Fashion Illustration & Interviews With Illustrators Worldwide

 

 

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Sandra Jawad Fashion Illustrations Master Shading: She's One To Watch

Sandra Jawad Fashion Illustrations Sandra Jawad fashion illustrations“Seriously? Omgoodness. someone is going to test u for performance enhancing drugs. Ur gonna get banned from tour de france. This is ridiculous.”  (Lawrence Jones via Sandra Jawad’s FB page). Its hard not to have that reaction when viewing fashion illustrations from London based illustrator, Sandra Jawad.  Jawad’s skillful shading technique result in detailed compositions with enough depth to rival a photograph while [...]

 

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New York Fashion Week SS 2013: Illustrations Capture Moments Behind The Scenes

Mercedes Benz  New York fashion week SS 2013 was a cluster f*ck of organized chaos leading up to a runway adorned by today’s taste-makers of tomorrows trends, sitting, watching and noting the garments perfectly showcased by stick thin models as they strut down the runway, pose and fade into the background. Before each show hair and makeup circle each model as they wash, tug, dust, powder, straighten, curl, spray and [...]

 

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Inside The Artists Head With Fashion Illustrator and Designer Maria Mallol

I came across fashion illustrator, Maria Mallol while posting about the Mary Katrantzou competition (she made it to the top ten!).  Using pencil, watercolor, and gouache followed by a final digital edit, Mallol splashes color solely into the garments – creating a balance between the model and the clothing.  Her background is fashion oriented,  from the technical aspect of pattern making to the creative process of drawing ideas and seeing [...]

 

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Inside The Artists Head: Kornelia Debosz Talks Fashion Editorials, Laura Laine and Inspirations

Kornelia Debosz illustrates simple, clean beauty.  With pen and ink Debosz’ illustrations have elements of photorealism predominately executed with black white and shade of grey.  Color is scarcely used as a medium to communicate garments or accessory.  Focused more on the relationship between the model and her attire than the garment itself, Debosz captures the beauty of fashion editorials. A few days ago I connected with Polish fashion illustrator Kornelia [...]

 

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One To Watch: Annabelle King Shows Off Natural Talent

17 year old fashion student, Annabelle King creates fashion illustrations predominately with just a pen and paper. Drawing a literal inspiration from editorials King’s fashion illustrations have depth, emotion and realistic movement. In the limited collection of fashion illustrations that King has completed recently, her technique and style has become increasingly more precise.  She adds light dabs of watercolor to her garments, just to make them stand out, while capturing [...]

 

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The Art of Fashion Illustration: Pippa Mcmanus' Is On Fire!

You’ve seen her illustrations before.  If not here, you have seen them somewhere across the web.  Pippa Mcmanus  popularity as a fashion illustrator has been growing steadily over the past few years and shes showing no signs of slowing down.  She recently won the Mary Katrantzou fashion illustration contest, which landed her tickets to fashion labels show in London this month.  She has exhibition popping up left and right and [...]