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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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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Fashion Designing:Creative Process Hey TRIBE, How are you doing? Here’s some more vlog material from the series where I’m developing a capsule collection of dresses from this group of swatches: I gave myself the challenge of Fashion Designing with COLOR BLOCKING this collection: meaning, I decided to use a number of fabrics in different
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MARKERS or GOUACHE for Fashion Sketching? MARKERS: Markers for fashion drawing and illustration can be fun, novel, quick, handy. I was very excited the first time I used art markers and I even have a favorite brand. Chartpack markers (below left) are really wet with a softish chisel tip. ( DO YOUR RESEARCH- on chemical
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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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Choosing Fashion Fabrics for Design Collections (VIDEO lesson enclosed) Above, a fabric board inspiring a design collection before sketching. Every designer has their own aesthetic, voice and style. I tend to lean towards colors, textures and prints that are vivid , but your own sensibility could be radically different. .. What I know for sure
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Fashion Sketching for Beginners! You can subscribe to my website to get this and more in a free class, including community and feedback in the discussion areas! But you lucked out landing on this blog post, because it includes THREE DELICIOUS instruction videos about fashion sketching for beginners. I teach you exactly how to build
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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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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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Gouache Technique for illustrating fashion- my process 4 GOUACHE COLORS YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT!! I’m here to introduce you to my gouache technique for fashion sketches, which means to also 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”
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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
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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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