure: video lesson This is the foundation for so many things we can do! In today’s video, you can get a real feel for the motion and movement of sketching as I let you know step -by-step what i’m doing when I’m drawing the fashion figure. MY method is CUSTOMIZABLE

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Fashion Illustration Techniques: Textures and Contours

HOW TO DRAW TEXTURES IN FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS LET’S TALK about capturing FABRIC TEXTURES in FASHION ILLUSTRATION. Fabric textures as expressed through… …..edges,  shapes,  shadows,  curves,  textures,  and lines.   HOW DO WE CAPTURE and COMMUNICATE the surface, drape and texture of  our fashion fabric textures when we are sketching fashion designs???  How do we visually describe

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Fashion Sketching Timelapses

ADOBE FRESCO APP FASHION SKETCHING https://youtube.com/shorts/vCPIo2QnURc?si=cmt3akfuO0bcOrvG Every week on Zoom I host livestream fashion sketching sessions where members (and myself ) can bring whatever art tools and supplies we want. I curate music and figures, poses (1-20 mins) and fashion  images of fantastic garments for us to study, practice, explore and sketch from. TIMELAPSE SHOWS THE

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