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How to Add & Warp Patterned Fabrics in Adobe Photoshop

This a video with a guest lecturer Robin Shnyder who is an Adobe Illutsrator & Photoshop expert, teacher and author. She will talk about the process of adding fabric to a fashion illustration and make it look like it's wrapped around the body.
Length 17:10
Price Free of charge
Subject Fashion Design
Languages English
Video Transcripts English

About the video

This tutorial, taught by Robin Schneider, goes over how to create a pattern from a swatch of fabric, add it to a drawing, warp the pattern to follow the drape of the dress, and add shadows and highlights to create a beautiful finished fashion illustration in Adobe Photoshop.

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

Selection of Fabric Piece
Working with the Pattern on a Model Sketch
Adding the Shapes
Fabric Changing