Fashion Illustrator 7- Sandra Suy

Sandra Suy, 37, born in Barcelona, is a Spanish fashion illustrator, who studied fashion design and art at La Llotja, is now working with management agencies in London and Milan.

For her work, she’s inspired by the prime fashion illustration as it shows the elegant and reflects timeless beauty, and also searches the web, which includes fashion and decoration blogs, and fashion magazines to get ideas. She also get inspirations from her surroundings, she does not have a particular place or time she gets her ideas as she feels that her ideas just come and go. She uses manual drawings focusing on line work to define the features of women fluidly and romantically, and also software to create the background of her art piece. I also realized that her art works are sharp and minimalist. She only focuses on two points of her work which are facial features and hair, or the facial features and the outfit.

Her client list includes some of the big names like Harper’s Bazaar, Martha Stewart Weddings, Elle, L'Oreal, Triumph and Zara.

“Don’t stop trying, looking for your own style, working hard, and showing your art.”- Sandra Suy via www.fashionarium.com interview

WHAT HAVE I LEARNT:

To keep on practice
Find my own unique style
Be different from people

Credits:

http://www.fashionarium.com/post/265013454/living-from-my-art-is-my-greatest-success
http://sandrasuy.com/

Fashion Illustrator 6- David Downton

David Downton, 55 born in Kent England is a renowned fashion illustrator who started his illustration career by illustrating fictions, cook books and sometimes, fashion as a commercial illustrator. He studied the foundation of fashion illustration in Canterbury and graduated in Wolverhampton with a BA Hons in Illustration/graphics.

He was approached by Financial Times to draw at the 1996 Paris couture shows in July and since then, he became famous for his illustrations as his drawings has been pushlished worldwide. He also wrote his first journal of Fashion Illustration called Pourquoi Pas? in 2007, and followed by Master Of Fashion Illustration, and was a visiting professor of London College of Fashion.

He love to use rotring ink as he said that he likes how rich the black ink is and has a velvety violet cast to it. He also uses gouache, watercolor, oil stick and sometimes acrylic depending on his mood or what is he trying to convey the viewers about.

Some of his client list includes Lacroix, Tiffany & Co, Top shop, Gaultier, Chanel, Dior, L’Oreal, Vogue, Marks & Spencer, Harper’s Bazaar, V magazine, Valentino & Victoria&Albert Museum. He also works on series of portraits of Iman, Dita Von Teese, Elizabeth Taylor and Paloma Picasso.

 

“My advice would be simple; keep drawing. You can’t be too good at it. And when you’re not drawing, keep looking, training your eye. Be professional. Fashion illustration is a profession, as well as a passion.Most of all, enjoy it! You have the whole world at your fingertips.” -David Downton via Amelia’s Magazine

WHAT HAVE I LEARNT:

To always draw! Practice makes perfect! Even if we can’t draw, we should pick up the techniques by looking and analyzing the art work of the artist and learn from it!

CREDITS:

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/an-interview-with-legendary-fashion-illustrator-david-downton/2010/11/02/

Fashion Illustrator 5- Petra Dufkova

Petra Dufkova, born in Czech Republic, is currently a full time freelance fashion illustrator representing Illustration Limited since 2008, designer and stylist in Germany.

 She studied art at a technical school for applied arts to learn about graphic painting and graduated from International Fashion School Esmond in Germany.

She participated in a lot of fashion and art related projects and contests and once won a Best Illustration Award at China Fashion Week with her Pret-A-Porte collection. She also collaborates with fashion designers like Iben Hoej and Marcel Ostertag to create lookbooks illustrations. She also have illustrates for clients like Elle Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Vanity Fair.

Her illustrations mainly focus on the female forms and are of traditional painting method like using inks, acrylic and watercolor with a modern twist to it. From her painting, I realized that she uses a lot of darker shades compared to the other illustrators and her watercolor and ink techniques are very well executed as she uses the darker tone to draw the lines of her female mode which creates an amazing toning!  She will first draw on a paper and then scan it into the computer to fix on the graphic and upload it. She gets her inspirations from fashion shows, magazines, books, exhibitions, and people on the streets and the famous icons in the fashion world.

WHAT HAVE I LEARNT:

From her, I have learnt to not be afraid to use dark colors and to just draw straight on the paper itself without sketching  and also to tone better with using the darker shade of a color.

CREDITS:
http://www.fashion156.com/daily-blog/petra-dufkova/
http://www.museandthemoon.com/pages/petra-dufkova