Drawing and Composition on iPad
Nude model drawing, or any drawing, is “set off” by compositions, choices, layout, deicsions on the page. Using the iPad apps to create my art gives me options to save different versions and compare my choices.
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Fashion Figure Drawing
Fashion Figure Drawing – LIVE! So, here’s what happened on Periscope.tv/Lvolpintesta today. (click to see my channel). I created a fashion figure drawing from scratch, working from an image that I liked, then added in the fashion details so that it looked real and gave clear construction and design information, because I love to do …
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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Fashion Illustration Techniques: Textures and Contours
MY LOVES!!! LET’S TALK about the role of CONTOURS in FASHION ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES! …..Edges, curves, textures, and lines. “Contours” are turning, winding edges. CONTOURS are something I refer to A LOT. Once you get into discussing visual arts and drawings, it is a vital word. Specifically, CONTOUR refers to outlines, and edges. For fashion design …
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Sketching Fashion Figures in Profile
Sketching Fashion Figures, or any figure, in profile, always seems to present unique challenges. There’s a video in this post, to help you with sketching profile fashion figures. understanding body anatomy and mechanics (above) and practicing them helps us sketch with flowy ease (below) We seem to have a “frontal” orientation to seeing things, as …
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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Fashion Portfolio Elements
FASHION ILLUSTRATION CLASSES: what do I need? Hello Gorgeous Visionaries! A crop of new videos up on my YouTube channel: Informational and inspirational, I thought this week’s topics (fabric, paintbrush, message) might be really helpful for you if you are considering fashion design schools or courses for your design portfolio. I’ll release two a day until …
Breathe more LIFE and MOVEMENT into your fashion illustrations
How do you breathe more LIFE and MOVEMENT into your fashion illustrations? Everybody asks “how do I get the stiffness out of my drawings?”. I’ve got 10 FABULOUS TIPS for you. Let me know in the comments below if you have any game-changers from this list! HELLO TRIBE! I’m definitely biased towards lively, moving drawings….. …
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Illustrating fashion in Gouache: a walk-through
Illustrating fashion designs in gouache: Do YOU GET NERVOUS approaching the blank page? That’s normal. I thought I’d share a few photos step by step of myself illustrating fashion design from a photo/model/dress/design/fabric that I just loved by KachiDesigns, (who I discovered through AfricaFashionWeek (AFW) and follow on Instagram). My remedy for “blank page freeze-up” is …
Learn to draw fashion by drawing what you see
I don’t like to make any strict rules about things when I teach or learn or live. But I do think the best way to learn to draw fashion is by drawing what you see. Yet I’m an idealist Virgo who is most creative when I know what the rules are, so I can push …
Awesome! Pencil for Fashion Design and Illustration
( go deeper! –MODEL MAGIC ONLINE MODEL DRAWING BOOTCAMP SIGNUP CLICK HERE–) Today: 7 key tips Ode to the pencil for fashion design and illustration: psssss…JOIN MODEL MAGIC ONLINE BOOTCAMP NOW ENROLLMENT IS OPEN Yes! I love those felt tip pens! Oh, the china marker! Charcoal! Colored pencils! Watercolor pencils! Design markers, felt-tip india ink, …
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On Art and Learning
Art and Learning for All NO, art isn’t a magical, mystical privilege bestowed upon the select few who are born with perfect drawing skills. In 2001, when I was pregnant with my second child, the Chair of the Fashion Department looked at my big belly, due in September, and said “why don’t we take a hiatus …
