17
Oct
Color names and codes for Illustrator and Photoshop – Quick video tip
Watch this video to learn to find quick inspiration for color names for you new color swatches that you are using in your line sheets, mood and trend boards for new fashion collections. Read more
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.
20
Sep
Seamless pattern in Illustrator tutorial on youtube
Click here to check out this new social profile website.While there watch your seamless video tutorial by clicking on the youtube icon
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1
May
Fashion Tech packs for store deliveries
It’s late at night and I am editing a long overdue session from my live techpacks webinars. The beginning of this session is a great overview to learn what goes into a Fashion Tech packs that factories need that will ship production garments directly to a store with specific requirements. Read more 
11
Oct
What is the Cut & Paste event?
Give them Illustrator, Photoshop, other software, a brief to follow, music, an live audience, a time limit and you have a competition that will be educational and fun. Yesterday, I saw a tiny little add on facebook.com about the yearly Cut & Paste event in Los Angeles. Every year since 2005 I missed it for some reason or another, so this time I had to go! And I am glad that I went. Among a nice, like minded, geeky audience, good music and an open bar 3 hours of quick paced competitions were fun to watch. Additionally one of the sponsors “Converse” held a drawing contest of which I will post some images in another post.






For those of you who do not know what this event is about here is a brief summary:
The annual Cut & Paste live event, is a competition that challenges digital designers to create artwork within a limited time-frame sitting on stage in-front of a live audience. They are giving a brief… (see videos), then compete to create most creative artwork in 2D or 3D and win a prize at the end of the evening. The winner of the night will then participate in the final event that brings together competitors from around the world.
Create a yearbook layout with the theme “Frienemy”. Frienemy refers to any enemy that you have to be friendly with.
Create any tutorial of your choice
11
Jun
Video Tutorial- New features in Illustrator CS5 recorded during live webinar
During a May 2010 webinar session for FIDM Alumni, I promised to quickly cover new features of the Illustrator CS5 software. The webinar was an Intermediate – Advanced Illustrator techniques class geared towards offering creative solutions to creating graphics, textiles and custom fonts in Illustrator for fashion designers. The new features covered in the video are:* bristle brushes
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