YOUR INITIATION into Fashion Sketching on iPad! My iPad has become such a handy and essential, beloved and soulful tool for fashion illustration and design sketching for me, and today I want to share with you why and how…. I made it feel like HOME in SPITE OF MY RESISTANCE in hopes that it paves …
After resisting digital art supplies for decades, since 2015 I’ve been shouting from the rooftops that Tayasui Sketches is my favorite app for fashion design illustration and sketching….. HANDS DOWN! And I usually use it on my ipad. But ometimes I have a student or client who doesn’t have an iPad. (I first used Tayasui …
WONDERFUL: Tayasui Sketches Number 1 desktop app for Fashion Illustration (video post) Read More »
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.
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 -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 …
Instagram for fashion, design, and business- It’s a visual party! COME Read More »
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, 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 …
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 …
Ahhhhhhh, colors. Fashion. I’m obsessed. Right now it’s pale pale pale pink (which I never would have worn years ago), and royal blue, and mint green. Lemon yellow. I love pastels and pure hues when paired with each other or with white. Color is joy. Color is a public service. Color is happiness. Color is …
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 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 …
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 …
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