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. 

Antonio Lopez

                                Antonio Lopez  (February 11, 1943 – March 17, 1987)

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez. From left : Eija Vehka Aho, Juan Ramos, Jacques de Bascher, Karl Lagerfeld.

           Antonio Lopez was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico. When he was seven years old, his family moved to New York . His parents, Maria Luisa Cruz and Francisco Lopez influenced him to apply his artistic talents to fashion. He attended the High School Of Art and Design and the Fashion Institute Of Technology. While attending the F.I.T. He began an internship at Women's Wear Daily, which led to him leaving school and working at the publication. Shortly afterward he left for a position at the New York Times.

          Lopez worked in close collaboration with Juan Eugene Ramos. He also did illustrations of fashion designs by Charles James

           In 1969 he moved to Paris along with Ramos and was an associate of Karl Lagerfeld and he stayed there until the mid 1970s.  

 

                    Antonio Lopez is the Picasso of fashion illustration. He capture the pulse of style from the 60s to the 80s , and is still revered as the most inspiring illustrator by today practitioners. He worked with a variety of materials including pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, watercolor and polaroid film. His work appeared frequently in Vogue, Harper's bazzar. Elle 

  Antonio Lopez

 Jerry Hall 

    Italian Vogue 1979 

          From his illustrations above, you could see the light is coming from the left, which made the left hand of the lady faded, and simple lines and strokes could allow viewer to have a three dimensional view of the drawing. Thin and thick lines allow the figure to be more realistic and surreal.

                                                    Antonio Lopez 

                                                      Fashion Girl 

                  Antonio uses watercolor in this painting as you could see the light and bright colors in the painting. According to my research, many people that says that watercolor art is a very powerful way to express your feelings . Even though i hate water colors,as i often destroy the drawings i drew when applying colors on it.  I felt that Antonio used this painting to express his feelings as women are becoming more fashionable and stylish.

Katharine Asher

     katharine Asher an fashion illustrator,She was brought up on a farm in Dartmoor. She uses creative play to fill the social void and now she make a living from her favourite past time. She went through various design courses such as Diploma in Graphic Design ; Torbay College of Art & Design, LSIAD in illustration ; Harrow College of Art / London , BA hons degree in Fine Art ; UWE Bristol - specialising in sculpture.

      She learns so many different type of techniques from various different art courses, something that i should do too , exploring and learning different types of techniques that i could see and create in my daily life.

     Here are some of her illustrations.She uses a traditional drawing style such as Conceptual, line, line with color,Concept Art and Vector. She have worked as a freelance within illustration and designing line for many years, specialising in figurative work .
     For a fashion designer like me, i should move towards the path she is going too , As figurative work plays an important part for me to create emotions and the elegance of the clothes that i am going to design in the future. The technique from Harrow College of Art allows her to think three dimensions and a thorough understanding of anatomy and movement. This prove to be her backbone of her skill base, enabling her to attract wide variety of commercial source.


     From her work above. you could see she only uses simple colors and strokes to create the tones , three dimensional structure and the silhouette of the figures, it gives the viewers such as me, a soft and comfy feeling . I hope that i can apply those techniques in my illustration work.

   Creating simple lines and stroke allows viewers to determine where the lighting is coming from and she does not need to complete the figure to show its completed, it allows the viewer like me to complete it myself by thinking.
  You could obviously see the lighting is coming from the right as the left part of her face is darker because of the shadow.

The realistic shading and detail against the fun
juicy water color light strokes express a real heart-warming quality. A beautiful example of the elegant movement of the works the paintbrush.








  All this techniques and skills i could apply it in my next illustration lesson too . =)

-delvin lim