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YOUR INITIATION: Fashion Sketching TIPS for iPad Illustration! My iPad has become such a handy and essential, beloved and soulful tool for fashion illustration and design sketching for me, and today I want to share fashion sketching tips with you. The why and how…. I made it feel like HOME in SPITE OF MY RESISTANCE […]
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Discovering Adobe Fresco App CLICK TO VIEW TIMELAPSES all over this post– and discover Adobe Fresco app for fashion illustration on ipad- mimicking watercolor/ gouache and pencil sketching. When I opened Adobe Fresco for the first time, the new interface with so many little boxes and selections took me out of my artistic flow. It felt
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Here’s the replay of my talk from my book the Language of Fashion Design!!! Get inspired, Comment with any questions… grab your fashion design notebook/ sketchbook , and grab the assignment prompt too! Here’s the video replay: I’m also excited to share the link to Soulful Fashion Foundation Immersion Sketching and illustration program PLUS 4
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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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digital fashion design sketching Digital Fashion Design Sketching on the Dress Form It all started one day when I was visiting the web pages of PGM Dress Form company. I recommend them to all my students at Parsons and in my signature program whenever students who want to work in 3D. They’re beautiful, the company is
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Digital Watercolor Technique? Digital watercolor technique??? Watercolors aren’t digital!!!!!!! Digital devices can’t even get wet!!!!! I worked with gouache for decades before I tried digital apps for fashion illustration on my iPad. To start, I downloaded a few recommended apps on my iPad mini and played with them. My favorite approach to digital painting, digital
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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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https://youtu.be/rDWn43aLX6E Digital Drawing Faces: Repaper app examples (formerly Imagink) pssssst……Catch the super-quick timelapse video right here on my instagram page: or youtube tutorial at the top of this page!!~It shows the process of drawing a face using an app on the iPad, but applies to paper and pencil as well- i used Tayasui Sketches app for
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Azzedine Alaia Fashion Illustration (Scroll to the bottom of the page for 35 second time-lapse Azzedine Alaia fashion illustration process video!) Wow, it hit me hard to hear of Azzedine Alaia’s passing. Azzedine Alaïa is set so far apart from so many designers. Just thinking about him reminded me of the sheer power and
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Ready for a Sketchbook Fashion Art Challenge? Ready for a sketchbook fashion art challenge on instagram and social media? #bulletjournalselfiechallenge (Yeah, I know it’s a long hashtag, but with a name like VOLPINTESTA, long is kinda my thing…..lol!) HERE”S THE LINK TO MY VIDEO/ ARTICLE ON HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR ART TO SHARE ON SOCIAL
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