How To Draw A Plus Size Girl

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PLUS SIZE Fashion Illustration

How do we define plus size fashion Illustration…I'm using the term "PLUS SIZE" widely used out there, but:

even the tall, skinny models are "plus size" compared to the way so many fashion illustrators and designers are drawing.

Plus size is the overwhelming majority of figures and bodies.

And I love them. I love us! All of us.

I hope you enjoy today's video below where I show you how to sketch a plus size model in a yoga pose.
The pose is not a typical "fashion pose" but this actually makes it even a BETTER learning tool due to the exaggeration of it.

I also have other plus size videos for you here! You can even join the waitlist for the live Plus size fashion illustration workshop, below!

Today's video is a livestream replay and because of the exaggerated pose, you will learn some REALLY powerful tools for recreating and balancing a fashion pose as well as building the anatomical form!

It's a gem!!!!

Plus Size Fashion Illustration.

It's—-oh, I can't begin to tell you how I feel about fashion and size….

The way I was taught to draw models for my fashion design degree at Parsons the New School for Design in the 90s is so embarassing, I can't even share the photots any more… and I used to be so proud of them! yikes.

I was an A student. I was totally brainwashed into being at odds with myself. So sad.

Today, as a Parsons faculty, I would never give an A to a student drawing such horridly distorted figures.

But back then, it was a rule. And many today are still in that mode.

Far

too

many.

plus size fashion illustration workshop- Laura Volpintesta- plus size fashion croquis

I don't like having male or female teachers tell me that I have to lie about the female body in order to sketch fashion.

COME ON!

PLus Size Fashion Illustration Workshop Laura Volpintesta

To this day, I am really passionate as I realize

how the WAY I LEARNED

fashion design was an example of total disconnect.

I loved the craft and the art, but as a woman (and we were 97% female population there)

it was TOTALLY at odds with the reality of being a woman.

If fashion was going to change, it had to change on the school level.

I mean, if we worked like dogs, how were we going to care about whether we were employing sweatshop workers abroad?

As students, if we abused our bodies, how would we care about the environment and Mother Earth?

As young women going out into the world, how were we going to build lives in this crazy industry that supported us AS WOMEN and incorporate our family lives? The "great" jobs I got out of school totally obliterated my personal and social life outside of work.