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
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