Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
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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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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Rendering Special Fabrics: Surface, Weight, and Texture In celebration of the latest session release of FABRIC FORM AND FLOW fashion design and illustration online course,… Here is some pre-work. Let’s journey into textured and reflective fashion fabric rendering for eveningwear, special occasions and beyond. Today I’d like to share some insights into capturing special fabric textures
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Variety and possibility The purpose of today’s post is to expose the amount of variety of expression that can come out of just two hours of drawing, set aside each week. I do this every single week at a dedicated time in my Fashion Sketch Group for pure pleasure, over the past few years, and
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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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When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Brush tip markers bring a rich drama to the page when we are aiming for drama, mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition. The wide range of expressions that com out of a single brush pen can be just what you needed to emphasize layers and folds,
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Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! >>>>>>>>>>WATCH TODAY’S TUTORIAL VIDEO by clicking the images in the post. Actually, I discourage using just colored pencils to create fashion sketches because they can be so thin and dry looking. Everyone knows, I love vibrant, vital, fluid, dynamic effects in fashion illustration! Today, i was
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iPad Drawing Technique if you’ve studied with iPad drawing technique (or anything at all) with me before, you know that I don’t believe in one way of doing ANYTHING!!! So today I’m here to share something i’m passionate about: FREEHAND iPad Drawing technique. I’m going to use Adobe Draw app today to show you ONE WAY
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How to Draw Glitter in Fashion Illustration Everyone needs a time to draw glitter in Fashion Illustration. Because even if it’s not in your clothes, it should be in the twinkle of your model’s eyes! This particular model’s eyes are closed, but she still sparkles ! In her mood, her smile and her eye makeup.
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Learning Fashion Illustration– you’re in the right place for learning fashion illustration! I have courses and a full program even for fashion design and fashion illustration with different focuses for each. And TONS of articles on this site! So stick around, and subscribe! First I’d like to break down the categories and uses for fashion
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Digital Goddess Art using Tayasui Sketches Pro app: Let’s explore two of my favorite things in one post: (Digital) Goddess Art, and Tayasui Sketches Pro app on my iPad! I’ll take you through a step by step further down the page. It looks like watercolors, doesn’t it? …with black waterproof ink pen? On colored, textured watercolor
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Adobe Sketch App (now ADOBE FRESCO app) Fashion Sketching: Step by Step Adobe sketch app for digital fashion fashion sketching is, hands-down, a top pick. I’ve spent a lot of time inside all of the popular freehand digital painting and drawing apps for iphone, Especially for beginners, AND BEGINNING IS THE HARDEST PLACE TO BE
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