Niki Pilkington is a Welsh
illustrator based in New York, who is currently back in London working for MTV. She studied GCSE, A
Level and Art Foundation in Wales, then received a first class honours degree in Fashion
Promotion and Illustration from
Ravensbourne, London.
Specialising
in trend inspired fashion portraits with great details; she got her inspirations
from people she sees every day, focusing on the clothes that they wear and also
places that she visits.
She also likes to
combine phrases, idioms, and quotes into her pieces to tell a story each time
she produce an artwork. She draws the
main illustration mostly made out of line drawings, first using pencil to
draft, which takes about a few hours, and going through it again with harder
lines, then add colour, prints and lastly, adding 3D elements so that her
artwork will stay fresh.
She uses pencils, felt-tip
fluorescent markers and pens.
Since 2011 she's been sponsored by Derwent pencils and she also manage
to draw for the covers of Derwent pencils’ pencil covers!
Her contemporary aesthetic adorns the walls of private collectors’
homes and galleries, and she also exhibits her artwork at local exhibition
centres to showcase her art work. She also had them up on pages of numerous
books and magazines with client list of TOPSHOP,
Ted Baker, Sir Paul McCartney & MTV.
She also sells her artwork online via her own online
shopping site, and also customized phone cases, pencil cases, pillow cases and
all, using her art pieces. She also sell post cards and tote bags. And frequently, she will have giveaways for
her loyal subscribers and customers!
In addition, she also opens workshop for kids to teach
them how to draw like her.
Niki takes in portraits requests from customers who
wished to have them drawn by her, but at a high price.
WHAT HAVE I LEARNT:
Not all illustrations have to be in 2D forms. Adding 3D
elements to it can actually help in the appearance and also the effect of the
drawing.
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