Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Model Magic is an all-level intensive designed to CHANGE THE WAY you see, draw, and use art supplies. And we use the standing “fashion” figure to do it. MODEL DRAWING MAGIC 17 WEEKLY lessons — A TransformationalFashion/ Style Figure Drawing ONLINE PROGRAM Â (without body distortion) You love fashion, you want to create beautiful images and […]
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Procreate App Tutorial for Fashion Illustration: PROCREATE APP’s PROS AND CONS [PROCREATE APP VIDEO TUTORIAL BELOW) Are you curious to try Procreate app for your fashion illustrations and creative sketching? Everyone is always talking about Procreate app for digital drawing/ digital painting.! Even if you aren’t a digital fashion or costume sketcher, you’ll find the step-by-step
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IPad Pro Fashion Illustration (10 minute video lesson below) okay, this title is a little misleading, because you can create an illustration like this on and iPad mini or other digital device, but I did in fact create THIS ON on my Ipad Pro with my Apple Pencil, so why not just call it that?
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Sloppy Fashion Sketching (p.s. all of the images on this post were sketched on iPad using digital painting apps. They are all portraits. Peruse the site to see other samples of my work, make yourself at home with the menu in the header and the search box at top right!) I had a wonderful experience
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Adobe Draw App for Fashion- it’s time to check it out! Adobe Draw App for Fashion? How’s that? Here’s some background, and samples of what you can do with it from my portfolio. Hi! I”m Laura Volpintesta. I’m a fashion designer and illustrator, Founder of FashionIllustrationTribe.com and a 20 years faculty, Assistant Professor of
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FABRIC, FORM AND FLOW: Eveningwear Fashion Design Illustration Online course In my 25+ years teaching  fashion design and fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design, I always found two distinct kinds of fashion students: There are the  ones who like to design ready-to-wear, or street clothes, athletic, outerwear, weekend wear, knitwear, avant-garde, casual, “ladies-who-lunch”, whatever….
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Share art on social media- YOUR ORIGINAL art. Do you CRINGE when you see what your art looks like when you share it on instagram, Facebook, or twitter? You don’t know how two share art on social media yet… but you can learn! For my new students to get off on the right foot, here
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https://youtu.be/DyXCPUW_Pk4 Laura Volpintesta, Fashion Educator, Illustrator, Designer, Author of the Language of Fashion Design and co-author of the Fashion Design Resource and Specification Book. Fashion Design Faculty Parsons the New School for Design since 1997. contact: info@fashionillustrationtribe.com Here are my TOP RESOURCES for FASHION STUDENTS! Thi slist is based on 30 years of teaching (and
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Movement, color, action, energy, spirit, joy, emotion, art, power, message, feeling, culture, sound…. I love illustrating Musicians and Dancers! I am a musician and a dancer, so that probably helps, but even before I got deeper into those talents, I found myself attracted to figure drawing and model drawing above all else. And, when I
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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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Dip your toes into everything we learn here at Fashion Illustration Tribe inside this content-rich learning bundle at a fraction of the price of my dedicated courses.Â
Exercises, resources, projects, tutorials.
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Laura Volpintesta, founder, FashionIllustrationTribe.com
