Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Croquis templates for sketching Fashion Flats! (videos in this post) Maybe you aren’t familiar with using a croquis to create your fashion flats. (see some below) WHY ARE WE USING A TEMPLATE? If you have a body or garment “template”, that simply means that you have a body or shape that you can use as […]
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Imagine a Markers course for fashion sketching https://www.youtu.be/dQ4v-M0fjWE Are you overhwhelmed by the types, tips (of markers), brands, inks and other choices? THERE ARE SO MANY KINDS of Art Markers, Design Markers. Art markers available for fashion design sketching. Alcohol markers. Watercolor Markers. Brush tip, chisel tip, waterPROOF pens and markers, pigment markers, permanent markers,
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Fashion Illustrators: Using Tinted Papers It’s so exciting. Fashion illustration, Fashion Illustrators. ( more examples below) From traditional to experimental, from “analog” (paper and pencils, watercolors) to digital, to the range of voices out there, fashion illustration is a powerful voice in the world. I feel fashion illustration is a story of people. It says so
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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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Finally, a fashion illustration course that addresses design, too. That is fun, friendly, not “cut-throat” or cold. A vibrant, diverse, creative space where you can let loose, unwind, and let that magic in you take flight once and for all! And a fabulous community, to boot. Welcome to Fashion Illustration Course Spring Semester sessions are
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Sketching African Print Fashion by Stella Jean…. Hello! Here I use the Adobe Photoshop Sketch App on my iPad Mini using the 53Pencil stylus, to illustrate this beautiful ensemble by Stella Jean (LOVE)– of course– my love affair with African Prints is now going on 23 years…. Digital Fashion Sketching made it a lot of
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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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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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https://youtu.be/L5EuvTUVrnI?si=udiYh85nIW-Bl9DC OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING: 12 ACTIONABLE TIPS to START GROWING AS A FASHION SKETCHER I don’t like to make any strict rules about things when I teach or learn or live. But I do know the best way to learn to draw fashion is by drawing what you see/ OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING. I’m an idealist Virgo who
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