Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Fashion Drawing with Fine Tip Markers Everyone asks me about markers, markers, markers for fashion illustration! And “marker” becomes a very loose term. Today you’ll see fine felt tip black markers used, as well as wet, chisel tip alcohol markers, so hopefully that addresses some of your curiosities about markers. I don’t usually teach […]
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https://youtu.be/L5EuvTUVrnI?si=udiYh85nIW-Bl9DC OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING: 12 ACTIONABLE TIPS to START GROWING AS A FASHION SKETCHER I don’t like to make any strict rules about things when I teach or learn or live. But I do know the best way to learn to draw fashion is by drawing what you see/ OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING. I’m an idealist Virgo who
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PENCILS FOR FASHION DRAWING- 7 TIPS Over decades teaching beginner and advanced fashion drawing at Parsons School of Design, I’ve learned SO MUCH that I am so eager to share with you. Let’s begin: WHAT KIND OF PENCILS? HAVE YOU TRIED: Charcoal pencils (white and brown, black) soft artist colored pencils such as Prismacolor Premiere
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Fashion Illustration: Presentation FORMATS WHAT’S IT ALL FOR?– That depends on the project. Hopefully, all of your fashion design drawing presentations are guided by love, inspired and infused with beauty and care. AND, every project you do has a particular and unique angle, need, purpose, or requirement, right? We always want to be clear what
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https://youtu.be/WmNB1BpH5G4 Not only in your fashion illustrations, but in life: (as a bonus, I’ve included the mindset/journalling for fashion students/designers/artists into this post. It’s powerful stuff!) When you finally allow the shadows to show themselves and speak up, your work and life become beautifully “round” , rich, dimensional and integrated! I LOVE TO TALK ABOUT
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SHADING FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Shading is what gives depth, dimension, and 3D form to your fashion illustraitons- it is easier on the eye, and by its very nature even adds texture, emphasizes details and layers. Also, shading won’t let you get away with drawing emaciated, super skinny distorted figures (skinny is fine if you want, but
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How to Draw a Fashion Figure: video lesson This is the foundation for so many things we can do! In today’s video, you can get a real feel for the motion and movement of sketching as I let you know step -by-step what i’m doing when I’m drawing the fashion figure. MY method is CUSTOMIZABLE
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HOW TO DRAW TEXTURES IN FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS LET’S TALK about capturing FABRIC TEXTURES in FASHION ILLUSTRATION. Fabric textures as expressed through… …..edges, shapes, shadows, curves, textures, and lines. HOW DO WE CAPTURE and COMMUNICATE the surface, drape and texture of our fashion fabric textures when we are sketching fashion designs??? How do we visually describe
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ADOBE FRESCO APP FASHION SKETCHING https://youtube.com/shorts/vCPIo2QnURc?si=cmt3akfuO0bcOrvG Every week on Zoom I host livestream fashion sketching sessions where members (and myself ) can bring whatever art tools and supplies we want. I curate music and figures, poses (1-20 mins) and fashion images of fantastic garments for us to study, practice, explore and sketch from. TIMELAPSE SHOWS THE
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Of course you want to be able to learn to draw… You want to learn to draw both realistically, and creatively, and freely. You want to use color, paint, create the same kind of beauty that you see and appreciate around you in nature, art, design around you in the world every day. It moves
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