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ABOUT FACES IPAD ILLUSTRATION COURSE DRAWING FACES: the Profile Face (VIDEO ENCLOSED) Drawing faces isn’t just “faces.” This is one of the reasons we have such a difficult time with it at first. … Because drawing a face is actually drawing a HEAD, including the features, the hair, and the spirit of the woman (or […]
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2018 iPhone app of the year: Procreate Pocket Fashion Illustration (video below) Today I’m going to take you into the 2018 iPhone app of the year: Procreate Pocket, and create a fashion illustration of an original design . Come along, IN TODAY’S VIDEO BELOW I’ll show you how to poke around the app, texplain what
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iPad Drawing Technique if you’ve studied with iPad drawing technique (or anything at all) with me before, you know that I don’t believe in one way of doing ANYTHING!!! So today I’m here to share something i’m passionate about: FREEHAND iPad Drawing technique. I’m going to use Adobe Draw app today to show you ONE WAY
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Biggest Mistakes in Drawing Fashion Faces! This post isn’t only about drawing fashion faces, but that’s what most of my students use it for, so let’s go! NO matter WHAT you are drawing faces for, IF and I mean IF (you don’t have to) REALISM is part of what you want to incorporate into your
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Welcome to Laura Volpintesta’s Soulful Fashion Foundation Immersion Certification 16 week SEMESTER course, or SFFI CORE STUDY SEMESTER Program, the unique offering where you can access every one of my entire suite of fashion design and illustration courses with lifetime access- to customize your own journey and complete your portfolio. This platform is where your work speaks for
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Gaouche and Sharpie fashion illustrratino, original design and illustration by Laura Volpintesta, 1995 Today, a fashion illustration tour. Especially in fashion, but in all model drawing, we focus on…. the model. Of course! But, lot of the time this can turn into a figure just “floating” in the center of a white page. Once in
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are you looking for a fashion illustration app? (6 minute video below of my current favorite fashion illustration app!!) Gouache and pencils make up my classic, favorite fashion illustration tools. Adobe Draw app for fashion illustration mimics these pretty beautifully, as you ‘ll see in today’s video. Get the full download of my ABOUT FACES
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https://youtube.com/shorts/VZjab_GI_kU?si=5wqTdG2_UknGldrB How to draw sequins in fashion illustration Clearly, it can be really daunting to think about how to draw sequins. All those tiny, shiny discs…. But what we THINK and NOW about sequins is way more complex than what it takes to draw them. SEQUINS is an EFFECT. IT’s a texture. And it’s totally
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PIGMENT MARKERS are one of my favorite discoveries of last year. When I was hired by Lord and Taylor to do live fashion illustrations in their stores, they sent me a sample of the branded paper they wanted me to use. (I love live fashion drawing and doing live, in-store evens, Especially because the models
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