TEXTURE, SURFACE, SHINE, and DESIGN
Rendering Special Fabrics: Surface, Weight, and Texture In celebration of the summer session of FABRIC FORM AND FLOW 8 week journey into textured and reflective fabric rendering enrollment for July 1 start date (closing enrollment doors until next year), I’d like to share some insights into capturing special fabric textures with various media. These sketches […]
Using Watercolor Wash with (Tombow) Marker for Fashion Drawing
Watercolor wash Technique with 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! *** PRO TIP: Even though I often start with pencil, that doesn’t mean I erase. I almost never erase! It’s […]
Drawing Fashion Design with Tombow Brush Tip Marker
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, […]
Fashion Illustration Tools
Fashion Illustration Tools for quick fashion illustration and sketching? In my weekly Fashion Sketch Groups, we draw for 2 hours straight (does that sound long? ItGOES BY WAY TOO FAST!!!) and usually it’s a mix of poses from 30 sec to 1 minute to 3, 10, 15 minutes. Fashion Illustration Tools: Graphite So what kinds […]
Color in Fashion Design
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 […]
Digital Fashion Design Sketching on the Dress Form
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 […]
Learning Fashion Illustration
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 […]
Azzedine Alaia Fashion Illustration
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 […]
Fashion Eveningwear Illustration Online Course
Eveningwear Illustration: Form and Flow Fashion Design Illustration Online course is here! In my 25 years teaching fashion design and fashion illustration, I always found two major kinds of fashion students. Some of you like to design ready-to-wear, or street clothes, athletic, outerwear, weekend wear, casual, “ladies-who-lunch”, whatever…. AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE DESIGNING and […]
Fashion Figure Drawing
Fashion Figure Drawing – LIVE! So, here’s what happened on Periscope.tv/Lvolpintesta today. I created a fashion figure drawing from scratch, working from an image that I liked, then added in the fashion details so that it looked real and gave clear construction and design information, because I love to do that :0). I took an […]
Fashion Designer Zandra Rhodes
https://youtu.be/F-E4ltDO1Xw Fashion Designer Zandra Rhodes Fashion Designer, Textile designer, Icon: is one of the fashion designers I included in my book “the Language of Fashion Design” that was published last year in February. I couldn’t not share something of hers! Yesterday was my birthday and hers too (September 19) , so I couldn’t help but […]
Fashion Print Design Basics, LIVE!!
Fashion Print Design How can you create original art for fashion, in simple repeat… create a tile of pattern that can be multiplied infinitely in every direction? Scroll down to watch a full instructional video. It was originally a Periscope stream. My handle on Twitter and Periscope is @lvolpintesta How can you create mood and […]
