Fashion Illustration research for Major Project

What is fashion illustration?

It is the way of capturing how clothing looks on the model, creating concepts of garments that will be created in the future and overall visualization of apparel created with the use of various art styles. It is used by the fashion brands for the marketing purposes as well as magazines for their covers and brand's archives. It was a really popular medium in the fashion world before the photography was invented and has partially replaced it. In the opposite to the photography, fashion illustration is meant to represent artist's point of view and interpretation of what they see, which results in many different styles being used by various artist to express their vision in unique for them aesthetic. 

Here are some of the most known fashion illustrators from the past:

Paul Iribe (1883-1935)

Carl Erickson (1891-1958)

Rene Grau (1909-2004)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Antonio Lopez (1943-1987)

Lauren Mortimer

Here is couple of illustrations of the artist that I found and I think that my style is somehow similar to hers. She uses a lot of shading and draws characters pretty realistically.

Lauren Mortimer's Portfolio

Lauren Mortimer's Portfolio

Lauren Mortimer's Portfolio

Different styles that can be used for fashion illustration.

When drawing illustration for fashion house or magazine, there is various approaches we can take to create it. Amount of details we place in our drawing, different shading techniques, art medium we can use etc. Here is just couple of fashion illustrations styles that differ from each other drastically and represents artist's different approach to the topic:

Painted Fashion Illustration

Child like Fashion Illustration

Alcohol marker Fashion Illustration

Sketchy/ (effortless) Fashion Illustration with colour

Very artistic/ imaginary Fashion Illustration

3D Fashion Illustration

Sources:

https://www.illustrationx.com/artists/LaurenMortimer

https://www.who.com.au/famous-fashion-illustrators

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