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WONDERFUL: Tayasui Sketches Number 1 desktop app for Fashion Illustration (video post)

After resisting digital art supplies for decades, since 2015 I’ve been shouting from the rooftops that Tayasui Sketches is my favorite app for fashion design illustration and sketching….. HANDS DOWN! And I usually use it on my ipad. But ometimes I have a student or client who doesn’t have an iPad. (I first used Tayasui […]

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Drawing Fashion from gesture to line (VIDEO)

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Drawing Fashion from Gesture to Line (VIDEO BELOW) 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 frustrating- to drawing fashion is flat, dark, clean, “perfect lines” that aren’t so dynamic or descriptive. THIS IS NOT A

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Colored Pencil fashion illustration

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Colored pencil fashion illustration isn’t something I always recommend! >>>>>>>>>>WATCH TODAY’S TUTORIAL VIDEO by clicking the images in the post. Actually, I discourage using just colored pencils to create fashion sketches because they can be so thin and dry looking. Everyone knows, I love vibrant, vital, fluid, dynamic effects in fashion illustration! Today, i was

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iPad Drawing technique

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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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My favorite digital watercolor app for fashion art

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My favorite digital watercolor app for fashion art Digital watercolor? EEEEEEEW!! How can you get textural, delicious paint effects on a piece of smooth, cold hard glass?? I love working with my gouache . Puddles of water, the smell of paint, brushes and palettes, paper towels and watercups, various textures of paper…. BUT WHO HAS

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Digital Fashion Design Sketching on the Dress Form

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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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10 Actionable Fashion Illustration Layout inspirations

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Gaouche and Sharpie fashion illustrratino, original design and illustration by Laura Volpintesta, 1995 Today, a fashion illustration tour. Especially in fashion, but in all model drawing, we focus on…. the model. Of course! But, lot of the time this can turn into a figure just “floating” in the center of a white page. Once in

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How to draw Sequins

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https://youtube.com/shorts/VZjab_GI_kU?si=5wqTdG2_UknGldrB How to draw sequins in fashion illustration Clearly, it can be really daunting to think about how to draw sequins. All those tiny, shiny discs…. But what we THINK and NOW about sequins is way more complex than what it takes to draw them. SEQUINS is an EFFECT. IT’s a texture. And it’s totally

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Digital Watercolor Technique on iPad Pro

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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

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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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Learning Fashion Illustration

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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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Carnaval headdress by carnavalesco Pat Caetano, illustrated by Laura Volpintesta with digital watercolors

Digital Goddess Art on Tayasui Sketches

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Digital Goddess Art using Tayasui Sketches Pro app: Let’s explore two of my favorite things in one post: (Digital) Goddess Art, and Tayasui Sketches Pro app on my iPad! I’ll take you through a step by step further down the page. It looks like watercolors, doesn’t it? …with black waterproof ink pen? On colored, textured watercolor

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