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The Balance Line/ Plumbline in Fashion and Figure Sketching I love jazz music and bought a copy of Matisse’s book Jazz many years ago at the Strand bookstore on 12 street in the Village in NYC….. When I found the above quotes in the book, my heart jumped because I felt he said something that I always […]
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For those of you who read last week’s post about gouache fashion illustration, (“FOUR GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN”T LIVE WITHOUT…..”) here is more on the subject. But in today’s sketch, the ensemble is ANYTHING BUT white!! Full of vibrant color, this piece was inspired by the Ndebele culture of South Africa. Here is another piece
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Written at a textbook level, this work’s utility lies not in critical or historical perspective, but in its omnivorous, enthusiastic gathering and mapping out of global ideas to serve as inspiration for students beginning to learn the language of fashion. -Lindsey King, Yale University, for the Library Journal I’ve always loved writing, fashion and
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What are “fashion drawing proportions” all about? Proportions in fashion drawing What does it mean to master proportions for fashion drawing? A lot of people, especially in the old days when i was a student, believed there were rules about how much you had to lie about what a woman’s body can look to be
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What is Fashion Illustration Tribe? This tribe I envisioned 10 (now 13 years ago) in 2013 is inclusive, open, be yourself and come-as-you-are, where -you -are, creative, passionate, daring home for fashion studies. Where we embrace fashion, art, our feminine nature, wisdom, imagination, freedom, creativity, community, and life. We love music, we love humanity and humanness,
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MUSIC AND FASHION STUDY from my student croquis book, Parsons, NYC, 1995, Laura Volpintesta “Don’t go changing, to try to please me…. you never let me down before….”-Billy Joel My kids are 4, 12, and 13 right now. The older ones, they tell me I have a song for everything, and every situation. They’re right!
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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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I love the organic, textural, high quality look of real watercolors in my fashion illustrations. Here’s what I do when I’m working digitally.
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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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Croquis books using Toned Paper make fashion illustrations “POP!” Whether DIGITAL OR ANALOG, toned paper makes a big difference in fashion illustrations. For a men’s fashion design sketchbook (video enclosed below), womens, costume/ eveningwear fashion illustrations (video enclosed below), sketching on brown paper bags (examples below) or children’s fashion illustration croquis, …if you love fashion
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