Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion 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 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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MUSIC AND FASHION STUDY from my student croquis book, Parsons, NYC, 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!
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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) Toned paper, oil pastel gesture, and graphite lines. Study from live fashion drawing session FASHION drawing from gesture to line I can’t emphasize enough the power of drawing fashion from Gesture to Line. Am I speaking another language ? I’ll explain. The most common approach- and most
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TOMBOW BRUSH TIP MARKER IS A CLASSIC When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Tombow brush tip markers bring a rich, organic constrasts and drama to the fashion sketch. When we are aiming for mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition, we can use a bold, dark color: Holding our pen more vertically with a
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Fashion Sketchbook (VIDEOS enclosed): Adding Color to the Croquis (originally posted October 2013) Back to the Fashion Croquis Book! Another day, another fresh start to try new things, creating in the dream of life…. –and celebration! I’ve been reviewing the final layout and text for my BOOK!!!! I have to say that when I opened
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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 illustrations, which means to also introduce your to your 4 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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How do we even define “plus size” fashion model vs another? If, in the fashion design industry, sizing is unregulated and inconsistent across the board, and most sketches we see have distored body proportions…. In fact; in fashion schools, students are still learning —and teachers are teaching and illustrators often perpetuating the use of— proportions
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Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! I often discourage my Parsons Fashion Design students from illustrating with ONLY colored pencil because they simply never spring to vivid life on the page as easily as gouache. COLORED PENCIL with BLACK INK PEN Plus, it takes a LOT OF MUSCLE to make colored pencils
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I love the organic, textural, high quality look of real watercolors in my fashion illustrations. Here’s what I do when I’m working digitally.
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Fashion Sketch Apps I love and recommend: Fashion illustration apps can be WONDERFUL. I wouldn’t recommend diving into them without ever exploring paper and analog sketching tools as a foundation, but after that I think that everyone could enjoy having a fashion illustration app in their life to create and illustrate. Don’t forget that I’ve
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