Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
HAVE YOU TRIED Markers for fashion illustration? Are you thinking about using Fashion Markers for illustration and design sketching? –For sure! Why not? They are the cornerstone of super quick and smooth work when that’s what you need. Traditionally recognized, portable, and excellent for live sketching events, markers dry fast (sometimes too fast), are rich […]
Learning the fundamentals of Patternmaking and Draping are essential to be learned together. STRONG FOUNDATIONS set you up for a lifetime of creative discovery combined with clear technical processes to roll with the pros. Videos on this page!
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Here are my top 9 recommended books for fashion design!(video) Hello Fashion Creatives!! I’m so happy you’re here. *** originally posted in 2015, these classics are STILL at the top of my list! As a 25-plus years fashion design professor and former student before that, I’m finally, answering “that” question. HERE THEY ARE: the 9
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Fashion Sketchbook (VIDEOS enclosed): Adding Color to the Croquis (originally posted October 2013) Back to the Fashion Croquis Book! Another day, another fresh start to try new things, creating in the dream of life…. –and celebration! I’ve been reviewing the final layout and text for my BOOK!!!! I have to say that when I opened
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FASHION DESIGN ONLINE COURSES Soulful, inspired fashion design and illustration education for creatives, students and professionals to bring out your individual voice through processes, projects and techniques-based learning. Based on my 27 years teaching at one of the world’s top fashion schools, I was inspired to create this much needed space for learning with
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Fashion Artist Laura Volpintesta Laura Volpintesta has been practicing for 30 years as a Fashion Design Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design in NYC and freelancing in the NYC Fashion Industry. A mom of three, she now works from her home studio teaching and creating online courses, doing live sketch retail events and
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An entirely iPad/ digital fashion drawing course! with Laura Volpintesta About Faces is my go-to digital course for learning faces, and at the same time using fashion illustration apps! DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS? about the fashion Illustration tools that live inside your iPad or digital device (on app store or Google play)? Read the list,
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PLUS SIZE Fashion Illustration Tutorial How do we define plus size fashion Illustration? …I’m using the term “PLUS SIZE FASHION” ;widely used out there. BUT, even the tallest, skinniest models are “plus size” compared to the way so many fashion illustrators and designers are drawing. BEAUTY, AESTHETICS, FUNCTION and PROPORTION in ACTION “Plus size”
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https://youtu.be/PpH4UDgQ0k0 China Marker for Fashion Batik Sketching (video on this page) There are many technical professional and creative ways that I use China Marker for fashion sketching. Usually I use it in fashion illustrations, but I also love how it works perfectly to create batik fabric effects by resisiting watercolor. CHINA MARKER as a sketching
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https://youtube.com/shorts/MRJQ-Pql69M?si=Q8zEjWCHR6aTA_wX Fashion Illustrators: Using Tinted Papers Today’s examples and videos show both analog and digital examples o fashion illustration wtih toned and textured papers. It’s so exciting ot use a tinted paper, toned background, medium or dark ground for Fashion illustration. And I invite you to come and explore with me here on the blog
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