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Fashion Illustration Tutorial: Iridescent Fabrics

In this video Zoe will talk about the process of rendering iridescent fabrics and she will share the methods she uses in fashion design.
Length 24:15
Price Free of charge
Subject Fashion Design
Languages English
Video Transcripts English

About the video

What are iridescent fabrics and how are they made? How do you illustrate them? What are all these colors bouncing around, how do you identify them, how do you pick your mediums, how to place shadows and highlights, how to do you illustrate iridescent fabrics?
All these questions will be answered in this helpful video by Zoe Hong.

Meet the instructors

Zoe Hong is a fashion designer and illustrator who used to teach university fashion classes until her YouTube channel took over her life. She makes videos about design, illustration, color theory, industry real talk and FAQ, fashion business, art supply hauls and reviews and she has all her videos organized by playlists. Zoe believes hard work and dedication is more important than “talent” when it comes to having a successful career.

Video syllabus

0:00 IRIDESCENT VS HOLOGRAPHIC
0:35 HOW IRIDESCENTS WORK & HOW TO CHOOSE COLORS
3:06 CHOOSING MEDIA
6:03 SHADOW AND HIGHLIGHT PLACEMENT
7:58 FIRST EXAMPLE
13:18 SECOND EXAMPLE
19:02 THIRD EXAMPLE: WET ON WET TECHNIQUE