Fashion Illustration, Fashion Art, Fashion Design and Drawing Coaching and Courses!

SOULFUL FASHION FOUNDATION IMMERSION online program with Laura Volpintesta
Modeled after my favorite on-campus course for learning the process of fashion design sketching, a semester-sized deep dive into everything fashion design! Culminating in your first full portfolio collection presentation. Rinse, Repeat for a full fashion portfolio you can be proud of and fullfilled by.

MY SIGNATURE  SUITE OF FASHION EDUCATION COURSES: 

Learn Classic Fashion Illustration and Design Techniques -online 

with me,  Laura Volpintesta: fashion author, illustrator, designer, and creative catalyst with 27 years teaching fashion design at Parsons School of Design in NYC and globally. 

I also pioneered Parsons’ VERY FIRST FASION DESIGN ONLINE STUDIO COURSE for a degree program back in 2008! Which catapulted me to start FashionIllustrationTribe.

(don’t miss the testimonials page to learn more)

Fashion patternmaking, fashion draping, moulage, flat pattern and pattern drafting online course with Laura Volpintesta
Patternmaking and Draping inside one fashion design course. Learn pinning, marking, labelling, cutting and clipping, truing and manipulation of the whole basic pattern set, to estable a STRONG understanding of how clothes are put together and the freedome to design creatively, Learning fashion design this way improves your sketching skill while also freeing you up to make your own sample garments and SPEAK THE LANGUAGE of garment construction.
Fabric Form and Flow fashion design and illustration digital course with laura Volpintesta
FABRIC FORM AND FLOW oinline fashion design and illustration course focuses on special occasions, special fabrics, and special effectrs like shine, sheer, velvet, sparkle, feather, and more. Culminating in a creative design project, it introduces maker, gouache and freehand digital app illustration techniques for shadow, shine, and textural effects.
Learn FAshion Model Drawing- experience, confidence, flow and dynamics- with Laura Volpintesta in Model Drawing Magic ONline course
MODEL DRAWING MAGIC pulls back from perfectionism and detail to look at the bigger picture: HOW do you APPROACH DRAWING to increase flow, energy, accuracy, expression, dytnamics, #D form, and expand the way you think about art suppiies, the figure, and the creative process based on standing, posed “fashion” foigures.

Are you DEEPLY drawn to fashion illustration and/or  design?

 

….but feel like you don’t “know how to draw” — and so you feel stifled and stuck,  but  want to go deeper and realize your visions and dreams, expressing your vibrant creativity and style……

Fashion Illustration and Fashion Model Drawing online bootcamp course with Laura Volpintsta: 15 exercises to set you free
WEEKLY STUDIO SKETCHING DATE! on ZOOM- CONNECT- CREATE- EXPLORE
Swatches to Gouache online course: fashion sketching, fashion design and fashion illustration online program . Learn to render prints, textures and illustrate an original fashion collection for your fashion portfolio
Especially great if you love fabrics, texture, prints, patterns, and gouache, learn to illustrate, render, present and plan a capsule collection for portfolio with confidence and beauty! STEP{ BY STEP TUTORIALS the whole way to master gouache and color.
ipad fashion illustration course ABOUT FACES online course Laura Volpintesta
formerly called “ABOUT FACES”, learn fashion illustration first via the 3 angles of drawing faces, heads, hair and features for fashion. Learn 3 digital apps for fashion at the same tine . Then use these skills to design your capsule collection and illustrate in full color!

 DID you know that  you can learn fashion illustration tools and techniques, explore and sketch your ideas out in a self-paced but supported and encouraging community at a college level quality but without all the insitutional  beaurocracy, crowded facilities and stressed out professors?

Fashion Expression Experience Embodiment Bundle By Laura Volpintesta , fashion illustration tribe online course.
A friendly-priced introductory course to sample the full buffet of fashion learing topics, resources, discussions, tutorials, and project prompts that are covered more deeply in my other online fashion courses

Whether for career skill or for the pure exhilaration of creating, art and/ or fashion design skills are YOURS if you want them.

Fashion Illustration and Design Sketches in Gouache from Fashion Design Course by Laura Volpintesta

I REMEMBER like it was yesterday WHEN I COULDN”T DRAW AND COULDN”T EVEN IMAGINE HOW I WOULD BE ABLE TO.

Fashion Design Infusion online fashion sketching program for design with laura volpintesta

but now I spend most of my time coaching, teaching, and guiding beginners into the worlds of model drawing, fashion illustration, design sketching, portfolio, and more…

I believe 

I KNOW

That art is your BIRTHRIGHT.

I know that you can learn these tools, skills and mindset, with the right guidance. 

AND

I want you to LOVE what you do, and get experienced and confident but even more so develop a relationship with yourself, your creativity, and your power that surpasses what you thought was possible!

HAVE YOU ALWAYS LIVED fashion art and design?

Did you put off your dream of studying fashion?

Did you have to, for work, or for lack of funds or time or because you were unsupported or discouraged from doing what you really wanted to?

Are you wanting to act on this, finally?

In a setting that is affordable, time-flexible, and encouraging so that you can thrive and bloom?

Are you curious what you could do and make if you knew what Fashion  or Art School students were learning?

You can get started today: learn model drawing , fabric rendering, technical details, quick sketching, illustration, and how to sketch out a whole collection in my short courses or in my SIGNATURE PROGRAM : SOULFUL FASHION Foundation Immersion.

You’ll also

Create an original print design from scratch, inspiration boards, flats, learn to draw faces, poses, and watercolor/gouache techniques for sketching and illustrating in full color.

Did you know can learn fashion illustration, with paper, watercolors, and pencils–like in top fashion schools, right here, right now, with me or as a self study?

SIGNUP or learn more HERE!

And you can signup today for email updates and get a whole bundle of resources right away to start you on your journey while getting to know me and my philosophy, to see if we are a good fit!

Do you know you can get private tutoring, portfolio review, or lessons via Skype? 

BOOK YOUR SESSIONS now email info@fashionillustrationtribe.com

Have you heard about my digital 4 week workshop where I show you how to use art apps on Android and iOS for fashion illustration and master faces, heads, and hair? ENROLLMENT IS OPEN

You can even learn Technical Drawing  (Fashion Flats) from beginner square one, in my Bluprint.com class! GET STARTED TODAY!

Or just peruse one of my books: the Language of Fashion Design or the Fashion Designer’s Reference and Specification Manual. AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.

I’ve been teaching Fashion Courses at Parsons School of Design in NYC for 20 years now.

I’ve had over a thousand budding designers and illustrators come through my rooms and learn from beginner to porftolio level fashion courses in model drawing, illustration, and design.

EACH of them has had a UNIQUE VOICE, and I would love to help you bring out yours.


Colorful African Print Dresses fashion designs byLaura Volpintesta Designing Fashion Collections Sketching Designs and Illustrations, learn fashion design online at fashionillustrationtribe.com

Based on my “WHOAH!”  discoveries as a student and as a teacher, I’ve developed fashion courses for you because you can:

  • learn formal and informal sketch techniques
  • try new art supplies and tools
  • collect and create from inspiration
  • explore and discover your own unique style
  • learn standing, posed model drawing
  • render color and texture
  • sketch details, design collections

 

Laura Volpintesta, Fashion Illustrator. African Fashion/ African Print fashion designVisit the links to learn more, and don’t forget to subscribe!

Check out my bundled courses with coaching support for the best deals and attention.

Laura Volpintesta, Fashion Illustration Tribe

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