Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
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 […]
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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
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Sketching African Print Fashion by Stella Jean…. Hello! Here I use the Adobe Photoshop Sketch App on my iPad Mini using the 53Pencil stylus, to illustrate this beautiful ensemble by Stella Jean (LOVE)– of course– my love affair with African Prints is now going on 23 years…. Digital Fashion Sketching made it a lot of
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DIGITAL FASHION SKETCHING on iPad…. how did I get from here….. (design on instagram by @by_natacha_baco) Natacha Baco website/ e-shop to here…. on the iPad? Find out, in the video, above or below! The actual slideshow with commentary begins at 4minutes, after my introduction. I use pencil, marker, and brush tools to
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Designing fashion with fashion flat sketches Hi! first off I just released a Craftsy.com class all about designing fashion thru flat sketches–designing them, sketching them, from beginner to more advanced. techniques. I’m so proud of it and I adored this experience of working with their brilliant team and filming in their beautiful studios!!! Really and
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from my stufdent croquis book, 1995, Laura Volpintesta “Don’t go changing, to try to please me…. you never let me down before….”-Billy Joel My kids are 4, 12, and 13 right now. The older ones, they tell me I have a song for everything, and every situation. They’re right! How could I not? I’m a
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STOP!!!! What’s UP with Fashion Proportions? “8 heads”, “9 heads?” “10 heads, 12 heads? “( Length of the body in relation to the length of the head use traditionally to guage fashion bodies). But length of a head also has a relationship to width of the body. So an 8-9 “head” figure can be realistic
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Fashion Designing:Creative Process Hey TRIBE, How are you doing? Here’s some more vlog material from the series where I’m developing a capsule collection of dresses from this group of swatches: I gave myself the challenge of Fashion Designing with COLOR BLOCKING this collection: meaning, I decided to use a number of fabrics in different
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MARKERS or GOUACHE for Fashion Sketching? MARKERS: Markers for fashion drawing and illustration can be fun, novel, quick, handy. I was very excited the first time I used art markers and I even have a favorite brand. Chartpack markers (below left) are really wet with a softish chisel tip. ( DO YOUR RESEARCH- on chemical
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Easy to find Art Supplies for Fashion Illustration I think it’s really great to know what you are looking for and talking about when looking easy-to-find- art supplies for fashion illustration and design sketching. Quality ones. I’m going to show you what you will find if you go to a local art store (if you’re in the
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Gouache Technique for illustrating fashion- my process 4 GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT!! I’m here to introduce you to my gouache technique for fashion sketches, which means to also introduce your to your four new best friends (besides ME) in fashion illustration!!! While quiet in appearance, these four simple tubes or colors of “goo-AH-sh”
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What are “fashion drawing proportions” all about? What does it mean to master proporstions for fashion drawing? A lot of people, especially in the old days when i was a student, believed there were rules about how much you had to lie about what a woman’s body can look to be learning “fashion sketch proportions”. This
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