Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
FASHION FABRICS [4 VIDEOS BELOW]: a whole language of their own. When we look at fabrics, we ask ourselves: How do we describe texture, weight, drape, quality, content of a fabric? Are there key words that we can use to communicate about this fabric? How do we recognize the kind of fashion fabric we ARE […]
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Figure Drawing Foundations Figure drawing foundations for me are the gateway into the glorious world of fashion design illustration. Through studying and observing the balance, forms, flow and proportions of the human figure, we open the gates into the wide world of drawing. With the fashion / standing, posed figure as our focus, we
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Fashion Sketch Apps I love and recommend: Fashion illustration apps can be WONDERFUL. I wouldn’t recommend diving into them without ever exploring paper and analog sketching tools as a foundation, but after that I think that everyone could enjoy having a fashion illustration app in their life to create and illustrate. Don’t forget that I’ve
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Watercolor Fashion Portrait Process The purpose of this watercolor fashion portrait is to get you excited to create. I hope it makes your fingers tingle, your heart beat, and your eyes remember that you have visions- and grab some paper or your iPad or anything, even a napkin and a ballpoint pen, and bring something
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Let’s explore fashion, beauty, cultura and history through the photography of Seydou Keita. Remember the Claire McCardell Museum Visit post? Remember the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Museum Visit? Did you enjoy Tamara de Lempicka’s luscious paintings and carefully sculpted forms? I love a day at the museum, and strive to remember that fashion is, or can
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Digital Fashion Sketchbooks Now before I go too far, let’s make it clear that this post is about a digital fashion sketchbook, but that the layout, process and development in MOST ways is no different than for ANY kind of fashion sketchbooks! Because I did this work digitally (sketching freehand on my iPad Pro), I
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COPIC MARKERS for Fashion sketching: MARKER PAPER Before we can talk about your Copic markers for fashion illustration, we have got to set you up with the right paper. Marker paper is notoriously sheer, thin, and often bright-white and smooth. That’s why I stayed away from Copic markers and other markers for decades. I was so
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Fashion Sketching with iPad apps (videos) Last night I shared fashion sketching examples from my ipad created with Procreate app during my weekly live zoom group. Fashion Sketch Group is about drawing from OBSERVATION: drawing from something we are looking at. TODAY’S EXAMPLES ARE SOMETHING DIFFERENT– FASHION SKETCHING FROM OUR IMAGINATION Today’s fashion illustrations don’t come
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Drawing Fashion Flats for Design Learning to draw Fashion Flats for design is an essential part of the fashion design process, and you can learn the ABCs with me! I’m excited to tell you about my Fashion Drawing and Design course on Craftsy.com “Designing Fashion Flats”. You can click IMAGES on this page to view the
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https://youtu.be/DuEao5sk0HE?si=juDVP5r06vmnyTH0 Here are 10 reasons to learn Fashion Design Terms: How can we talk about fashion without fashion design terminology? ( i hope you enjoy the videos inside this post! one abvoe and one below, they will build your technical fashion design vocabuary). Whether we are fashion writers (like me), museum tour givers, running an
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