Star Life Cycles image courtesy of NASA Goddard Flight
NASA has shared a huge gift with the world by making available 140,000 images, videos and audio files from about 60 different collections.
You can go crazy searching the image collection here.
Enjoy!!!
A short description of the course that caught my eye in the catalog reads as follows:
Students will learn beginning and intermediate illustration skills including line, proportion, shading, and color in order to advance their ability to communicate fashion designs.
After successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1: Draw the correct 9 head proportions of the fashion figure.
2: Create a personal style of fashion illustration.
3: Construct fashion design concepts through fashion illustration.
4: Integrate a variety of color media.
On day one of the Fashion Illustration (FASH 35a) at San Francisco City College, two teachers introduced themselves. The first half of the semester was taught by Lorraine Wilner and the second half by Paul Gallo.
The first days were spent getting familiar with the materials, the contour figures and front, side, back and 3/4 views.
Fashion drawing, by Mary Gow
And though I love to paint abstracts, I also enjoy drawing the human figure. Drop in classes for figure drawing weren’t doing it for me so I signed up for a fashion illustration course in the Fashion Dept. at City College of San Francisco. I loved it! This class provided the jump start I needed and since finishing the course I’ve kept up a regular drawing discipline.
I can’t emphasize enough the importance of following a hunch, a gut feeling, even if it makes no sense.
I created this layered image of an elevator after seeing the retrospective of one my heroes, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. A comprehensive collection of his work is on display Feb. 12-June 18, 2017 at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art.
“Elevated,” photo composite by Mary Gow