The Balance Line/ Plumbline in Fashion and Figure Sketching I love jazz music and bought a copy of Matisse’s book Jazz many years ago at the Strand bookstore on 12 street in the Village in NYC….. When I found the above quotes in the book, my heart jumped because I felt he said something that I always …
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For those of you who read last week’s post about gouache fashion illustration, (“FOUR GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN”T LIVE WITHOUT…..”) here is more on the subject. But in today’s sketch, the ensemble is ANYTHING BUT white!! Full of vibrant color, this piece was inspired by the Ndebele culture of South Africa. Here is another piece …
Gouache Fashion Illustration Technique 4 GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT!! I’m here to 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” will add dimension, life, and beauty to your fashion illustration technique and can’t be substituted! Today …
“Finding your style”….. (I’ve included 2 videos at the bottom: one about WHY we do what we do, and another aimed at those who want to design fashion but “can’t draw”. WHY you do it has a lot to do with how your style unfolds!) What does it mean to you? Please chime into the conversation below …
Fashion Croquis: Design Development Sketching Where to begin? How do you get started??? What do designers do and what are the fundamentals of fashion drawing? What are Fashion Croquis? What do you need to know, and how can it enhance your life and your capabilities as a designer? HELLO MY LOVES!!! There are four FREE …
ROCKPAPERINK………. This year I will be blogging for fashion monthly for my publisher, Rockport, on their website RockPaperInk The column is called Fashion: Global Voices and my first two posts so far discuss AFWNY (Africa Fashion Week New York) and BIFW (Bangkok International Fashion Week), discussing designers and sharing work that I really hope you …
How to Draw a Fashion Figure: video lesson This is the foundation for so many things we can do! In this video, you can get a real feel for the motion and movement of sketching as I let you know step -by-step what i’m doing when I’m drawing the fashion figure. This method is CUSTOMIZABLE …
Line quality in fashion drawing- FELT TIP WATERPROOF PENS , whether analog or DIGITAL, are a staple and using a variety of pens can make your line quality in fashion drawing dynamic.: One really great way to explore line quality in fashion drawing, aside from the pencil/ charcoal route, is getting nitty-gritty with what is …
What are “fashion sketch proportions” all about? A lot of people, especially in the old days when i was a student, people 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 was your stamp of legitimacy. Extremely long, extremely lean. …
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