Fashion Illustration & Interviews With Illustrators Worldwide

 

 

Fashion Through Watercolor by Artist Cate Parr

Originally from England and currently residing in Los Angeles, California, Cate Parr has a style of her own in Illustration. Her vivid watercolor paintings have an enormous reflection on fashion, as that is where she gets most of her ideas and visions, along with music and cinema. Because of her bright and vivid colors mixed with large amounts of white negative space, she could be a modern day reminder of [...]

 

Soft and Detailed: Illustrations by Kelly Smith

When I first discovered Kelly Smith, Australian fashion illustrator and blogger, she had just graduated from the Tasmanian School of Art in Australia and was a phenomenal freelance artist. Continuing to follow her blog, Birdy and Me, I have watched her evolve into an extremely sought after illustrator in the Australian fashion scene with her works also featured in various fashion labels around the UK. With her precise portrait style [...]

 

Olka Osadzinska Illustrates GQ's Best New Menswear Designers 2012 for Highsnobiety

It has been so much fun watching the ways in which menswear has evolved in the more recent years.  And the menswear fashion train isn’t stopping any time soon, if anything there are more designers, with new ideas ready to showcase their talents.  Olka Osadzinska was recently asked to create illustrations for Highsnobiety, showcasing the nominees for GQ’s Best Menswear Designer of America. This list consists of brands whose focus [...]

 

Hiroshi Tanabe Illustrations for Stussy Spring/Summer 2012

I have been a big fan of Japan born illustrator,  Hiroshi Tanabe for a while now.  His ability to use clean, subtle lines and create a seemingly simple composition that tells a complete story really gets me going.  Recently, Tanabe became the latest guest artist to collaborate with Stussy. “Though constantly evolving, his works maintain a sense of  modernity unparalleled in fashion and beauty illustration today.  His illustrations have appeared [...]

 

Leandro Dário: Illustrations of S/S 2012 Paris Fashion Week

I recently stumbled upon the Behance portfolio of Brazilian based illustrator Leandro Dário who took to his pen and paper and developed characters based on the clothes seen during Spring/Summer 2012 Paris Fashion Week.  Originally created for the 3rd edition of BRRUNzine (BRRUN.com ), “The scenario is not the Grand Palais Hotel but the urban designs of Jean Dubuffet.” (Leandro Dário) The models drawn in simple black and white outlines [...]

 

Disney Characters Look Like My Friends: Photo Manipulation by Jirka Väätäinen

Lets get one thing clear, “it’s not Jerk-a. It’s Yirka” and he’s Finnish, an obvious design enthusiast, current graphic design student, and imagines Disney characters as if they were people of the real world. On a subconscious level I think we all want to believe that our favorite Disney characters are real, that they live among us, or maybe in some parallel universe.  That would explain the growing popularity of [...]