21
Oct
Freebie alert – Design your fashion croquis’s outfit like Versace for H&M
Having worked at H&M as a teenager in Hamburg, Germany; this place obviously always has a special place in my Fashion Design heart.
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28
Sep
Celebrating 500 fans on facebook with files and video tutorial
Today any click-able text will take you to FB page: Thank you for FashionChalkboard.com’s 500 fans mile stone! Celebrate with me on my facebook page by being inspired, watching the videos and downloading the pdf and ai file to keep and take apart.What will you learn? Learn to use simple tools like the ellipse tool in Illustrator combined with Illustrator CS5 new width tool to create brushes to create a beautiful pattern print for your fashion flat sketches. Read more 22
Sep
How to draw a fashion flat sketch in Illustrator? Part 1 understanding the final result first
All beginnings are hard, but they can be made a lot easier by taking the time to understand the problem or in our case flat sketch first. This video which is part of our beginner course “Adobe ® Illustrator ® for Fashion Design”, will show you how to take existing flat sketches apart and explain what needs to happen when you draw your first fashion flat sketch.
21
Apr
How to create a flat sketch in Illustrator – changes in process since CS3 to CS5
Scroll down to see images of some of the tutorial that I will go over.
Join me for a quick free webinar covering what has changed to make our work flow for creating flat sketches as a fashion designer faster since Adobe came out with Illustrator CS5? Read more
24
Mar
Flat sketch jacket with fancy ribbon download of ai ribbon
Enjoy today’s download of the gradient brushed ribbon (Click here to download the zip file of the Fashion Ribbon ). Feel free to use it along any of your flat sketches. The process of drawing this took me quite a while, but I think it is worth it. Do you know how to create a ribbon brush like this? Go ahead and pull it out of the brushes window and take it apart…ungroup and so on. Read more
9
Mar
Free Friday Mini Fashion Webinar – Laces in Illustrator
To create a lace for your Fashion Flat sketch in Illustrator you can do many different things, I am going to show you a basic technique that I used almost daily as Lingerie Designer. Take a peak at the snapshots below to see how I did it and if you are unsure about the process go ahead and join me during this next session.
Attendees will receive the free files after webinar ! Reserve your spot now.. Read more
8
Mar
Fashion Flat sketch combining Illustrator and Photoshop skills
Last week during a live Intermediate to advanced Photoshop webinar I taught how to combine scanned images of scanned paint splatters with a heart symbol. I defined a brush from the splattered heart. I then created a path of a heart in and a used the splattered heart brush along this new heart. The result of this was a new Heart with big and small hearts rotated along the heart shape. This was then defined as a new brush that I used to draw a graphic with. Read more
13
Jan
Photoshop and Illustrator for Fashion
Every now and then I receive an email with CADs* from someone who used my video training. I always appreciate it especially when I have never had the chance to meet the individual in person. These sketches came with this nice little note: “Hi Ludmila, Attached are some CADs* I sketched utilizing Photoshop and Illustrator. I sketch my initial bodies in Illustrator and then I fill the print in Photoshop. The print was taken from a scarf I bought which had a nice border. I have been sketching pretty much daily lately and with your help and the help of good friends I have come a long way. I just wanted to say thanks! Later today I will email you another few CADs* which are coming out nicely and they have more depth than these. Talk to you soon, Kent Daniel ” Well, I asked Kent for permission to post his sketches and he said yes. So thank you Kent for letting me share them here:
Look closely at the jeweled trim that can be cleaned up in Photoshop to use along the flat sketch to give it more depth. Using Photoshop to clean up the scan of the textile (taken from a scarf) then putting it inside a clean Illustrator flat sketch.
Feel free to leave Kent a comment about his work.
Feel like sharing your sketches with me?
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*Computer aided designs not to be confused with the program CAD13
May
Fashion Flat with Animal print-Giraffe
What kind of Fashion Flat Sketch would you use this print in? Today I finally finished a download that I planned to do for a long time. This download will allow you to play around with an animal print. This one will be the first of a series of different animal patterns that I will design. This one is a giraffe print that I designed in Photoshop then expanded in Illustrator so-that the recolor artwork feature in CS4 can easily create new colorways.
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You can download your Illustrator file for CS4 on the explore page right here. Let me know what you have created with this print and have FUN!
