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Digital Fashion Drawing Online course You know me…..! You know how obsessed I am about natural, analog art supplies!. So- Why digital sketching? I’m all about smudging, rolling up our sleeves, getting messy feeling textures with our bare hands…. and re-creating them on paper… Those of you who’ve been following me for some time have […]
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DIGITAL FASHION ILLUSTRATION on the IPAD PINTEREST Yes, I’m on Pinterest. Are you? The link to see my boards or follow me is here. I share a lot of inspiration, research images, model poses for sketching from ,and boards of different garment details to sketch from or use as design inspiration too. I create these
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DIGITAL FASHION SKETCHING on iPad…. how did I get from here….. (design on instagram by @by_natacha_baco) Natacha Baco website/ e-shop to here…. on the iPad? Find out, in the video, above or below! The actual slideshow with commentary begins at 4minutes, after my introduction. I use pencil, marker, and brush tools to
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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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Digital fashion sketching with Tayasui Sketches app There aren’t many apps I enjoy as much as I do digital fashion sketching with Tayasui Sketches app. It’s without fail my number one choice for any beginner or pro getting started with digital freehand fashion sketching on an iPad or tablet. (Tayasui Sketches App isn’t any the
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PLUS SIZE Fashion Illustration Tutorial How do we define plus size fashion Illustration? …I’m using the term “PLUS SIZE FASHION” ;widely used out there. BUT, even the tallest, skinniest models are “plus size” compared to the way so many fashion illustrators and designers are drawing. BEAUTY, AESTHETICS, FUNCTION and PROPORTION in ACTION “Plus size”
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Fashion Figure Sketching FILES HELLO LOVES! How can you jump right into fashion sketching from a model when you don’t have anyone around to model for you? SKETCHING THE FIGURE FROM OBSERVATION As I watched the university cut fashion models out of the budget, my heart broke. They were replaced by digital software courses. BUT
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DRAWING FACES FOR FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS (VIDEOS ENCLOSED) https://youtu.be/1WaQIRMmLW8?si=YC142KNIXZY9Q-Ak I still remember learning to draw faces. It was a long struggle, and so uncomfortable because every time I drew a face that I didn’t like, it stared right back at me anyway, like it was mocking me! For this reason, to this very day, I LOVE
https://youtube.com/shorts/MRJQ-Pql69M?si=Q8zEjWCHR6aTA_wX Fashion Illustrators: Using Tinted Papers Today’s examples and videos show both analog and digital examples o fashion illustration wtih toned and textured papers.  It’s so exciting ot use a tinted paper, toned background, medium or dark ground for Fashion illustration. And I invite you to come and explore with me here on the blog
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Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! I often discourage my Parsons Fashion Design students from illustrating with ONLY colored pencil  because they simply never spring to vivid life on the page as easily as gouache. COLORED PENCIL with BLACK INK PEN Plus, it takes a LOT OF MUSCLE to make colored pencils
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