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Using Watercolor Wash with (Tombow) Marker for Fashion Drawing

Watercolor wash Technique with 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! *** PRO TIP: Even though I often start with pencil, that doesn’t mean I erase. I almost never erase!  It’s […]

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Instagram for fashion, design, and business- It’s a visual party! COME

INSTAGRAM for FASHION -LOVE! ( My instagram for fashion feed is embedded here  at the bottom of the page using an awesome “instagram feed” plugin!) Scroll down to see my recent posts right here! My video loaded with everything I learned while I tripled my instagram following in a month while euphorically harnessing the many tricks and tools that beginners

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Museum Visit: Seydou Keita, African Fashion and Photography

Remember the Claire McCardell Museum Visit post? Remember the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Museum Visit? Did you enjoy Tamara de Lempicka’s  luscious paintings and carefully sculpted forms? I love a day at the museum, and strive to remember that fashion is, or can be, art. I always feel reminded of that when my neighbors from Bangladesh

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Designing fashion with fashion flat sketches

Designing fashion with fashion flat sketches Hi!  first off I just released a Craftsy.com class all about designing fashion thru flat sketches–designing them, sketching them, from beginner to more advanced. techniques. I’m so proud of it and I adored this experience of working with their brilliant team and filming in their beautiful studios!!!  Really and

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Childrenswear Fashion Illustrations and Design- 2 fun templates for sketching now!

Childrenswear Fashion Illustrations and TEMPLATES for FASHION DESIGN (Yes, my last two year old was very chubby :0) and she’s the reason I’ve started my own business-and her brother and sister.) I hope using these templates will help YOU start YOUR own business too, so you can have more time with your family or doing

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kids, girls, and tween croquis template for fashion design sketching Laura Volpintestaq

Tween and Pre-teen Fashion Croquis Templates

TWEEN FASHION CROQUIS TEMPLATES- I have another resource page here including women’s and men’s templates that you can use to trace garments and illustrations onto, as well as flat sketches (technical drawings). What are “croquis templates” used for in fashion design?  I call them “paper dolls” sometimes, or “flats templates”, but whatever you call them, if

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