Hey y'all! Let me know if you like this sort of draw-and-discuss style video or if you'd prefer to see my face. I had a blast practicing drawing things I need to get better at! Please hit the THUMBS UP button if this video helped you!
Zoe Hong I really love to watching you illustrating, and really love to see your experience when you're taking about something and that's makes me focus and understand you more. So, for me I prefer to do it separately to be more focusing with what you doing or saying. Thanks a lot for all your videos, they are very useful for me 😊
Hello , yes I think you should do more of these videos and discuss topics like Higher degree like master degree or taking a job project or freelance in design these topics also about scholarships in fashion
Its been a month now I'm watching your videos. i know you received a lot of appreciation, so i won't bother to mention it again but this video enlighten me to decide carefully, i just recently applied for BTEC fashion and clothing at the college here in Birmingham ( vocational course in Uk). and i do think i made the right decision instead of going into a foundation degree to a university because its more cheaper and it will give me enough time to build my skills and knowledge in my preparing my portfolio. Thank You Zoe, you are a star!
This is a very much needed video in my life right now... I’ll be attending a technical fashion design school in New York and it’s affordable too. Thanks Zoe❤️
I love this video. When you do the videos where your just talking, its really easy for me to lose focus. I love watching you draw and hearing you talk about something else at the same time. Please do more videos like this.
Love this. You can practice things you need to do better. And so can everyone else,Taking inspiration from you, Vegging and watching if need motivation, or working on their own drawings while listening. Great stuff.
You made my fashion future look a bit more possible. Thank you for all the career stuff! I am studying Medicine but I really hate it. Hope one day i could start over everything in life.
Very good point on additional services, a friend of mine is a disability advisor for the local art school, she’s helped take notes, do paperwork etc Also for UK people there’s the complete university guide website as well and it has a separate art school section
Loved this video! I live in Australia and am currently going to uni for engineering (i just really love watching your videos i find them soothing, also i want to try designing and making my own clothes and doing some drawing). At my school we have this program called access and inclusion that helps students with any kind of disability from mental to physical :) we also have a doctor's office on campus with psychologists there too. I use them and they're so helpful. I didn't realise this wasn't a common thing until you mentioned it i thought all schools had it.
This was an amazing video, it inspired me to draw again while still being informed. But I also like it when you are talking to the camera and showing your amazing eyebrows lol... so maybe you should do both? Honestly lately I've been really stressed over which schools I should go after highschool and this made me feel better !
I was knitting while you drew, so we were basically pretend coworking through time and space. 🤣 I dig this style, A++ interesting, would watch again. 👍
Zoe thank you so much your videos are always very helpful :) i wanna go to a school in london but idk how to start as a international student and this helped me a lot :)
Dear Zoe, thank you as always it was really helpful. now could you please talk more about fashion competitions? do you find them helpful? and could you please talk abou some of them that are more important.. or have a better influence on your credit.. thank you!
I don't know a lot about specific ones. Many competitions require you to be sponsored through your school program. Cash prizes are definitely nice. They're nice to put on your resume, especially in the beginning when you don't have a lot of work experience. Can you be successful without them? Yes. Does winning competitions mean you're guaranteed a job? Unless that is literally the prize, no, there's no guarantee.
Love Your videos. They are always sooo helpful and entertaining at the same time!!! Whats your Opinion about private fashion schools? I'm not really sure about America but here in Germany we have a lot more private Schools that teach fashion (you still get a Bachlor of Arts in the end) and in general they seem so much better equiped and like they can teach you so much more than state schools. But I'm not sure if going to a private school could be a disadvantage later in life when your trying to find a job?
When people look at your resume in the US, I really don't think people think about public vs private schools. Most people don't even know which ones are public and which ones are private. Each school has a reputation of their own. I don't hear a lot of "oh, she went to a public school" when it comes to fashion schools. It's a school by school scenario. I went to a private school. Another thing, I know private and public school mean opposite things US vs UK. I don't know which version Germans use.
Hi zoey. I am at a point in my life where i need to start thinking about what schools to apply to so i appreciate it that you posted a video like this. If you have the time could you answer this question i have: You mentioned LA as being not one of the big four places but still a central place, would you consider miami to be one? (I live in florida and there are very few schools here and the ones that exist are in miami)
Hi @Zoehong you've probably answered this but... I've been debating school for a while I keep enrolling and dropping out, mainly bevause the only schools in my area are traditional schools not art schools and other things, blah blah. My question is how do you feel about the difference between learning fashion at a art school compared to a traditional school? I know you went to art school and you don't like to speak on things you don't know, but may be you can help me out.
i am going to do a fashion design course in a school, but i am very scared i chose the wrong school, and i am worried i am not prepared enough to enter into the course, as i still can't illustrate or even do certain seams, and fabric is another thing i am still ensure of. I regret nt going to a fashion college and doing courses for a couple hundred pounds, instead of spending 22,000 per year at school on student loans.
Hi Zoe This year i will graduate from my Science Economy Highschool and I decided that i should be going to a fashion school cause i love and have so much passion for it so I figured to study Fashion Desigb at Lasalle College here in Morocco to get my bachelor's degree and then i will go study abroad in the same school (Paris or Rome or Canada ) as it's available in many countries If you have any feedback on this school please let me know What do you think? Greetings Khalil
Love this, but sadly in my country there’s only one fashion school and it’s so expensive and I can’t afford it, also the fashion industry in my country sucks :(
Hi Zoe! I love your videos and i have to ask you: do you think i can become a fashion designer without knowing how to draw? I am really into fashion and I have a lot of ideas but i can’t put them on paper. I tried following your drawing videos and some others’ but no results.
>>do you think i can become a fashion designer without knowing how to draw? No, but you do NOT have to be the most amazing drawer ever. If you want an industry job, you need to be able to communicate your ideas and you absolutely need to learn how to draw flats in Adobe Illustrator. If you want to start your own company, I guess you could get away with not drawing but remember: for every skill you don't have, you have to hire someone to do it. Do you have the money for that? Have you tried sketching using templates?
When it comes to money, i can't afford going to school, i will have to get a student loan, and not knowing how to draw is the only reason I think i will not be studying fashion not only because of the pressure of the portfolio and the expectations of the professors, but also the employers who might turn their backs on me if i don't show them proper and solid sketches of my ideas. And about the templates, i most certainly will be buying yours from etsy but for now i just tried some from google images and i couldn't get the proportions right. And because of my crappy drawing skills i'm thinking about buying a sewing machine and materials and start doing my thing (which might be a lot harder than taking some basic, 5th grade drawing lessons).
Hey Zoe. I struggle with deciding if pursuing an MA degree is worth it when it comes to creative industries. My undergrad is in Studio Art/Photography but now I market study abroad programs....lol. I had considered an MA in fashion marketing/communication to aid transitioning into a different career path but do you think postgraduate work is even necessary to do so?
I would recommend you look up jobs you want to apply for and the listings will tell you the level of education required, as well as other prerequisites. Even if the listings are expired (but still pretty recent!), you can find the info you need. If you find that practically every job you're interested in requires a degree, I would look into that.
As an eastern European, American tuition fees are absolutely not affordable. My family is not poor at all but we could NEVER finance going to an American college.
Hey there! I am i dilema beetwen stuying abroad or in my county. I always dreamt of studyin in london but when i realised that i wouldnt se my family every month because of the ticket price i started questioning. I my country there is an art university in my city bet i never felt like staying here. I would like to hear your opinion or if you have any suggestion for me because i would really like to study in london but i am not sure if i am ready to leave my family and see them four times a year. By the way great video
Everyone has to leave their family at some point. Physically, not emotionally. Go to London, pursue your dreams as hard as you can. If you need to go back home, you'll at least know you tried your best, you don't have to ever think "I wonder if..." Good luck!
i was wondering of your opinion. I want to go to fashion college and hen fashion university (I'm in Canada). i was wondering if you think university is a crucial part of becoming a fashion designer. Thanks!.
@everart okelli Thanks for jumping in, your input was awesome, and I agree all around! I always encourage my viewers to have conversations each other too! I though Jesse was asking if I recommended they go to fashion school in general but I see now they were asking college vs uni. College and uni are used synonymously in the US.
Zoe Hong thankyou so much mam. Nift is national institute of fashion technology. In india this is no 1 college but they take entrance from the students and I watching your all videos these videos are helpful for my entrance exam. So God bless you mam 😗👌
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I don't think most art schools offer double major. I think you can do both but not at the same time, especially in the beginning when everything is new and you have to learn huge amounts of information very quickly. I would pick one to study first.
Brandin Foster for me as a fashion designer who graduated from a fine and applied arts, major of fashion.. I ended up as a fashion designer and doing nothing with arts (drawing, painting or any kind of arts that don't related to fashion). I did study all kind of arts before I specialized in textile and fashion design, but now I consider myself as only a fashion designer. I like painting, but I have no time for it, I spend all my working time improving my skills of fashion. Maybe some day I will do some painting, but I think it will be all referred to fashion too.
Do you have an online course? I would love to pay you for your knowledge. If it's on Udemy or $1,000 course as a personal coach, I'll get it. If not can you please recommend an online course please?
Hey zoe, my name is jabari I am from Trinidad and Tobago and I just finish my practitioners certificate in technical Theatre production for the University of the West Indies. I would like to study fashion design because there are no schools offering costume design in Trinidad and my goal is to become a lecturer. lecturing costume Construction for technical Theatre production. I have decided it to do my BFA in Fashion design at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN ACADEMY OF FASHION DESIGN (CAFD) and then my MFA in costume design at Yale. I would like to know if the courses offered will be beneficial internationally. Would love your help on this very much. I enjoy watching your videos as well as my sister who is 9.
Hey y'all! Let me know if you like this sort of draw-and-discuss style video or if you'd prefer to see my face. I had a blast practicing drawing things I need to get better at! Please hit the THUMBS UP button if this video helped you!
Zoe Hong I really love to watching you illustrating, and really love to see your experience when you're taking about something and that's makes me focus and understand you more. So, for me I prefer to do it separately to be more focusing with what you doing or saying. Thanks a lot for all your videos, they are very useful for me 😊
Zoe Hong love ur work keep it up
I love these videos!!!! I get my drawing pad and draw along with you (sometimes I don't even get pissed off and actually keep what I drew! LOL!)
Hello , yes I think you should do more of these videos and discuss topics like
Higher degree like master degree or taking a job project or freelance in design these topics also about scholarships in fashion
Honestly, both formats are great. The content is great to hear either way!
I really like these kinds of videos, something about it is really relaxing lol
Its been a month now I'm watching your videos. i know you received a lot of appreciation, so i won't bother to mention it again but this video enlighten me to decide carefully, i just recently applied for BTEC fashion and clothing at the college here in Birmingham ( vocational course in Uk). and i do think i made the right decision instead of going into a foundation degree to a university because its more cheaper and it will give me enough time to build my skills and knowledge in my preparing my portfolio. Thank You Zoe, you are a star!
Awesome! Good luck!
Hi, really enjoying ALL your free lessons and tutorials, especially when you show how to render specific fabrics and embellishments. Bravo!!!!
Love this type of video. I like that you give info as you show your drawing techniques.
This is a very much needed video in my life right now... I’ll be attending a technical fashion design school in New York and it’s affordable too. Thanks Zoe❤️
I’m planning on applying to the Fashion Institute of Technology, and I am an international student from the UK 🇬🇧.
Good luck!
Yep! Always love to watch you draw! 😍
I loved loved it aaaalotttt....💙💙
This inspired me to do my work again.
I love this video. When you do the videos where your just talking, its really easy for me to lose focus. I love watching you draw and hearing you talk about something else at the same time. Please do more videos like this.
Love this. You can practice things you need to do better. And so can everyone else,Taking inspiration from you, Vegging and watching if need motivation, or working on their own drawings while listening. Great stuff.
I love the time lapse with commentary
You made my fashion future look a bit more possible. Thank you for all the career stuff! I am studying Medicine but I really hate it. Hope one day i could start over everything in life.
There's no time like the present! Good luck!
Very good point on additional services, a friend of mine is a disability advisor for the local art school, she’s helped take notes, do paperwork etc
Also for UK people there’s the complete university guide website as well and it has a separate art school section
Loved this video! I live in Australia and am currently going to uni for engineering (i just really love watching your videos i find them soothing, also i want to try designing and making my own clothes and doing some drawing). At my school we have this program called access and inclusion that helps students with any kind of disability from mental to physical :) we also have a doctor's office on campus with psychologists there too. I use them and they're so helpful. I didn't realise this wasn't a common thing until you mentioned it i thought all schools had it.
Thank you. I needed a lot of help with picking a school..
Hello Zoe! I liked your draw-and-discuss style video! Found it very relaxing. No problem watching your face but this style kinda inspired me!
It's really so helpful Zoe, and I'm planning to study fashion technology after I finish my engineering
This was an amazing video, it inspired me to draw again while still being informed. But I also like it when you are talking to the camera and showing your amazing eyebrows lol... so maybe you should do both? Honestly lately I've been really stressed over which schools I should go after highschool and this made me feel better !
Thanks, I'll probably go back and forth. Good luck with your school stuff!
I really enjoy this style of lecture.
I was knitting while you drew, so we were basically pretend coworking through time and space. 🤣 I dig this style, A++ interesting, would watch again. 👍
Coworking through time and space! I love it! Let's do it again.
Zoe Hong anytime! 😉
Zoe thank you so much your videos are always very helpful :) i wanna go to a school in london but idk how to start as a international student and this helped me a lot :)
Love your videos! Keep up the great stuff
Love your videos 💕
I’m learning a lot
Keep it up 👍🏽
It's calming looking at the way you draw, interesting
love your video when you are drawing while talking FUNN!!!!!! to LISTEN." Byeeeeeee''
Luv this draw and discuss!
Hello from Ukraine, Zoe! Do you consider central Saint Martin as the best fashion school? regardless costs, city and so on?
Dear Zoe, thank you as always it was really helpful. now could you please talk more about fashion competitions? do you find them helpful? and could you please talk abou some of them that are more important.. or have a better influence on your credit.. thank you!
I don't know a lot about specific ones. Many competitions require you to be sponsored through your school program. Cash prizes are definitely nice. They're nice to put on your resume, especially in the beginning when you don't have a lot of work experience. Can you be successful without them? Yes. Does winning competitions mean you're guaranteed a job? Unless that is literally the prize, no, there's no guarantee.
Thank you so much! 💐
LOVE this video! Keep doing it
I wish I knew how to draw like this
Love Your videos. They are always sooo helpful and entertaining at the same time!!!
Whats your Opinion about private fashion schools? I'm not really sure about America but here in Germany we have a lot more private Schools that teach fashion (you still get a Bachlor of Arts in the end) and in general they seem so much better equiped and like they can teach you so much more than state schools. But I'm not sure if going to a private school could be a disadvantage later in life when your trying to find a job?
When people look at your resume in the US, I really don't think people think about public vs private schools. Most people don't even know which ones are public and which ones are private. Each school has a reputation of their own. I don't hear a lot of "oh, she went to a public school" when it comes to fashion schools. It's a school by school scenario. I went to a private school. Another thing, I know private and public school mean opposite things US vs UK. I don't know which version Germans use.
While I enjoy watching and listening, I tend to zone out of what you are saying to watch the drawings. haha
Hi zoey. I am at a point in my life where i need to start thinking about what schools to apply to so i appreciate it that you posted a video like this. If you have the time could you answer this question i have: You mentioned LA as being not one of the big four places but still a central place, would you consider miami to be one? (I live in florida and there are very few schools here and the ones that exist are in miami)
Go look up some job listings and see if there are a lot of companies hiring--not just design jobs but fashion companies hiring in general.
Hi @Zoehong you've probably answered this but... I've been debating school for a while I keep enrolling and dropping out, mainly bevause the only schools in my area are traditional schools not art schools and other things, blah blah. My question is how do you feel about the difference between learning fashion at a art school compared to a traditional school? I know you went to art school and you don't like to speak on things you don't know, but may be you can help me out.
i am going to do a fashion design course in a school, but i am very scared i chose the wrong school, and i am worried i am not prepared enough to enter into the course, as i still can't illustrate or even do certain seams, and fabric is another thing i am still ensure of. I regret nt going to a fashion college and doing courses for a couple hundred pounds, instead of spending 22,000 per year at school on student loans.
Hi Zoe
This year i will graduate from my Science Economy Highschool and I decided that i should be going to a fashion school cause i love and have so much passion for it so I figured to study Fashion Desigb at Lasalle College here in Morocco to get my bachelor's degree and then i will go study abroad in the same school (Paris or Rome or Canada ) as it's available in many countries
If you have any feedback on this school please let me know
What do you think?
Greetings
Khalil
Love this, but sadly in my country there’s only one fashion school and it’s so expensive and I can’t afford it, also the fashion industry in my country sucks :(
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Thank you!
Hi Zoe! I love your videos and i have to ask you: do you think i can become a fashion designer without knowing how to draw? I am really into fashion and I have a lot of ideas but i can’t put them on paper. I tried following your drawing videos and some others’ but no results.
>>do you think i can become a fashion designer without knowing how to draw?
No, but you do NOT have to be the most amazing drawer ever. If you want an industry job, you need to be able to communicate your ideas and you absolutely need to learn how to draw flats in Adobe Illustrator. If you want to start your own company, I guess you could get away with not drawing but remember: for every skill you don't have, you have to hire someone to do it. Do you have the money for that? Have you tried sketching using templates?
When it comes to money, i can't afford going to school, i will have to get a student loan, and not knowing how to draw is the only reason I think i will not be studying fashion not only because of the pressure of the portfolio and the expectations of the professors, but also the employers who might turn their backs on me if i don't show them proper and solid sketches of my ideas. And about the templates, i most certainly will be buying yours from etsy but for now i just tried some from google images and i couldn't get the proportions right. And because of my crappy drawing skills i'm thinking about buying a sewing machine and materials and start doing my thing (which might be a lot harder than taking some basic, 5th grade drawing lessons).
Hey Zoe, I was wondering. Have you ever experience art block or a creative block. I'm correctly experiencing it right now and it sucks. 😂😂😂😂😂
Everyone does and yes it sucks! I have a video on that in my Watch My Design playlist.
Hey Zoey, in what school did you studied your degree.
Hey Zoe. I struggle with deciding if pursuing an MA degree is worth it when it comes to creative industries. My undergrad is in Studio Art/Photography but now I market study abroad programs....lol. I had considered an MA in fashion marketing/communication to aid transitioning into a different career path but do you think postgraduate work is even necessary to do so?
I would recommend you look up jobs you want to apply for and the listings will tell you the level of education required, as well as other prerequisites. Even if the listings are expired (but still pretty recent!), you can find the info you need. If you find that practically every job you're interested in requires a degree, I would look into that.
As an eastern European, American tuition fees are absolutely not affordable. My family is not poor at all but we could NEVER finance going to an American college.
Hey there! I am i dilema beetwen stuying abroad or in my county. I always dreamt of studyin in london but when i realised that i wouldnt se my family every month because of the ticket price i started questioning. I my country there is an art university in my city bet i never felt like staying here. I would like to hear your opinion or if you have any suggestion for me because i would really like to study in london but i am not sure if i am ready to leave my family and see them four times a year. By the way great video
Everyone has to leave their family at some point. Physically, not emotionally. Go to London, pursue your dreams as hard as you can. If you need to go back home, you'll at least know you tried your best, you don't have to ever think "I wonder if..." Good luck!
Thank you so so much. Love you
i was wondering of your opinion. I want to go to fashion college and hen fashion university (I'm in Canada). i was wondering if you think university is a crucial part of becoming a fashion designer. Thanks!.
I recommend you watch my Do I Need School video in my Fashion School playlist.
oki, tyvm
Omg thanks so much! I never really thought about it but it seems so right! Thanks for your imput. Everything is welcome!
@everart okelli Thanks for jumping in, your input was awesome, and I agree all around! I always encourage my viewers to have conversations each other too! I though Jesse was asking if I recommended they go to fashion school in general but I see now they were asking college vs uni. College and uni are used synonymously in the US.
Thankyou mam. I am from india and I want to take admission in nift delhi. In these days I am prepairing for nift entrance exam
I hope you know about nift college.
No, I don't know Nift but good luck with your entrance exam!
Zoe Hong thankyou so much mam. Nift is national institute of fashion technology. In india this is no 1 college but they take entrance from the students and I watching your all videos these videos are helpful for my entrance exam. So God bless you mam 😗👌
Happy to help!
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I want to own my fashion lines and be a fine Arts painter. Can you double major? Or if not what advice can you give me please?
I don't think most art schools offer double major. I think you can do both but not at the same time, especially in the beginning when everything is new and you have to learn huge amounts of information very quickly. I would pick one to study first.
Zoe Hong thanks for answering my question
Brandin Foster for me as a fashion designer who graduated from a fine and applied arts, major of fashion.. I ended up as a fashion designer and doing nothing with arts (drawing, painting or any kind of arts that don't related to fashion). I did study all kind of arts before I specialized in textile and fashion design, but now I consider myself as only a fashion designer. I like painting, but I have no time for it, I spend all my working time improving my skills of fashion. Maybe some day I will do some painting, but I think it will be all referred to fashion too.
Abdurrahman Haidary do you own your fashion line?
Brandin Foster no! I don't, as Zoe said in this video, I'm still learning while I'm getting paid 😅
Do you have an online course? I would love to pay you for your knowledge. If it's on Udemy or $1,000 course as a personal coach, I'll get it. If not can you please recommend an online course please?
I do one-on-one skype consultation sessions. Please email me at teaching@zoehong.com.
Hey zoe, my name is jabari I am from Trinidad and Tobago and I just finish my practitioners certificate in technical Theatre production for the University of the West Indies. I would like to study fashion design because there are no schools offering costume design in Trinidad and my goal is to become a lecturer. lecturing costume Construction for technical Theatre production. I have decided it to do my BFA in Fashion design at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN ACADEMY OF FASHION DESIGN (CAFD) and then my MFA in costume design at Yale. I would like to know if the courses offered will be beneficial internationally. Would love your help on this very much. I enjoy watching your videos as well as my sister who is 9.
how I can contact you for some of my doubts email or something