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Tayasui Sketches app illustration by Laura Volpintesta, Printed tiered dress and ruffled sleeves combo by Dress Designer and Model, Layana Aguilar 3 BEST FASHION ILLUSTRATION APPS I’ve hand- picked and meticulously tested a pile of digital fashion illustration apps for us. PRIORITIES: capacity for detail, mood, rich texture, reliability, flexibility and USERINTERFACE/ EXPERIENCE! I […]
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Fashion Proportions: Are we finally going to talk about “fashion proportions?” That’s kind of funny. Me blogging in a few hundred words about a topic that could easily be a BOOK. (ORIGINALLY POSED JANUARY 2014, updated 2026) People’s eyes get “used” to anything, if they see it enough. Yet we still haven’t gotten to
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I warmly welcome you into this space — a place to learn Fashion Design online, gain experience technique and understanding as you unfurl your creative wings This is the place to Immerse yourself in the processes and take ownership of your understanding of fashion design — what it means to you, and how you want to
Gouache wash and Pencil Fashion sketch study on sketch paper Another Fashion Sketch Group ZOOM session wrapped up yesterday… I thought that today I share examples over this page to peer into the close up of the random studies that came out of this week’s session and give you some ideas how you can experiment
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc1QJqa-S54 Claire McCardell Fashion Designs: Let’s look closely at the art! Today we’ll look closely at the constructions of Claire Mccardell fashion designs to deepen our understanding of garment construction and bias cuts made visible through stripes and plaids. (for more understanding of these principles, I invite you to Patternmaking Demystified (plus draping) online intensive.)
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Fashion Design Sketching for Beginners! ***Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is one of the very first blog posts that every appeared on this website, in 2013!*** You lucked out landing on this blog post, because it includes FOUR DELICIOUS instruction videos about fashion design sketching for beginners– — based on my 27 years of experience teaching model
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DRAMA AND MOOD in Fashion Illustration If you LOVE capturing the drama in fashion illustration, the more yout understand the fine details in the clothing, and the more we understand how to render prints and surface textures, and the more we understand HOW CLOTHING IS MADE and put together, and the more comfortable we are
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HOLIDAY FASHION DESIGN SKETCHING COURSE EXERCISE: When you think of fashion design sketching for holiday parties, festivities and events, what do you think of wearing? Or, what do you think your muse wants to wear? What does she need, what does she dream of? How does she want to feel in your fashion designs? NOW:
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Model Drawing forms the foundation for fashion illustration skilss. This costume for carnaval by AVOA illustrated by Laura Volpintesta on Adobe Fresco app EXPLORE: Versatile, vibrant apps for fashion sketching and illustration! Fashion Illustration: Striped pantsuit illustration by Laura Volpintesta using Adobe Fresco app I studied fashion design and fashion illustration back in the early
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Using Procreate app for Fashion Illustrations Using Procreate app for Fashion Illustration on iPad I had resisted using Procreate app for Fashion Illustration on iPad for a long time. Why? I felt like it was too smooth and slick looking. While I first tried it a long time ago and definitely got it to the
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