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Tayasui Sketches app has truly beautiful textural watercolor effects for figure drawing, fashion illustration and all kinds of watercolor art. I’ll show you how I created this illustration
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I can’t get over the range of flavors digital apps have to offer, from one to the next-today let’s discuss digital collage art. I’ll also embed a short video tutorial at the bottom of this post to show you the basic technique. EVERYONE knows how much I love Tayasui Sketches app…. for it’s beautiful user
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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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Learn to Draw Well, isn’t THIS one of the most direct titles I’ve ever come up with: “LEARN TO DRAW”!? This video, this lesson today means so much to me. Why? For me, This is gold. This is the stuff it’s all made of. See, BEFORE you “LEARN TO DRAW” something you are looking at…
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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body positivity is the celebration of beauty. POSITIVITY is a key word to bring to all that you do as a creative in fashion design, fashion illustration, and life itself
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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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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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Learning Fashion Illustration– you’re in the right place for learning fashion illustration! I have courses and a full program even for fashion design and fashion illustration with different focuses for each. And TONS of articles on this site! So stick around, and subscribe! First I’d like to break down the categories and uses for fashion
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