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Online Fashion Design courses and coaching

Instagram Youtube Pinterest Facebook Linkedin FASHION DESIGN COURSES: Soulful, inspired fashion design and illustration education for creatives and professionals. Fashion Illustration Tribe is Laura Volpintesta’s school and community- (27 years Parsons fashion faculty and author of THE LANGUAGE OF FASHION DESIGN: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know). Learn on YOUR terms- on YOUR schedule, […]

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Fashion Printed Pattern Design Technique

DESIGNING Fashion PrintED PATTERNS How can you create original art for fashion fabrics, exploring printed patterns for fabric in simple repeat? What is the theory involved in designing a tile that can be multiplied infinitely in every direction, creating a printed fashion fabric to wear? Scroll down to watch a full instructional video. MATERIALS FOR the PRINTED

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Templates for Fashion Flats

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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FASHION DRAWING SESSIONS

FASHION DRAWING IN REAL TIME Since my first experience in a live fashion drawing model session with timed poses, I was HOOKED! Today, as in every week for over 20 years, (online only for 6) I hosted one of my beloved figure drawing sessions for fashion. EXPLORE YOUR ART SUPPLIES Fashion Drawing sessions are powerful

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Watercolor Fashion Portrait

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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Fashion Sketchbooks are EVERYTHING

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

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. AVOIDING BLEED-THROUGH 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

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Ankara Fashion Illustration

https://youtu.be/DwHEO1XOnYI?si=fHdIbwNPZeelKIJ2 Ankara Fashion Illustration…. If you’re passionate about African fashion and Wax Prints, like me, you’ll enjoy this. Remember that If you want a better look, zoom in close to see finer details. Digital fashion sketch, above. Marker fashion sketch, below Ankara Fashion illustration on iPad or Gouache The approach is the same whether

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Fashion and Color: A Love Story

Color theory for Fashion. I‘m obsessed. Right now I’m loving pale pale pale tint of pink (which I never would have worn years ago), alongside royal blue, and mint green. Lemon yellow. I love pastels and pure primary hues when paired with each other or mixed with white. These colors and combinations give me a feeling

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