Learn the Soulful Arts of Fashion Design
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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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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FASHION DRAWING IN REAL TIME Since my first experience in a live fashion drawing model session with timed poses, I was HOOKED! Today, as in every week for over 20 years, (online only for 6) I hosted one of my beloved figure drawing sessions for fashion. EXPLORE YOUR ART SUPPLIES Fashion Drawing sessions are powerful
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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!
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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 week’s 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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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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MOVEMENT THROUGH FIGURE DRAWING PRINCIPLES IN FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Fashion illustration, figure drawing, movement. What is it? What comes to mind to you when you think about the concept or FEELING of movement, motion, 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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