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beginner fashion design croquis sketching tutorials in gouache and pencil by Laura Volpintesta

Beginner Fashion Sketching Tutorials

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 FOURย DELICIOUSย  instruction videos about fashion design sketching for beginners– — based on my 27 years ofย  experience teaching model

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BODY LANGUAGE figure drawing sparkle, shine, surface, and design: silk satin quilted jacket fashion illustration by Laura Volpintesta

SKETCHING TEXTURE, SURFACE, SHINE, and DESIGN

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 reflectiveย 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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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 itโ€™s a mix of poses from 30 sec to 1 minute to 3, 10, 15 minutes. Fashion Illustration Tools: Graphite So what kinds

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COLOR!! African print fashion illustration about Laura Volpintesta

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

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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

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fabric form and flow eveningwear design course laura volpintesta

Fashion Eveningwear Illustration Online Course

Eveningwear Illustration: Form and Flow Fashion Design Illustration Online course is here! ย  In my 25 years teaching fashion design and illustration portfolio on the college level,ย  I’ve found there are generally two categories of students: Some of youย ย like to design ready-to-wear, or street clothes, athletic, outerwear, weekend wear, casual, “ladies-who-lunch”, whatever…. AND THERE ARE

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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

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