Posts Tagged: fashion illustrator

by Caroline Brown, handbag designer for Rosetti Lei & Fung and Brandon Graham, WouldYouRockThis.com brand manager.

Join us for Fashion Drawing Session next month and get feedback on your portfolio.

Fashion Illustration As A Visual Merchandising Tool.
I stumbled across these fashion illustrations last week in the windows of The Plaza Boutique and Barami.

Silent James from http://silentjames.com/ spoke yesterday at FIT about knowing your audience. This is an excerpt from a lecture titled: Three Top Illustrators Share “How I Got My First Job.”

Studying fashion design and marketing at the American Intercontinental University in London, then living and working in cities like Beirut and Los Angeles as well as New York gives Lara Bly a uniquely cosmopolitan perspective on the business of fashion. She has held a supervisory position at Sacrosanct, a company based in London and Beirut. She is developing her own fashion line for women. Lara Bly and her husband share a studio in the Banana Factory, a Pennsylvania art space supporting local creativity. She shared some of her thoughts with PinkyShears about the fashion industry, aesthetics, and getting a business started, as well as her insights fabric sourcing.

Her experience working for others as well as starting her own line makes Lara Bly a great resource for beginning designers. Beginning to work on her own line, she remembers, called on skills she hadn’t used in a while. “It was a big change after having patternmakers and machinists working for me at Sacrosanct. It took a while to remember what I knew about sewing. I was rusty, but it came back quickly. It took me a while to transition away from Sacrosanct’s way of doing things,” she remembers. “I would call them up, and ask ‘could you get me in touch with those people who did the beading?’ or try to track down my old favorite machinist. It was like I was teaching myself all over again to do patterns.”

Fashion Illustration Internship for WouldYouRockThis.com

Fashion Illustrators and Authors Bill Donavan and David Downton

The Power of Line. by David Downton

These are a few of my illustrations about to be colored. I think I’m going to do a paisley print for the shirts in light browns, sand, and beige colors. The interesting thing you might miss is the layering. Under the shorts are knit leggings.

Wanted to share with you guys some fashion illustrations by Nathaniel “Nene L.A. Shiro” White.

I bought this really nice sketchbook last month and just wanted to share a page with you. The nice thing about this sketchbook is it has templates of a figure to help you draw. You can buy one of these at http://fashionary.org/

Today my cousin Erin helped me with a video for WouldYouRockThis.com

It’s great to have a book tailored to the subject of fashion illustration. Hats off to Julia for bringing together a collection of artists who take the time out to do what they do best and are willing to share their knowledge with others. Reading this inspired me to try new techniques and keep pushing my art.

My friend Julia, creator of DesignYourFashion.tumblr.com, asked me to give my opinion on the difference between a fashion illustration and a fashion sketch.

PinkyShears’ publisher, Brandon Graham, interviews fashion illustrator, Jennifer Lilya at her studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Have a look and give some feedback on Jennifer’s illustrations here on http://wouldyourockthis.com/vote/current/31/