Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
Your Fashion Sketching art supplies TOOLKIT You know I’m passionate about every aspect of the fashion arts, from fashion sketching (observational and/ or creative ideation) and model drawing,ย to draping, patternmaking, construction and sewing.ย That’s why I teach ALL of it and have been very lucky to have taught all of these subjects over 3 […]
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Drawing Men in Fashion Illustration Drawing men for fashion illustration and menswear fashion design sketching is a pretty easy transition if you are comfortable drawing women already. ( I HOPE THE TIMELAPSE VIDEOS I’VE PROVIDED FOR YOU ON THIS PAGE HELP!) I host live practice sessions every week on zoom in Fashion Sketch Group! ย
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Gouache wash and Pencil Fashion sketch study on sketch paper Another Fashion Sketch Group ZOOM session wrapped up yesterday… I thought that today I share examples over this page to peer into the close up of the random studies that came out of this weekโs session and give you some ideas how you can experiment
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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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https://youtube.com/shorts/MZbFiNZHmZA?si=R66twBTtd-t-WKcqhttps://youtu.be/E5YO9A9MCCg?si=F2wuvRmFaRSVrPD8 Line quality in fashion drawing- FELT TIP WATERPROOF PENS, whether analog or DIGITAL, are a staple in my fashion illustration practice for their clear and varied line quality. You DEFINITELY want to add them to your toolkit! (watch the video above to learn why LINE QUALITY matters). Using a variety of pens can make
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Contour Drawing for fashion illustration Contour drawing is one of the most important drawing lessons for fashion illustration and beyond that you will ever learn. Whether you use a paintbrush, pencil, ink pen, or crayon, it really doesn’t matter– even digital drawing like at the top of this page, CONTOURS are a VERY POWERFUL part
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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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MOVEMENT THROUGH FIGURE DRAWING PRINCIPLES IN FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Fashion illustration, figure drawing, movement. What is it?ย What comes to mind to you when you think about the concept or FEELING of movement, motion,ย and emotion when thinking of figures and of clothing? Abdm what about when thinking of movement as a design principle? MOVEMENT is
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Watercolor wash Techniques using 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! ย This sketch above was a demonstration that happened in class session today- first. I sketched the modelโs figure lightly in
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Brown Paper Bag Fashion Sketching (VIDEOS BELOW) Brown Paper bags are toned paper- why not make use of them as such? In Fashion Sketch Group a few weeks ago I sliced up this paper bag into one long panoramic length of paper (with the handles on both ends) and sketched the model poses across it.
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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 itโs 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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YOUR INITIATION: Fashion Sketching TIPS for iPad Illustration! My iPad has become such a handy and essential, beloved and soulful tool for fashion illustration and design sketching for me, and today I want to share fashion sketching tips with you. The why and how…. I made it feel like HOME in SPITE OF MY RESISTANCE
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