Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Fashion Sketch Group meets weekly on zoom BUT WAIT- for a comprehensive self study with rich content (demonstrations, exercises, and curated image resources for sketching) dripping out weekly over 16 weeks, MODEL DRAWING MAGIC digital course incrementally and intentionally changes how you move and see in relation to drawing and most especially MODEL DRAWING FOR […]
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Bangs in this fashion illustration, of course, are also a kind of fringe! What comes to mind when you think of fringe? the Fringes of Fashion Illustration Just two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about movement. When I was done, I couldn’t stop thinking about fringe!!! At the same time, I’m tickled to
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DRAWING WITH TWO HANDS Whether for fashion model drawing , which I teach on the regular for several decades now at Parsons School of Design, or for ANY model drawing or any DRAWING at ALL, drawing with two hands i s a powerful exercise that might seem silly “childish” to you at first. But like most
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Brown Paper Bag Fashion Sketching (VIDEOS BELOW) Brown Paper bags are toned paper- why not make use of them as such? In Fashion Sketch Group a few weeks ago I sliced up this paper bag into one long panoramic length of paper (with the handles on both ends) and sketched the model poses across it.
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YOUR INITIATION: Fashion Sketching TIPS for iPad Illustration! My iPad has become such a handy and essential, beloved and soulful tool for fashion illustration and design sketching for me, and today I want to share fashion sketching tips with you. The why and how…. I made it feel like HOME in SPITE OF MY RESISTANCE
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Discovering Adobe Fresco App CLICK TO VIEW TIMELAPSES all over this post– and discover Adobe Fresco app for fashion illustration on ipad- mimicking watercolor/ gouache and pencil sketching. When I opened Adobe Fresco for the first time, the new interface with so many little boxes and selections took me out of my artistic flow. It felt
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) I can’t emphasize enough the power of drawing fashion from Gesture to Line. Am I speaking another language ? I’ll explain. The most common approach- and most frustrating- to drawing fashion is flat, dark, clean, “perfect lines” that aren’t so dynamic or descriptive. THIS IS NOT A
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One FANTASTIC Fashion Drawing app can change EVERYTHING! (scroll to bottom for a video example) And for me, that’s Tayasui Sketches app. Oh, I could go on all day about it, and i WILL if you just give me a chance! I’ll try to give you just a few insights into WHY this app surpasses
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Fashion and Costume Sketching on iPad While today I’m here to talk about model drawing, figure drawing and my course enrollment opening today, I’m going to show you how Model Drawing is the foundation of Fashion and Costume sketching on the iPad or anywhere else. Tayasui Sketches app, as you all probably know by now,
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FASHION DESIGN ELEMENTS for your SKETCHBOOK My first book is “the Language of Fashion Design, 26 Principles every Fashion Designer should know”. Today’s post includes rich video lectures about fashion, and below each video has fashion design sketchbook and design journalling exercises for you to act on RIGHT NOW to build your fashion design portfolio! I gave
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