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Fashion Illustration Style Specialists: Representing top fashion illustrators & artists specialising in haute Couture to the cat walk, from catalogue to off the shelf. Digital fashion sketching with Tayasui Sketches app There aren’t many apps I enjoy as much as I do digital fashion sketching with Tayasui Sketches app. It’s my number one choice for any beginner getting started with digital fashion sketching. Tayasui Sketches isn’t any the less for being a.

“ABOUT FACES”- digital fashion art course teaches you all about faces: front, profile and 3/4 angle.

while ALSO teaching you some elegant, fun, imaginative and amazingly versatile APPS on your iPad or tablet to sketch them with!

Digital Fashion Drawings

I have always taught art and fashion sketching with gouache, watercolors, pencils, ink pens…. and still do!

When and why did I begin teaching and making digital fashion art?

Exactly one year ago, though, I started exploring apps on my new iPad to see what they were capable of for drawing and illustration.

I was skeptical and resistant and found a LOT OF APPS I DIDN’T LIKE AT ALL!

And then, I had a breakthrough……….

I found one single app that seemed to open the doors for me. It felt right– and so

I FELL IN LOVE with them!

(and I”m still in love with “old school art supplies” too! We use them in my Signature FREEDOM FASHION online semester course.)

REASONS why I adore digital art apps on a tablet, iPad or device.

• digital fashion drawing is clean and bright
• sketching tools in apps are easy to erase
• drawing on a device is versatile than you think
• digital illustration is clearer when you share it on social
• different art apps have different capabilities…. some are very slick and clean, some are more “organic” and natural in feel.
• digital art doesn’t HAVE to look flat, stiff, or lifeless
• apps are elegant and inexpensive
• you can use your iPad to create art anytime, anywhere, with no mess and nothing much to carry!
• a stylus is NOT required
• you can zoom in on your work for detail
• it’s easy to sign, watermark, and resize your images for different purposes. (I’ll teach you how I use an app to create and use a watermark!)

I’ll teach you my favorite apps plus some tools for watermarking your work as a bonus.

You’ll learn all of my favorite design, color, and drawing tips for faces and getting a fashion feeling to express however you see it!

I’ve been working with beginner to advanced students for 20 years at Parsons School of Design. Trust me.

Let’s explore, grow, and master these apps in the spirit of fun and expression!

All of these images are mine, created on iPad from photos and/ or from my imagination.

Hi I’m Laura Volpintesta!- a 20 years freelance fashion designer/ illustrator and Parsons Fashion Faculty in NYC and online.

Digital Fashion Group

I’m also the Author of the Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Fashion Designers Should Know and co-author of the Fashion Design Reference and Specification Manual. I’m a Craftsy instructor (see my Designing with Fashion Flats class) , body positive and ethical fashion advocate, encourager, motivator, “cheerleader”, teacher! And a single mom-preneur.

Let’s find and bring out your voice and your skills in art and fashion!

IN THIS COURSE:

The face, head, hair and features….

Deserve some time and attention just for themselves!

They carry so much expression and have a lot of building blocks.

• nose
• eyes
• ears
• mouth
• hair
• shading
• line
• lashes
• highlights
• textures
• contours

Let’s use the face as a vehicle to also explore some great simple yet elegant, w o n d e r f u l digital fashion art apps that you can use right in your iPad or iPad mini. They’re cheap, elegant and versatile and I used them to create the images you see on this page.

I can’t wait to guide you through four weeks of videos exercises, lessons and projects that will tap you into your creative expression and give you valuable experience and insights.

Signup now

Receive 4 modules, each with an hour of video, demonstrations, and exercises- your signup gives you lifetime access to your course materials!

I look forward to meeting you!

questions? info@fashionillustrationtribe.com

love,

Laura

I resisted for a loooooooong time, and seriously, I really had not desire to switch over.

But not I”m loving it! I’d love to get you started too….

Whether for life drawing, doodling (below, using Adobe Photoshop Sketch app)

or for fashion illustration, ( both digital fashion drawing portraits below, Tayasui Sketches Pro App)

Or for full-fledged fashion croquis with details, prints, seams, posed fashion models, etc….(Tayasui sketches, below)

Digital fashion drawing is FUN and SEDUCTIVE. (and did I say addictive too?) Use apps in your device to have a full range of art supplies on hand.

Aw, ARE YOU TERRIFIED STILL????

Digital Fashion Program

But are you CURIOUS, even?

After taking Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Courses LONG AGO, I had decided I did NOT like them for art.

But the APPS ARE DIFFERENT.

Also, as a Parsons Fashion Faculty, what I saw students doing with digital painting was resulting in flat, stiff, cold, dull, lifeless art. It’s not their fault…those clunky programs were no fun at all. So it only made me love those watercolors and gouache more than I already did! I’m someone who loves movement, emotion, life, passion, vitality…….

PLUS- The Adobe digital programs were too laborious, intellectual and un-inspiring, to me.

There were too many options and too much to learn. It didn’t feel like painting at all!!! –It didn’t foster a creative mood.

I don’t know about you, but I’m insinctive and intuitive. It’s for that reason alone that I love the arts. Are you like that too?

Why struggle with tedious, clunky programs, when I wan to jump in, feel something, and express it while i’m feeling it?

(below, I used the Adobe Illustrator Draw app for the digital fashion drawing of the redhaired profile)

One fine day, I bought

and discovered some amazing art and digital painting apps, offering:

• lush colors
• smooth and bright textures
• variable line qualities
• easy-erasures
• undo and redo features
• zoomability
• discovery and suprise
• portability of art tools
• easy cleanup and storage of your artwork!

Below are a few examples from my process creating a fashion illustration by digital fashion drawing with Adobe Illustrator Draw App.

when you have these skills!

That’s why I love digital drawing apps, and the ones I use are available for Windows and iOS tablets and devices like iPhone, iPad.

So go ahead, I hope you enjoy this gallery and also LEARN MORE ABOUT MY DIGITAL PAINTING COURSE!

Fashion Drawing Templates

DON’T FORGET to make sure you subscribe today to get your fabulous freebies and lessons so you can get started creating fashion right away! Not only illustrations, but sketches and collections of sketches around unique themes, while developing your own style, just like I’ve been teaching at Parsons for 20 years.