Fashion Illustrators
January 4, 2010 chloep
For Contextual Studies over the Christmas holidays we have had to research two Illustrators and prepare a presentation and handout about them. We had to pick one off a list of historical illustrators and we were free to choose another contemporary illustrator of our own choice. Off the list I chose Christian Berard, a French illustrator, artist and designer of the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s. I choose him as he had a free drawing style and showed the human figure in a sophisticated way and also as he worked closely to famous designers such as Christian Dior, Coco Channel and Nina Ricci and so I thought it would be interesting to see how he portrayed their designs.
The contemporary illustrator I chose was Lovisa Burfitt, a Swedish illustrator and fashion designer. Her illustrations make a strong impact and are bold and unique in the way she adds media. She uses splashes of inks, felt tip pens and crayons in bold colours – only adding to part of the garment to create a bold impression of her illustrations. I have studied her technique in my fashion drawing and illustration technical notebook too and tried to add some of her style to my drawings.
This research has inspired me to be more creative and experimental with my drawing and style and to be more confident in using different media.
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1. Igor Lukyanov&hellip | January 13, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Cool! Oh, I hope one day people will make researches on the basis of my illustrations. Please, visit my fashion illustrator’s blog and let me know if my fashion illustrations any good http://illustrator4fashion.wordpress.com
I would appreciate your expert opinion.