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and don’t forget the link to my patternmaking online course:! https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/20644/about… this sales page includes TWO FREE PATTERNMAKING VIDEOS! PATTERNMAKING SUPPLIES Here’s a list of supplies that I recently shared with my Patternmaking class at Parsons in NYC. Don’t be shy to ask and I’m so excited to be on this Patternmaking discovery with you. […]
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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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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Laura Volpintesta (@lauravolpintesta) Fashion Sketching with Gouache masterclass I loved this masterclass. I love the conversations we had and the dress we created on the livestream. I loved your questions, your curiosities, and your spirits in the room! It is amazing what we do when we come together
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WELCOME TO THIS VIDEO RESOURCE PAGE! (Scroll down for videos) SCROLL DOWN FOR 7 FREE VIDEOS, and experience a taste of taking Fashion Design and Fashion Illustration courses online with me, benefit from my 27 years guiding, encouraging, and …. designing! I’m Laura Volpintesta. I’m a fashion designer, educator,author, illustrator, performing artist and mama who
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Are you ready for your fashion design infusion of foundation fashion studies? This summer during the Freedom Fashion launch, Fashion Design Infusion Course was born. How do you take design inspiration and translate it into fabrics? How do you take fabrics and translate them into gouache sketches ? How do you draw models and figures that
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Fahion Illustration on Ipad Fashion Illustration on the iPad- Stella Jean Ensemble Naturally, I adore Stella Jean, an Italian-AFrican fusion designer who uses the ankara/ pagne/ African Print and Dutch Wax Print fabrics that I have loved so much for so long since I landed in Paris in 1992 and fell in love with African
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Claire McCardell fashion sketches from the archive at Parsons School of Design in NYC where she graduated and later was a design critic up until her death while also owning her infamous design house Townley Frocks. What if you can’t draw and you want to design fashion ??? (Do you think that Claire McCardell, whose
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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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Hi, I’m Laura Volpintesta mentor, author, educator, designer. coach, and founder of Fashion Illustration Tribe. I’m a fashion illustrator, author, designer (and mom and musician with a passion for Brazilian music and culture)). I’ve been teaching fashion technical design and fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design for over 27 years!! I founded Fashion Illustration
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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 doable.
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