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Caftan one piece pant-suit with decorative yoke, boots and bracelets. Gouache and pencil illustration by Laura Volpintesta

Kaftans, Kimonos, “Roots of Fashion Design” sketching and construction class

Caftans, Kimonos, Circle Skirts, and Dirndls Kaftans Kimonos Roots of Fashion Laura Volpintesta FashionIllustrationtribe FUNDAMENTAL sustainable CLOTHING PRINCIPLES Since (even before) the very beginning of my career, I’ve been fascinated by kimonos, caftans, saris, togas ponchos, and all sorts of “original” clothing created with minimal cutting of the cloth. THE ORIGINAL SUSTAINABLE FASHION. It’s zero […]

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colored pencils, african print, toned paper, fashion pad

Colored Pencil fashion illustration

Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! I often discourage my Parsons Fashion Design students from illustrating with ONLY colored pencil because they simply never spring to vivid life on the page as easily as gouache. COLORED PENCIL with BLACK INK PEN Plus, it takes a LOT OF MUSCLE to make colored pencils

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Rendering African Wax fabric in fashion illustration on ipad using Tayasui Sketches pro digital app

Digital Fashion Illustration: African Print

Freehand, DIGITAL african wax print fashion illustration I’m a die hard print lover and African Wax Print Fashion features are some of my favorite styles Large, graphic motifs that cut across the figure, barely fit into garment panels of fabric. The result: dynamic, eye-popping and figure-flattering designs for every size and proportion. The colors in

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Watercolor Fashion Portrait

Watercolor Fashion Portrait Process The purpose of this watercolor fashion portrait is to get you excited to create. I hope it makes your fingers tingle, your heart beat, and your eyes remember that you have visions- and grab some paper or your iPad or anything, even a napkin and a ballpoint pen, and bring something

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solid, brushstroke, chisel tip, space, depth, layers, composition, pleats, sleevesfloral. eveningwear, back view, marker sketch fashion illustration by laura volpintesta

Copic Markers for Fashion

COPIC MARKERS for Fashion sketching: MARKER PAPER Before we can talk about your Copic markers for fashion illustration, we have got to set you up with the right paper. AVOIDING BLEED-THROUGH Marker paper is notoriously sheer, thin, and often bright-white and smooth. That’s why I stayed away from Copic markers and other markers for decades. I

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Fashion Design Sketching on iPad with Procreate app by Laura Volpintesta

iPad Techniques for Fashion Sketching

Fashion Sketching with iPad apps (videos) Last night I shared fashion sketching examples from my ipad created with Procreate app during my weekly live zoom group. Fashion Sketch Group is about drawing from OBSERVATION: drawing from something we are looking at. TODAY’S EXAMPLES ARE SOMETHING DIFFERENT– FASHION SKETCHING FROM OUR IMAGINATION Today’s fashion illustrations don’t come

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marker, pencil, contour lines and composition. line quality and shadow, hemsline, pleats, gathers, curls, wrinkles, fashion sketch by Laura Volpintesta from live zoom session

Art Supplies for Fashion Sketching

Your Fashion Sketching art supplies TOOLKIT You know I’m passionate about every aspect of the fashion arts, from fashion sketching (observational and/ or creative ideation) and model drawing, to draping, patternmaking, construction and sewing. That’s why I teach ALL of it and have been very lucky to have taught all of these subjects over 3

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Patternmaking tutorials Laura Volpintesta, founder , Fashioni Illustration Triibe

10 Reasons to Learn Fashion Design Terms

https://youtu.be/DuEao5sk0HE?si=juDVP5r06vmnyTH0 Here are 10 reasons to learn Fashion Design Terms: How can we talk about fashion without fashion design terminology? ( i hope you enjoy the videos inside this post! one abvoe and one below, they will build your technical fashion design vocabuary). Whether we are fashion writers (like me), museum tour givers, running an

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drawing asymmetry in fashion design detail with Tombow How to draw cascades, flares for fashion design (circular fflare and circle skirts) by Laura Volpintesta

ASYMMETRY in Fashion Design: Masterclass

ASYMMETRY in FASHION DESIGN MASTERCLASS Here’s the replay video of my workshop about Asymmetry in Fashion Design (and in design in general). It’s a specific masterclass lesson based on a chapter from my book. Asymmetry in action: fashion design sketches Asymmetrical dress design using ciruclar flare to create cascades on one side of a shift

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ONLINE Fashion Design and Illustration Courses

Fashion Illustration, Fashion Art, Fashion Design and Drawing Coaching and Courses! MY SIGNATURE SUITE OF FASHION EDUCATION COURSES: Learn Classic and creative fashion illustration and design techniques with me, Laura Volpintesta: fashion author, illustrator, designer, and creative catalyst with 27 years teaching fashion design at Parsons School of Design in NYC and globally. I also

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