5 Tips for Freelancing in Fashion
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2019
- This video is for 1. people who make custom clothes for private clients and 2. people who take on freelance fashion design and illustration projects, whether you do this on the side outside your day job or do this full time. I formatted this video as tips because these projects are too varied to squeeze into one process template. These tips are gleaned from years of experience taking on freelance projects. This video also includes how to figure out what to charge people!
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Most of the times I just hit play then continue my day, I listen to her like a pod cast, I love the content, I only watch when she’s showing something 🤗
Very imformative. I think I am a very good pattern maker and a sewer. I lecture pattern making. But I am really shy at promoting my self. I feel really weird talking about my products. I dont even post anything related to talking about my self. I havent even update my status. I want to do freelance work. I really love to make custom dresses. But it is so hard because I am not a social media person. So I dont know where to begin. Your vedio gave me really good tips. I gonna use them to build the business that I always wanted to do.
Good luck!
they way i think about it is its not personal its about your work. focus on that
@@stephaniegonzalez3477 I didnt understand? What do you mean?
@@shmwmlam3953 maybe she just want encourage you to focus and believe on your potential (?) . I know how you feel, but I'm the one with fashion illustration :) I don't know where to begin too
I am currently studying Computer Arts but after one year of being in uni i realised that my passion is fashion and always has been. I am good at drawing and drawing only, it is what im good at and i have tried all kinds of styles and mediums both traditional and digital. I just keep going back to drawing pretty girls in pretty outfits! :D I remember as a 6y/o or somewhere around that age, i used to tear up lace curtains and wrap them around my body to create different outfits and walk in front of my parents to give them a mini fashion show :D This year i got into reading fashion books and something in me just sparked. I feel like i have a direction in life again. I love drawing and digital illustration and I thought that video game design and character concept art would be what i would be most happy doing, but after just one year i realised that this is not the case..
So sorry for the long comment, my point is that you inspire me to parallel study fashion on the side of my degree and learn sewing and textiles and everything that comes with it. Thank you for your wonderful channel and that you are willing to be so consistent in posting and thinking of interesting things to talk about. You are wonderful!! 💜💜
Thank you! I'm happy you found my channel helpful and good luck with everything!
@@zoehongteaches Much luck to you as well! You are an amazing person and I wish you all the best things in life 💜
@adrianna Yoooo girl good luck on your journey!! Drop me your insta so I can follow whats going on with you! How insane is that we have had such similar experiences 😃😃
Of course I learned something new and idk how many times I say this but your illustrations are SOOO GOOOD!!
Thank you very much!
Perfect advice! True to the reality of freelance work. Bonus art candy!!!
Love your videos 💕
I’m learning a lot
Keep it up 👍🏽
been wanting a freelance video
I was mostly watching you do your experiments. Turned out pretty nice. 👍😀
Your tips and advice are sound ideas that make good sense.
Including pricing yourself and Hannah mule paper YES mind blown already in the first 2mins
Super helpful, thanks Zoe!
I love your aquarelle design👍😍😍
Great advice! I charge by the hour now but usually give my customers an estimated cost for my service in advance since I’ve been good at clocking my work. I’m going to start charging by service from now on, never thought about that 😄
Thank you I learn a lot
Very informative. I love you Zoe
Finally advice I can actually use!
The exact time I needed this video !!! Tysm
You're welcome!
Your work are so good and very informative. Good luck and keep it up
Yes yes !! I look forward to Sundays just to watch your videos thank you so much for creating amazing content ❤
You're welcome!
Thank you Zoe! I appreciate your tips!
You're welcome!
Really awesome video
Thank you for teaching well Zoe! You inspired me so I decided to fo arts again. ❤️😍
You're welcome!
I would say the bamboo paper was a success! Or that you are such a good painter that you could paint "Anything" even on a piece of cereal cardboard. Excellent watercolor. Good tips for any service business.
thanks for all the advice and inspiration...
You're welcome!
You are so good! Thank you!
You're welcome!
Great tips! I'm also loving these watercolour illustrations on bamboo paper.
Thanks!
Thank you for this video 🙏
You're welcome!
Thanks Zoe! I'm supper happy because I just got my first freelancing gig: Tech packs. This video is so appropriate for my current situation. You give me hope saying that I'll get faster. Have a great week!
Good luck with your gig!
@@zoehongteaches THANKS!
That sounds gerat :))
@@FASHIONINSIDERSCO Yeah!
Where do you find them? Any website?
Very informative. Thank you so much for all the great tips. I always struggle with calculating the cost.
You're welcome!
So much Thank You for all u do . Im a fashion student and sometimes i don’t understand all in class and there was no chance where to get to know again those info till i found you . So much thanks for this u really helped me out on my first year ❤️❤️❤️
You're welcome!
She should make some of her videos a podcast
Hey Zoe! Thank you very much for you immense work. I'm really grateful for all the tips. I have one more question in continuation. Do you have an advice where to search an info about contracts for freelance designers. Or it always comes from the company you collaborate with? Is it possible to do by myself or it always takes a lawyer?
Thank you.
P.S. Maybe you also have some info about contracts with wholesale buyers. That would be so useful to have your video about all the legal issues of fashion design process (based on your experience).
Thanks again.
Cool technique
Another good one Zoe. I may not have run across it yet if you have expanded into your own experiences. (You sure do have a great many videos, far more than even a holiday weekend binge. 😆)
If not, something to add to the list perhaps? I am very interested in hearing them, or any you are able to disguise or work arounds with private customers. 🍍
And yes I have watched your recent collaboration on the evening coat. 🙂
Hey Zoe! Please make a video on how to get online freelancing jobs for fashion designers.
Zoe... I don't know why I love your channel so much... But I'm just really glad i came across your videos... You ever see something a wish you were right thete helping that person or just to be around them.. Because of their awesomeness?.. That's You.. Lol. I'm not weird, I'm a Libra.. Lol but yeah!... You are in my top three UA-cam designers!... If you ever need garment samples (tops or skirts, whatever) I'll make it for you anytime!..
Thank you!
Tr.Zoe. Could you please explain about future wears?
Hi Zoe,
Thnk you for this informative video.
Would you make one about copyrights, mantionning your name as an author-creator etc, once, please? :)
No, I'm not an expert on that stuff and I don't make videos unless I know what I'm talking about.
Sigeveux says cheers
Thank you for this great info. I am hoping you can help me figure out how to handle this issue of working with multiple designers. If I am working with multiple designers and each of them wants exclusive rights to the patterns I design for them, how can I maintain exclusivity if I get asked to draft a similar design for another designer.
Legally, you change the design 10%. Ethically, I think you should aim for closer to 20-25% different. You don't want your clients to get upset that you're selling designs too similar to the one they have exclusive rights to. However, you should charge extra for exclusivity.
@@zoehongteaches Wise words! Thank you so much for your feedback. I am learning a lot!
So what if your work is 3D? I am still learning how to do 3D fashion art, but have a friend who is a wedding dress designer and wanted to know what I would charge to create her dresses in 3D for each bride to be able to see via AR. If she gives me the pattern I can create it in under an hour. Without, if there are just photos or her drawings, takes considerably longer. Few hours to a day or two. Don’t know how to charge for that. Also can create thread and fabric textures, different colors, can make a mannequin to put it on...could also animate it...suggestions?
Nothing is different. You charge different rates for "Pattern Provided" and "From Scratch" and all the things you can do are different services you can provide with different rates.
Zoe, did you consider uploading this to spotify/itunes/SoundCloud as a podcast? Especially for advice videos like this? I’d love that and you might reach more ppl and just use the same aufio maybe. I’ll support
A podcast is on my long term projects list! Book first, podcast next! :D
@@zoehongteaches omg I'm incredibly excited for both!!
Are those watercolors? Or some other kind of colors? Thanks!
yes they are water colors
If someone wants to become a freelance fashion illustratior is it important to have fashion designing degree?
no
Please the quality of the water colord
Colors
Can u give me some advices for a UA-cam channel
May I ask what is the Pencil you use to color the jean on the right and is that water that u blend it with?
It's a Derwent Inktense pencil in Indigo blended with water.
For anyone reading comments now, an app I recommend for helping track how much time/money a protect takes, use cosplanner :)
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Why is the bk guy rendered so flat with no dimensionality?
The studio lights wash out the shadows quite a bit. I think you can see the shading better in the scanned version I use in my social media posts.
@@zoehongteaches You only applied one layer of brown
Evans Cooper if you think that, then you didn’t finish watching the video.
@@zoehongteaches I saw it more clearly on Instagram. Thanks!
Your self at black man & woman white fashion ?? I don't tell .. 😗😗 "woman military us woman hair blonde " ! I Know ..