Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
THE WEBINAR HAS EXPIRED so I’m inviting you into the fashion creative learning experience. I hope you enjoy this video all about fashion design education with me, and ge tto know me a bit. Also, there are tutorials and resources all over this blog! Use the search bar on my home page, browse my recent […]
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Fashion Model Drawing Class! (check out the whole intensive program here!) Subscribe to website for free learning materials to get started fashion model drawing class: sketching AND designing. THIS FASHION MODEL DRAWING CLASS Webinar HAS EXPIRED BUT CHECK OUT THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS BELOW! SUBSCRIBE to my youtube channel to keep in the loop! Several video
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Fashion Design Course Online!!! Find Your Voice IN YOUR SPACE and AT YOUR PACE Dive into a intensive fashion design course online in 12 weeks. With an upbeat, veteran fashion illustration and design instructor with 25 years experience teaching fashion design at Parsons in NYC. YOU CAN DO THIS! WHAT IF you could sketch bodies
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the Fringes of Fashion Illustration Just two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about movement, and when I was done, I couldn’t stop thinking about drawing fringe!!! NOTHING MOVES LIKE FRINGE!!! My first prom dress had a beaded fringe at the hem… Like on the tiara below… And when I think of carnaval
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) Toned paper, oil pastel gesture, and graphite lines. Study from live fashion drawing session FASHION drawing from gesture to line I can’t emphasize enough the power of drawing fashion from Gesture to Line. Am I speaking another language ? I’ll explain. The most common approach- and most
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TOMBOW BRUSH TIP MARKER IS A CLASSIC When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Tombow brush tip markers bring a rich, organic constrasts and drama to the fashion sketch. When we are aiming for mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition, we can use a bold, dark color: Holding our pen more vertically with a
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FRESH PERSPECTIVES FOR FASHION DRAWING THROUGH LIVE SESSIONS (VIDEO ENCLOSED) For now, I’m not using LIVE MODELS for my fashion drawing sessions on zoom, because I am obsessed with curating posed leotard figures for the warmup period at the beginning, and BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES and poses for the longer drawings. WHAT MAKES A DRAWING SESSION “LIVE”?
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How do we even define “plus size” fashion model vs another? If, in the fashion design industry, sizing is unregulated and inconsistent across the board, and most sketches we see have distored body proportions…. In fact; in fashion schools, students are still learning —and teachers are teaching and illustrators often perpetuating the use of— proportions
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Fashion Figure Sketching FILES HELLO LOVES! How can you jump right into fashion sketching from a model when you don’t have anyone around to model for you? SKETCHING THE FIGURE FROM OBSERVATION As I watched the university cut fashion models out of the budget, my heart broke. They were replaced by digital software courses. BUT
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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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