The Rabbit Hole of the Web World. Things You Learn in Fashion School: Rendering Fall Fabrics. Photo Credit As a fashion school student, I’m constantly being asked about the things I learn in class and what it’s like to major in fashion design. One of the big things we learn in fashion school is how to make fashion sketches. And a large part of that is rendering fabrics, or drawing the fabrics you plan to use in your design. Believe it or not, there is a right way and a wrong way to do this. If you’re going to be a fashion designer, you need to learn to put your ideas on paper in the correct way (so others can understand your designs), and rendering is an essential piece of that. As the new fall collections are strutting down the runway, I thought it would be the perfect time to drop some fashion school knowledge and show you the right way to draw the textiles you see on the catwalks. Tweed Step 1: Using a marker, draw horizontal dashed lines of varying lines.
Step 2: Repeat step one, but this time, with vertical lines. Herringbone Step 4: Erase pencil lines. Houndstooth Your Thoughts? World's Best Paper Airplanes. Questions for Characters. Learn a New Skill This Weekend. Writing Better Than You Normally Do. Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Because that is what writing is all about. Procrastination is an alluring siren taunting you to google the country where Balki from Perfect Strangers was from, and to arrange sticky notes on your dog in the shape of hilarious dog shorts.
A wicked temptress beckoning you to watch your children, and take showers. Well, it’s time to look procrastination in the eye and tell that seafaring wench, “Sorry not today, today I write.” The blank white page. Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” Finding a really good muse these days isn’t easy, so plan on going through quite a few before landing on a winner.