Gary Fernandez

Gary Fernandez 

Detail in simplicity is a theme that Gary Fernández has been perfecting throughout his illustration career. His perfectly rhythmic and orchestrated compositions work almost like a ballet, where all the characters are acrobats, dancers or gymnasts on a big stage. There is also an intriguing darkness in his characters that catches the viewer's attention. Sometimes his illustrations tell a story, sometimes it has a way of enabling you to imagine one. "My work is about telling the same in a new way, in a kind of very personal way". I love how he did all his illustration , putting a story behind them , i feel that every illustration or art work should have a story behind it, because it means something important to the artist or designer, thus, making it more priceless too . 

Below are some of his illustrations. 

 I love the idea of fading the figure hair in the direction of leading it to notice the house behind. Every illustration of his, tell many different type of stories, everyone had different view of his illustration . One day , i'll be a great illustrator and a great artist like him . 

Every week when i am writing a blog , i learn different techniques, and today, the technique i learned is creating a story behind every one of my own illustrations, because every one of them does not come easy . Such as, the inspiration and feeling that came into my mind on that precious golden moment. 

I love the way how he made everything in his illustrations meaningful, every single one of them meant something and it allows you to ask yourself why is it drawn that way. His illustration is never boring , never dead and flat because it is always alive and meaningful. Thus keeping the viewers and buyers keen for everyone of his illustration showcase. 

Masha Karpushina

Masha Karpushina 

Masha is a Moscow born, London raised freelance illustrator.The visual world she creates is dictated by observation of the real and the surreal. She is driven by the power of nature, the beauty within man and beast, traditions of past generations and the essence of love. After taking time out from having her second son she is currently involved in several personal and commercial projects. All images are hand drawn and later reworked in Photoshop.

Masha graduated from LCC (London, UK) with a BA (Hons) in Illustration for Graphic 
Design. In 2006 she entered the noisefestival.com competition where she became Paul Insect's choice for Illustration.

At the age of 30, inspired by her husband and a friend she began to run. So far it has 
dramatically changed her perspective on life for the better.  


Below are some of her illustrations, although most of her illustration are black and 
white, most of her illustrations are drawn from the vast colors of the world around her. 

The different strokes and tones she uses creates and allow us focus on what she wanted us to focus on, in such, from the illustration on the left, we focus on the darkest area first before moving the the body of the female figure than slowly noticing the male figure hugging her. 

It is almost like a collage of different texture created from the tone, you could almost feel the texture from her illustration above both smooth and rough, i could use this technique when illustrating the clothing i am designing, such as the texture of different materials can be drawn and illustrate by this technique.

This illustration above was designed for ALL SAINT. 

Her clients are :

Vodafone, Mercedes, EMI, Armada Skis, All Saints, American Eagle Outfitters, Soho House Magazine, Lascivious, Adventure Ecology, RCMM, Philippe Parreno

Diana kuksa (nesypova)

Diana kuksa (Nesypova)

Diana kuksa (Nesypova) lived in Moscow, Russian Federation. She is a painter, illustrator and a designer. I am posting an article on her because she is the one to watch , her copic marker rendering is simply amazing . The tones, the backgrounds and most importantly the strokes and the techniques. Below are some of her illustrations. 

These illustrations are inspired by MIU MIU S/S 2014 collection. The compositions are great and I love how Diana uses goldfish, jelly fish, and the cat prints to be the backgrounds. To me, the general vibe of these illustrations is very whimsical and at some point, the girls are a bit mysterious.

I love how she compose her background, she did not put all the gold fish at the back of her illustration, she created a overlapping over it . 

In this illustration above, it may seem easy but it is quite tedious , firstly she sketches the figure with pencil, tracing the fine line with 0.1-0.5mm micron pen , and lastly using copic marker to render it . All this requires a lot of time. 

I hope that you guys could look her up, because she is really a good illustrator and a painter, all of her works are amazing and furthermore, she is a very nice and friendly person, i've talk to her over the social network before and she always give tips on how to improve myself and my illustration . 

In courtesy of Diana Kuksa

Petra Dufkova

Petra Dufkova

Czechoslovakian born Petra Dufkova is a freelance fashion illustrator 

and designer who now lives and works in Germany (well, some sites say she live in Germany.

 She showed promise almost immediately, winning a 'Best Illustration Award'

 at China Fashion week while still a student at the International Fashion School Esmond.

There isn't a lot of information surrounding her work ethics/life/inspiration,

 which is frustrating as she's such a talented artist.

 I'm taking this chance to help to promote her to the viewers of my weekly illustrator blog

 and hope that you guys could check out on her.

 
What I love about her technique is that her lines are so perfected,

 almost as if they had been created using a program. 

This makes her work look so crisp and modern, 

which is exactly why her main focus is on the edgy world of fashion illustration. 

Here are some of her illustrations. 

I love her technique so much, using water color and smudging some of the area to make the illustration came to live. Giving it texture and tones. 

In order to bring out the different tones of the facial features, time and experience is needed, one cannot do it without learning or the proportion and the perspective of the human face. 

She does collage too. Using a darker color. She could create effect such as the illustration above, making it look more interesting and surreal , its a technique i am exploring now too. Which is not easy because any mistake you done using the darker color , it is very difficult to tap away using a wet tissue paper.

delvin lim han wu , F13FD0304. 

Katie Rodgers

Katie Rodgers

Boston-based Katie Rodgers is one of my favorite illustrators. I first came across her in one of my classmates Instagram and I’ve been a regular visitor to her website Paperfashion ever since. I love how Katie chooses an image usually from a fashion magazine or blog and then illustrates it in her own unique style in such as a few simple strokes could create a perspective of a dress or gown. 

Katie has been on the receiving end of a number of enviable commissions of late – most recently she worked with Coach for New York’s Fashion’s Night Out where she appeared in store and illustrated a number of handbags for a line of eager customers. 

dream closet March 14 2014

I love how the way she creates the lighting in her illustration, such as the white space she gave in her illustration and the different variety of tones and color in her design. 

dream closet March 2014

I feel that this is one of her best sentence she said 'I was never the top student in college, but i had a passion for illustrating' 

I agree with what she says because you dun have to be the best or the top student in life to follow your dreams and do what ever you love to do, if you have that passion, anything is possible , dun give up . 

dream closet March 2014

I love how she matches the color in the series of her dress illustrations. She uses 3d objects to make her illustration surreal too, which makes her design interesting and unique . 

Laura Laine

                                                   Laura Laine

Laura laine is an amazingly talented fashion illustrator. She has studied fashion design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, with a focus on fashion illustration. After completing her studies she has been working full-time as a freelace illustrator. Her clients include Zara, Tommy Hilfiger, H&M, Iben Hoej, Daniel Palillo, The New York Times Magazine, Elle Girl, The Guardian, and Páp Magazine.

Her predominantly black and white illustrations are hauntingly beautiful and delicate, but they sometimes have a rather dark or even eccentric, burtonesque feel to them. One of the main characteristics of her drawings is the incredibly fine and detailed line work, which manages to suggest a great variety of textures (fur, silk, wool, leather etc.). Further, there is a certain motion quality to her illustrations which is conveyed by the gracefully twisted body postures and the splendidly flowing long hair of her characters.

The above (apparently mirrored) illustration featuring two young women each holding a fox is entitled “kitsune” (Japanese for “fox”)

I really love the way how she creates the hair for every illustrations, the way each and every illustration move and bends is simply amazing . The refine line work of every strokes creates different tone and lighting to make the figure alive. 

                                                    This work above was illustrated by her for GIVENCHY. 

"Kitsune Noir" by laura laine. 

The Kitsune (Japanese for fox) has a long and fascinating history in Japanese culture. They are particulary well- known for shape-shifting into form of exquisitely beautiful women, especially with a narrow face with close-set eyes, thin eyebrows, and high cheekbones which make them look stunning to attract guys attention. 

The way she illustrates her design using the characteristic of the Kitsune is amazing , in such all of the characteristic of the Kitsune is perfectly apply into her work and every illustration, even though is a reflection, is totally different in every way.

                       Joe Eula

Joe Eula was born in Norwalk,Ct, USA, around 1928

He began his career in the late 1940's, covering the fashion and social events with Eugenia Sheppard for the Herald Tribune. He then went to London and worked with Ernestine Carter doing the same for the Sunday Times. He also created eye-catching posters for Broadway shows and portraits for many celebrities, including Miles Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Diana Vreeland and later the Supremes and Liza Minelli. 
He says "I was considered the fastest pencil in the field, a mannequin need only do her turn down the catwalk at a fashion show, and voila - an illustration." His admirers rightly believe that Eula's dynamic impressionistic watercolours capture the essence of a designer's collection far more effectively than the standard catwalk photographs. 
Returning to America in the 1960's, he shared a studio with photographer Milton Greene, collaborating on covers, news and fashion stories for Life Magazine. Their partnership ended in 1968, after which Eula designed sets and costumes for the New York City Ballet, which was under the direction of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. 
He also worked very extensively with the designer Halston for many years. 
In the 70's, he diversified into television, directing "fashion specials" for movie stars such as Lauren Bacall and Candice Bergen. He won a Tony award for his work on the Broadway production of "Private Lives" in 1968. 
Joe contributed a great many illustrations for American Vogue. 
Later in the 1970's, he assisted Diana Vreeland, who was appointed head of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York in 1971. 
In 1979, Joe Eula signed an exclusive contract with Italian and French Harper's Bazaar, for fashion illustrations. 
In the 1980's, he handled the fashion illustration for such houses as Missoni Knitwear, Chanel, Givenchy, Versace, Karl Lagerfeld, Yves St. Laurent and many others. When he is reporting on international fashion shows, Eula manages with a few rapid strokes of his paintbrush, to reproduce the line, colour and cut of an outfit in the short time that it takes for a model to parade down the catwalk. 
Another of Joe's activities for some time, has been the cover designs, artworks and illustrations for music CD albums for such artistes as Liza Minelli and many others. 
Joe Eula, is a familiar figure at the international collections, frenziedly sketching as the models saunter down the catwalk. His is still the fastest pencil at the shows. 
Joe Eula's tribute to Yves St. Laurent in March 2002, on the great French designer's retirement, was published in the magazine of the Sunday New York Times in March 2002. Joe was there for YSL's first show for Dior in the early 1950's and he was there for YSL's last show in 2002. He has been drawing fashion for 55 years.

                      Ilustration by Joe Eula, Mr Eula 2004. Rendering of a Moschino coat with pom pom . 

I really love how he illustrates and create something or i must say, bringing something to life, his illustrations are way more better than photographers that are trying to capture the essence of the designers collection. A few simple thick or thin brush strokes allows us to know the way the model is moving and where the light is coming from.

Joe Eula's illstration

This is a illustration of Halston fitting Lauren Bacall in a long cashmere dress in 1973. 

I really love how he creates the reflection of Lauren Bacall , the perspective is perfect, even though this illustration is created from a marker, you can see the type of strokes he is applying , thicker, thinner, to show the differences of the live figure and the one that is reflected , simply amazing.