Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
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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 Croquis templates for sketching Fashion Flats! (videos in this post) Maybe you aren’t familiar with using a croquis to create your fashion flats. (see some below) WHY ARE WE USING A TEMPLATE?  If you have a body or garment “template”, that simply means that you have a body or shape that you can use as
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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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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, to draping, patternmaking, construction and sewing. 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! Â
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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 weekâs 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 FOUR DELICIOUS instruction videos about fashion design sketching for beginners– — based on my 27 years of 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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