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. 

Roger Duncan

 Rodger Duncan, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA

Rodger Duncan was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA, and studied fine art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts. He received his masters degree after a year of studying painting in Florence, Italy. 

The artists he most admired were Picasso and Matisse, for their sense of colour and shape. 

His first commissions were advertisements for department stores and he later worked for designers Calvin Klein, Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Stephen Jones, Patrick Kelly, Carolina Herrara and Anne Klein. 

He was a young American illustrator, who worked at lightning speed and always with a live model. Said the artist "the model is the drawing, I am attracted to fashion illustration as a form of personal expression, interpreting the mood of the model according to what she is wearing. She is a young, active woman, her gestures and movements inspire me and because I work so fast she can always be caught in motion." 

There was a shape and feeling in Duncan's dynamic brushstrokes and glowing gouache colours, which, coupled with his ability to capture a likeness in just a few lines, were much appreciated by American Vogue. They regularly commissioned from him both fashion drawings and portraits of elegantly dressed socialites. 

He regularly contributed to Harpers Bazaar, the New Yorker magazine and American Vogue during the 1980's. 

The outstanding characteristic of Duncan's work was his use of blocks of high-voltage colour. His figures are free and easy, yet still sophisticated and with an undercurrent of energy concealed beneath a deceptively relaxed poise. 

He died an untimely death in the late 80's.

There was a shape and feeling in Duncan's dynamic brushstrokes and glowing gouache colors,which coupled with his ability to capture a likeness in just a few lines, all his works were much appreciated by American Vogue. They regularly commissioned from him both fashion drawings and portraits of elegantly dressed socialites.

Ponto de Econtro : Agosto 2010             

His first commisions were advertisements for department stores and he later worked for designers Calvin Klein, Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Stephen Jones, Patrick Kelly, Carolina Herrara and Anna klein.