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Phase 1: Starting Out

Must learn: Fashion skills

Goal: Feeling confident about your skills

Whether you just decided to learn fashion, or you have time learning, you still have lots of things to learn + practice + improve about fashion.

The way you learn is up to you. Depending on the time + money you have available, you can pick all the options that you want. Now you have tons of options at your disposal from free like YouTube + resources like this, to paid like books, school, and online courses.

Your goal at this phase is to learn + practice + improve as much as you can. Enough to feel tremendously confident about your skills.

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Some of the fashion skills you could learn are

  • Fashion drawing
  • Fashion illustration
  • Fashion illustration techniques, like watercolors + markers
  • Fashion design
  • Surface + Textile pattern design
  • Adobe Illustrator for fashion
  • Adobe Illustrator for textile patterns
  • How to design a clothing collection
  • How to design an illustration collection
  • How to design a textile collection
  • How to design a surface pattern collection
  • Working with inspiration
  • How to make an effective research
  • Composition
  • Pattern Making
  • Sewing

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Your milestones are

  1. Decide you want to learn fashion
  2. Make a list of all the fashion skills you want to learn
  3. Determine HOW you want to learn those skills (Books, Courses, School)
  4. Acquire what you need to learn those skills (Books + Courses + Materials + Tools)
  5. Schedule learning your fashion skills, and learn
  6. Schedule practicing your fashion skills, and practice
  7. Learn one skill at a time, practice it, evaluate your performance, and improve it. Then, continue with the next skill
  8. Assess your levels of confidence. How confident do you feel about your skills? Are you ready to move on?

HELPFUL RESOURCES

  1. Fashion Illustration Tool-Kit
  2. Learn how to Draw Fashion Figures + Faces
  3. Get Started with Watercolors
  4. Learn Watercolors for Fashion Illustration
  5. Learn to Create a Simple Fashion Illustration

P.S: Have you seen the COURSES I have for you at the Fashion School?

They’re FUN + COMPREHENSIVE + AFFORDABLE! If you want to go deeper in your learning and complete those milestones faster, go check them out 😉

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FREE: Get Started with Fashion Drawing!
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FREE: Get Started with Fashion Drawing!