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Watercolor wash Techniques using Tombow Brush Tip Marker Today’s post is going to look at some of the range and possibilities available to you when you explore watercolor wash with markers for your fashion drawing! This sketch above was a demonstration that happened in class session today- first. I sketched the model’s figure lightly in […]
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CREATIVE SELF-EXPRESSION: Drawing without Fear [VIDEO SERIES ON THIS PAGE] It’s as-yet unthinkable experience of creative self-expression for many …to draw without fear. BUT NOT FOR YOU! NOT ANY MORE. WELCOME TO DRAWING WITHOUT FEAR! I’m Laura Volpintesta. I’ve been successfully guiding creatives and aspiring designers to DRAW without FEAR for almost 3 decades
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One FANTASTIC Fashion Drawing app can change EVERYTHING! (scroll to bottom for a video example) And for me, that’s Tayasui Sketches app. Oh, I could go on all day about it, and i WILL if you just give me a chance! I’ll try to give you just a few insights into WHY this app surpasses
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Have you ever delved into the experience of a Figure Drawing Course? You’ll get so much more than you bargained for. Personal expression, preceision, process, freedom, vision….. https://youtu.be/TiEuMfzU-PM How could you expand and explore your approaches to drawing to feel more free, expressive, and satisfied with the experience? How can you turn it into an
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https://youtu.be/vlgHYF5Pq58https://youtu.be/Gk_a0GlZ4dI Drawing– particularly figure drawing and even worse, “fashion” model drawing, can bring out our worst critical and perfectionist tendencies!! Today’s short video is so close to my heart. How do we overcome perfectionism and break into a new freedom of expression that also is more accurate? Yes, it’s possible. the way you look at
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Have you always wanted to draw? I always did. I doodled shapes on all my schoolbooks, all day long, while anchored to a schooldesk, listening to boring lectures (…As if I didn’t know I had an innate, trustable voice that told me what I wanted to learn and to do and to be…) But I
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Depth and Space in Drawing and Composition…. view the Youtube timelapse VIDEO BELOW!!! I love sketching Brazilian Carnaval from the Northeast (Salvador, Bahia, and Recife, Pernambuco)….The “carnaval de rua”, street carnaval, is so colorful, with drumming and costumes, singing and dancing…Every January in NYC, it’s my big escape from winter to celebrate decoration and adornment
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https://youtu.be/rDWn43aLX6E Digital Drawing Faces: Repaper app examples (formerly Imagink) pssssst……Catch the super-quick timelapse video right here on my instagram page: or youtube tutorial at the top of this page!!~It shows the process of drawing a face using an app on the iPad, but applies to paper and pencil as well- i used Tayasui Sketches app for
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JUNE 20-21-22, 2017 Plus Size Fashion Drawing Workshop- online livestream and community private group with 4 week access to replays and feedback A PLUS SIZE FASHION DRAWING ONLINE WORKSHOP FINALLY! ONE OF THE reasons I founded Fashion Illustraton Tribe was because I couldn’t believe that the top schools were still teaching distorted body image to
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Have you tried Digital Fashion Drawing yet? I resisted for a loooooooong time, and seriously, I really had no desire to switch over. But now I”m loving it! I’d love to get you started too…. Whether for life drawing, doodling (below, using Adobe Photoshop Sketch app) or for fashion illustration, ( both digital fashion drawing
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