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 today. Let me know in the comments below if you have any paradigm shifts or fresh results from working through this list! I’m definitely […]
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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
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OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING 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/ drawing from observation Yet I’m an idealist Virgo who is most creative when I know what the rules
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( go deeper! –MODEL MAGIC ONLINE MODEL DRAWING BOOTCAMP SIGNUP CLICK HERE–) Today: 7 key tipsOde 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, calligraphic
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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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Fashion Proportions: That’s kind of funny. Me blogging in a few hundred words about a topic that could easily be a BOOK. Perhaps Naomi Wolf’s the Beauty Myth, for starters? People’s eyes get “used” to anything, if they see it enough. Yet we still haven’t gotten to see images that tell us that our bodies and
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Fashion Art Supplies for Illustration and Design Do you have what you need in your kit? Sometimes we’re giving to others, sometimes to ourselves, but here are some of my forever favorite supplies for designing and illustrating. All of the products are clickable links! I’ve posted several times about supplies, but what can I say? You
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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 heaad also has a ration relationship to width of the body. So an 8 head figure can be
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Fashion Sketchbook: Adding Color to the Croquis Good day, TRIBE! Back to the Fashion Sketchbook!! How are we feeling? Another day, another fresh start to try new things, creating the life we dream of…. I’ve been reviewing the final layout and text for my BOOK!!!! I have to say that when I opened the file,
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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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Do You Want to Learn How to Draw Fashion??? HELLO FASHION TRIBALISTAS!!!! Good day! (Good night?) How are you today? Are you feeing inspired? Do you have even a half hour or an hour to whip out your pencils and do some model drawing? A refresher or beginner video “How to Draw Fashion” is included at
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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
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