Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
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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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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Fashion Illustration Art Supplies!!! Grab your fashion illustration art supplies! Time to illustrate! It’s a new day…. one more opportunity to share your wonderfulness with everyone you come in contact with. Share your sunshine…giving is receiving. Let’s go get sketching. Today’s reminder is: TURN UP SOME GOOD TUNES WHEN YOU DRAW!!!! What I wanted to
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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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