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bookworm: silhouettes: rediscovering the lost art
Silhouettes: Rediscovering the Lost Art, by Kathryn Flocken I recently checked this book out from the library because I’m crazy about silhouettes and want to start up a silhouette gallery in our...
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mr. whiskers put on his bow-tie just for you
Speaking of being delinquent on letter-writing, I’m feeling all the more guilty now that I got this cutesy from my sis in Australia. (Aren’t airmail envelopes charmant?) She’s been teaching herself to...
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- –– a new path –– -
I signed up for a class at the New York Fashion Academy! (In Ballard, not New York.) My first class is Fashion Illustration I, wherein I will learn to draw a fashion figure in motion and “clothing...
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learning to draw figures
This is an 8 1/2-head figure, which is what most of us are in real life. I call this lady Joan. She looks like a Joan. In my illustration class we learned to draw her, head by head, with “correct”...
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drawing features
We learned to draw pleats, ruffles, bows, and drapes in my fashion illustration class! I did lots of practices at home, and then started using the basic features on some basic designs. The best part...
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drawing fashions on figures
We’re getting down to the nitty-gritty in my fashion illustration class. We were assigned to draw a day dress based on a photo of our own choosing. I drew a frilly sort of 1920’s vintage looking...
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30-second sketches
Fast Sketch class, a Saturday morning, dosing myself with caffeine. The teacher instructs us to place a croquis under our paper. Unsettling, he gives us each a pen instead of a pencil– no erasing our...
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