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Revisiting these Marker and digital sketches: #capoeira DM to purchase. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqL_krIvvrl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I never said i was a minimalist . This is fun. Dont forget to play!!!!! #playstate #sweaterdressing #holidayfashion #uglysweaters #sweaters #knitwear #knits #crochet #pompom #christmassweaters #winteroutfit #winterfashion #croquis https://www.instagram.com/p/CmLHrWlscNE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Now that the holiday feeling is in the air with cold weather and twinkly lights, it’s my favorite time to launch my FABRIC FORM and FLOW program for fashion design and illustration. I use design projects and processes to guide you through learning #fashiondesign and #fashionillustration skills as you learn the principles to render special fabrics like sheer, shiny, metallic, velvet, fuzzy, feathers, and more…. To develop #fashion stories and collections of sketches and #croquis that express and evolve your style, point of view, technique and vision thru various media. What will your collection look like and how can you take your sketches to a new level by committing to a program and applying it to the visions and aesthetic that are u inquest to YOU?? You can start as soon as you sign up. This week only you’ll receive Fashion Design Infusion 8 hour masterclass series FREE with enrollment (777 value). Dive deep into the arts of adornment. Let me know in the comments below if you’ll be joining us for this lifetime acces, self- study journey with private area where you can share your work and ask your questions. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQGU7YsUoa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Using Watercolor Wash with (Tombow) Marker for Fashion Drawing

Using Watercolor Wash with (Tombow) Marker for Fashion Drawing

Today’s post is going to look at some of the range and possibilities available to you when you explore watercolor wash with markers for fashion drawing! This was a demonstration that happened in class session today- first. I sketched the model’s figure lightly in pencil. Once I felt like I had built her whole body , I dilineatwd the proportion, size, shape, and details of the outfit so I had a…

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Drawing Fashion Design with Brush Pens

Drawing Fashion Design with Brush Pens

When we are drawing fashion design, what is our goal? Brush Pens bring a rich drama to the page when we are aiming for drama, mood, texture, expressiveness, and definition. The wide range of expressions that com out of a single brush pen can be just what you needed to emphasize layers and folds, pleats, gathers, ruffles, overlaps, or crisp shadows under hems. Bursh pens speak the very language of…

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Brown Paper bag fashion sketching

Brown Paper bag fashion sketching

Brown Paper Bag Fashion Sketching Brown Paper bags are toned paper- why not make use of them as such? In Fashion Sketch Group a few weeks ago I sliced up this paper bag into one long panoramic length of paper (with the handles on both ends) and sketched the model poses across it. I used blacks and whites for my Paper Bag fashion sketching because I knew that the paper bag itself would hold a…

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Plus size Fashion Model Sketching

Plus size Fashion Model Sketching

How do we even define “plus size model?” If, In the fashion design industry, sizing is unregulated and inconsistent across the board. In fact; in fashion schools, students are still learning —and teachers and illustrators often perpetuating the use of— proportions that don’t exist in human form, then where do we decide we are in the range of “plus”? When I design or sketch, or teach fashion…

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Fashion Illustration Tools

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#digital drawing #fashion art #fashion design #fashion drawing #fashion illustration #fashion sketching #model drawing

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High Impact Model Drawing Exercises for Fashion Illustration

Have you practiced your model drawing lately? Let's go ! Now is our time.

Today I want to talk to you about one of my most high Impact Model Drawing Exercises for Fashion Illustration. REMEMBER: when you subscribe for my newsletter, you’ll get a welcome packet that includes a model drawing tutorial! The first weeks of teaching model drawing are always based on my own most influential teacher of all time, because it was such an awakening for me in so many ways. Even…

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ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR FASHION SKETCHING on iPad

ESSENTIAL TIPS FOR FASHION SKETCHING on iPad

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#fashionillustration #fashion #drawing #fashiondrawing #fashionsketch #adobefrescofashion #adobefresco #fashionsketch

Adobe Fresco for Fashion Illustration

Adobe Fresco for Fashion Illustration

I’ve been very open about how I don’t adore Procreate nor Adobe Fresco for fashion illustration on my iPad… (and I’m also very easy to articulate EXACTLY WHY- read on) and how sad I was that they discontinued my beloved Adobe Draw and Adobe Sketch apps… (which were some of my favorites featured in ABOUT FACES) and combined them into this new Adobe Fresco app that CAN DO WHAT Draw and Sketch…

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WONDERFUL: Tayasui Sketches Number 1 desktop app for Fashion Illustration (video post)

WONDERFUL: Tayasui Sketches Number 1 desktop app for Fashion Illustration (video post)

let’s explore the tools and capabilities of Tayasui Sketches app when used for Fashion Illustrations and Sketches– scroll down to see the video) 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…

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digital fashion illustrations with apps

digital fashion illustrations with apps

Today I’ll share with you a series ofdigital fashion illustrations over the past few months of the fashion designer Layana Aguilar. (yes, I coach on model drawing, analog and digital fasion illustrations, and fashion technical design so make sure you subscribe or reach out if you have questions about working together [email protected] ) I am so inspired by her for so many…

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WHY do you draw??? The question is everything The answer, the feelings the question invokes for you, is YOUR answer No “right” or “wrong”! Your DESIRE to create is pure, whole and sacred before it gets loaded down with judgments or meanings from you or others. Peeeeeeeeeeeel back those layers Under it all is the most raw, fiery sweet direct undeniable delicious unopposed CERTAINTY TRUTH JOY PLAY -STATE FLOW Knowing. I can ask and i’m as curious as you are to know your response, But it isnt up for evaluation negotiation or proof of some “worthiness”...... It’s yours Jump into it Immerse in this libido Life-force energy that animates you Fascinates you And emanates from you!! If you put it on a pedestal far away from you, there itbwill be. If you recognize it, pull it into the centers of you, your belly, your heart your mind your womb YOU, Divine YOU is why And you are here to follow your calling. everyone wins when you fulfill your calling. And the deeper you go into something, the deeper you go into anything, because that is the nature of things. #modeldrawing #figuredrawing #fashiondrawing #drawing #fashionillustration — what could be a deeper dive tan expressing through the #HUMANFORM!!!!??? And why?? That’s up to you. Our group container takes off July 14 with early bird thru July 7...... Life-force-life-drawing!!!!! DM with questions or for links. Let’s see if this is the fit for you! YOU will know— you’ll feel it in that purest place of desire and creation within. Fully!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CQtlRXyMGob/?utm_medium=tumblr

#modeldrawing #figuredrawing #fashiondrawing #drawing #fashionillustration #humanform

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Here is another exploration from the same session as my upside- down drawing (previous post). DRAWN WITH MY NON-DOMINANT HAND in #gouache. I’m a lefty, i did this #drawing with my right hand in our live session. We all did the same pose with our non- dominant hand and it was soooooo obvious how much more movement and soft, wild truth came through from participants.... A level of movement that we can have difficulty accessing when we are trying to be perfect. Not only does switching hands relinquish control and invite a playfulness .... But it also slows you down, heightens your attention, and balances hemispheres of your brain. I love bring people ESPECIALLY MYSELF lol - through these sorts of exercises! because we are usually so distracted by how odd we feel while doing them and immersed in strange curiosity and feeling of “newness” and openness That its only when the “time is up” and the pose is over That we “snap out” of the almost hypnotic state and see objectively what we’ve actually done!!! There are so mamy different ways to feel to focus to free and to refine our approaches to drawing the figure and interpreting it as our own personal expressions! It’s really always a neverending and always evelving journey into the self and reconnection with our truth and source. Personal for each of us, our style and journey emerge and evolve endlessly. We begin July 14 - a group online studio journey deep into #modeldrawing #figuredrawing #fashiondrawing and #fashionillustration for just a few souls. SO fun and magical. DM me for more info! https://www.instagram.com/p/CQtDW1psaGy/?utm_medium=tumblr

#gouache #drawing #modeldrawing #figuredrawing #fashiondrawing #fashionillustration

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WHY DID WE DRAW FROM AN UPSIDE-DOWN PHOTO IN #MOdeldrawing #fashionsketchgroup last week?? Because its an amazing way to break free from the “left brain” and get way more HONEST about what we see. Its truly amazing what happens when you get “tricked” or “fooled” into your innate and previously untapped ABILITY!!!!!! When you move into playful territory and are forced to lose the control you usually cling to for safety,.... The ego gets edged out.... You, like me and hundreds of clients i’ve worked with over the years, will find ..... that you are more accurate with less strain or stress than when you “have all the control”!! I talk all of the time about #drawing “from the inside out”, which we’ll talk more about this week, but for today let’s talk about UPSIDE- DOWN with the rememberance that When we are turned upside down? We get a 180 degree shift in perspective. My July #fashiondrawing #figuredrawing intensive is geared for beginner to intermediate + designed to completely re-arrange the way you think about drawing, + about your art supplies, + about yourSELF and how + why you create!! It’s 8 online studio sessions involving basic technique +mechanics, Plus truly innovative + refreshing approaches to drawing + sketching with various media to explore + express throught the female form in ways that awaken your senses... Through gorgeous music, vibid color, expressive line, gorgeous garments.... Light and shadow, texture, dynamics, style, storytelling, and The confidence that experience brings In a cozy intimate small group where vulnerability, discovery, and connection infuse our container. #8 sessions, we brgin July 14- August 13 meeting Wednesdays and Fridays 4-6:30 to dive in deep together . Early bird price ends July 7, DM me for more info if you KNOW IN YOUR HEART this journey is for you! It’s going to be unforgettable and FILL your sketchbooks with discovery, adventure, feeling amd exploration. Either way, I used a brush tip watercolor marker on marker paper to create this #upsidedown drawing +was thrilled when i flipped it uprightaa as were the participants in our sketch session! Try it today,limit yourself to 5 mins, tag me! https://www.instagram.com/p/CQsHGiKMJXC/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I have a secret! Swipe left for my secret.... the “undersketch”. I used a brush tip watercolor marker to “map out “ my #modeldrawing before taking a fresh sheet of sketch paper to create my “clean”-ish sketch on top, using a fresh sheet. That’s the beauty of sketch paper- it’s sheer enough see through. The drawback of sketch paper is how it wrinkles up when wet. Anyway, It’s very freeing to create a drawing where you alteady know where everything needs to be places— That just frees you up to get playful with other decisions and expressions! Brought to you from: Another sketch from yesterday’s #fashionsketchgroup session Oh ✏️ I used oil pastel for the yellow and #EBONYPENCIL for everything else (DM me for the ongoing subscription link— I have 2 slots for our cozy weekly group Wednesdays 2-4 EST). https://www.instagram.com/p/CQO_PYGMzvH/?utm_medium=tumblr

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