Fashion Illustration Tribe
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Laura Volpintesta has been teaching since 1997 (BFA Fashion pattern/draping/sewing) and since 2000 (AAS Fashion drawing, design, portfolio). Laura Volpintesta creates and guides online fashion art and drawing courses to foster "fashion in our own image": fashion and portfolio courses that offer an alternative to expensive, university programs by encouraging study from home.
Fashion Illustration Tribe
6d ago
Fashion Pattern and Draping studio: Flares and Facings tutorials LOTS OF FREE TUTORIALS ON THIS PAGE BELOW! FOR MORE, JOIN PATTERNMAKING DEMYSTIFIED COURSE ENROLLMENT CLOSES SOON! LIFETIME ACCESS COURSE WITH SUPPORT IN OUR PRIVATE COMMUNITY SPACE. Free Studio Class time- How about just ONE principle? (Umm or 2) Yokes (or horizontal stylelines) can be highly ..read more
Fashion Illustration Tribe
3w ago
Figure Drawing is a journey ⚡️FOUNDATIONS of FIGURE DRAWING⚡️ how about a five week, live group program training bringing you into fluency in #figuredrawing for #fashion, #costume, #illustration and especially profound personal experiences of satisfaction, discovery, curiosity, inspiration and joy??? BODY LANGUAGE starts 3/8/2024 and runs for 5 Fridays on Zoom. We’ll start by creating ..read more
Fashion Illustration Tribe
1M ago
Body Language: Model Drawing It’s back! My 5 week Live Figure Drawing/ Model Drawing Program on Zoom, 5 “Fashion Fridays” for learning model drawing (for costume, fashion, design, profession, pleasure or play). We start live 3/8/2024 meeting 6:30=8:30 online. We’ll sketch from standing, posed, expressive figures for 5 weeks and I’ll share everything i ..read more
Fashion Illustration Tribe
8M ago
Fantastic Color Blocking Exercise for Fashion Illustration Color blocking is an extremely powerful fashion drawing exercise – Illustration by Laura Volpintesta Color blockYes, you can read this article, but it’s NOTHING without action! I encourage you RIGHT NOW to grab colored pencils (if your paper is smallish like up to letter size) or oil pastel …
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Fashion Illustration Tribe
9M ago
Bangs in this fashion illustration, of course, are also a kind of fringe! What comes to mind when you think of fringe? the Fringes of Fashion Illustration Just two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about movement. When I was done, I couldn’t stop thinking about fringe!!! At the same time, I’m tickled to …
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Fashion Illustration Tribe
9M ago
DRAWING WITH TWO HANDS Whether for fashion model drawing , which I teach on the regular for several decades now at Parsons School of Design, or for ANY model drawing or any DRAWING at ALL, drawing with two hands i s a powerful exercise that might seem silly “childish” to you at first. But like most …
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Fashion Illustration Tribe
9M ago
Rendering Special Fabrics: Surface, Weight, and Texture In celebration of the summer session of FABRIC FORM AND FLOW 8 week journey into textured and reflective fabric rendering enrollment for July 1 start date (closing enrollment doors until next year), I’d like to share some insights into capturing special fabric textures with various media. These sketches …
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Fashion Illustration Tribe
9M ago
MOVEMENT IN FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Movement, what is it? What comes to mind to you when you think about the concept or FEELING of movement, of motion, when thinking of figures and of clothing? What about when thinking of design? MOVEMENT is a “design principle” As much as it describes actual MOTION, “movement” is also a …
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Fashion Illustration Tribe
9M ago
ADOBE FRESCO for fashion illustration Let’s look in to Adobe Fresco app freehand fashion illustration on the iPad or tablet is one of my favorite media for fashion illustration, as well as simply one of my favorite art forms! I love fashion design and illustration (I graduated Parsons in 1995 and teaching there since 1997- …
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