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 .