Exaggerated fashion illustrator-the hottest fashion illustrator in the contemporary era! How was it made?

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The works of HelenDownie, a popular fashion illustrator

As a veteran visual communication medium, fashion illustration has not stopped developing in the new era, but also derived many new expressions with different styles. How many of the most popular and eye-catching fashion illustrators and their works do you know?

the golden age of fashion illustration

In the early days, the cooperation between fashion illustration and fashion magazines helped it enter a heyday. At that time, magazines from the cover to the inside page almost without exception needed to use illustrations to make pictures. At that time, readers received fashion, art, taste and other information from exquisite illustrations. It can be said that fashion magazines and fashion illustrations at that time were mutually successful.

Harper'sBazaar magazine cover

Collision between fashion illustrations and fashion brands

In the digital age, photography has become the main source of visual communication for magazine publications. Although the magazine era with fashion illustration as the main propaganda media has ended, the fashion illustration industry has not fallen asleep, but has been developing and evolving in a new direction.

The cooperation between fashion illustration and fashion brand is the most successful new road discovered at present. As the most topical brand nowadays, Gucci often searches for some popular illustrators in social media for cooperation.

The following colorful and poetic works are all created by illustrator HelenDownie. It is worth mentioning that this highly professional illustrator is actually a housewife with a non-professional background. Her legendary experience and her paintings became popular on the Internet at the same time. In addition, her painting style is surprisingly similar to the new aesthetic concept advocated by Gucci, which makes the brand creative director take a fancy to her works at a glance and launch a series of in-depth cooperation.

HelenDownie's works

Although she is already a mother, her unconstrained style works always reveal a little girlish innocence. Especially the pair of innocent big eyes in the painting characters are strange and full of childlike interest.

HelenDownie's works

However, this is not the first time Gucci has cooperated with a fashion illustrator. Earlier, the brand also invited another illustrator, AlexMerry, to have a more "artistic" collaboration.

From new york to London, Milan to Shanghai, all cities with art walls were occupied by Alex's creative fashion illustrations almost overnight. It is rare for such a giant fashion illustration to be presented in this way, so when the picture of the artistic wall was released, it immediately caused a stir on the Internet.

AlexMerry's works

In addition, Gucci also makes and sells products in illustration works, so that all consumers who are excited about it can find and own these products. They turned these fantastic ideal products into reality. On the other hand, viewers can see from these romantic fashion illustrations that the style of fashion illustrations is no longer single.

AlexMerry's works

When it comes to cross-border cooperation between fashion illustrations and brands, Prada has to be mentioned. In the 218 men's spring and summer series show, the brand invited illustrator JamesJean to cooperate for the second time, which shows the degree of attention of his works.

works by JamesJean and Oliver Schrauuwen

This time, James Jean and Belgian graffiti artist Oliver Schrauuwen jointly created illustrations of the show space. The viewer looks at these pictures, just like watching a page of funny comic books on the spot.

At the same time, the author specially produced an illustrated publicity video with the same style for Prada. James's cool illustration style, combined with Prada's futuristic fashion style, complements each other.

JamesJean works

In the same year, in Prada's women's show, the brand also chose to join hands with fashion illustrators. Eight female illustrators were invited to this collaboration: StellarLeuna, TrinaRobbins, BrigidElva, JoelleJones, GiulianaMaldini, NatsumeOno, EmmaRíos and FionaStaples.

in addition to creating wall works in the show space, they also perfectly integrated illustration works into the new season's fashion collection. Their comic style works not only inject vitality into fashion, but also increase the possibility of stylization of fashion illustrations.

Today, fashion illustrations are no longer conventional. As long as you are willing to write, everyone can create their own illustrations.

GraceCoddington's works

Pioneer Fashion Illustration

In addition to cross-border cooperation with fashion brands, some professional fashion illustrators insist on independent creation. While mastering the basic techniques of illustration, they extended and explored the painting form of fashion illustration and figured out their own style.

VelwynYossy, a pioneer fashion illustrator, has painted a series of unique works. From the smooth and neat lines of the characters in his works, and the overall proportion of exaggeration but still just right, we can see that he has always pursued the aesthetic concept of modernism.

VelwynYossy's works

ErnestoArtillo, another rising star fashion illustrator, extended fashion illustration to a more abstract direction. His unique visual expression technique broke the public's traditional cognition of fashion illustration.

In his recent surreal works, the dynamic and static, the virtual and the real things are combined, and the visual impact of illustrations is infinitely magnified by hand-drawing and collage, which endows the static-oriented fashion illustrations with some momentum.

Ernesto Attillo's works

His creative works are not only published in major magazines for a long time, but also exhibited all over the world. ErnestoArtillo said: "I want to feel relaxed and excited when I see my work." The same is true in normal life. I will look for the balance and how to break the existing state. "

works by p>ErnestoArtillo

even though the golden age of fashion illustration has passed, it is undeniable that fashion illustration still occupies a place in the fashion field and is full of high artistic value.

Fashion illustration is one of the few industries that can combine business and art perfectly, and the continuous emergence of the sought-after illustration works at present increases the possibility of fashion illustration moving forward.

JamesJean's dynamic fashion illustrations

After learning about these most popular and eye-catching fashion illustrations, everyone can start to explore a new way of fashion illustration. The next popular fried chicken may be you.

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[ Editor, Wen/Chen Zhuo] What are the common picture styles of illustrations

First, fashion style illustrations

No matter whether in Japan or Europe and America, they generally do not choose particularly bright colors, and most of them are fresh and elegant, especially those common in nature and daily life. Because this kind of color is more durable, even staring at it will not produce aesthetic fatigue. We also need to pay attention to this point in the handling of such paintings

Second, humorous style illustrations

It is common to use exaggerated modeling, which is very common in European and American styles. The choice of colors is also exaggerated, which makes people laugh at first glance-

Of course, there are many excellent illustrations with funny and humorous styles in the Japanese secondary style, and generally people who are cute and Q-version, especially chubby faces and round eyes, are their iconic features-

Third, the aestheticism style illustrations

are the main theme of this picture. For students who are used to the big scene of fierce confrontation, occasionally watching some of these works will make you feel that your whole body and mind are calm. Generally speaking, in terms of color, neutral and cold main colors are the most common, and the characters appear generally without too much tension. Sometimes, in order to render the silent atmosphere or even abandon the characters, of course, in order to avoid the picture being too dull, Occasionally, some dynamic elements are added to break the picture.

The rain in the picture is the feeling of "moving in silence"-

The distant meteor is not very conspicuous, which also increases the visibility of the picture-

Fourth, realistic illustration

should be the most common style? Draw what it is, and express what needs to be expressed most clearly. Do you need to say more?

v. Q-style illustration

Are you really familiar with Q-style illustration? Commodity packaging, page design, game characters ... No matter whether it's two-dimensional or European or American, the general shapes of all kinds of big-headed dolls will never be out of date. It's either naive or innocent, which really makes people melt-

VI. Illustration of mechanical technology

Heavy steel and gears, motionless buildings, and internal cutting with a sense of design ... these are frequent visitors in mechanical and technological styles. Different from the small freshness we come into contact with, mechanical technology doesn't have so many fancy colors, generally three or four colors are enough. Some even solve problems in black and white

Designers like this solve problems in almost only black and white. But the effect is amazing-

the colors are not rich, but the majestic momentum is at least very successfully expressed-

There are also many such painters in Japan, who form a kind of "contrast" with their younger sisters. You should be familiar with this painter if you have played "Girl Front" recently, right?

VII. Decorative wind illustration

Most of them focus on decorative content, pay more attention to the treatment of lines, and are flexible in color matching, both elegant

and eye-catching-

VIII. Image synthesis wind illustration

As we told you in the tutorial a while ago, many business-oriented projects are generally the same. At this time, pasting materials is a very effective method, and we also have a saying called "half P and half painting".

In many conceptual designs, this method is also a frequent visitor, especially in some cases, the designer wants to determine whether it is appropriate to add trees or buildings in a certain place, but it takes too much time to draw directly. At this time, it is ok to directly intercept from the photos.

In addition to conceptual designers, there are many secondary painters who will use this method now, such as the following illustration by Miss Sister, the hottest fashion illustrator in contemporary times! How was it made?

He is the hottest illustrator

and the best spokesman for fashion

David Downton,

born in London in 1959.

since childhood,

the best treat for him is a blank page.

However,

what David didn't expect was that

after a long time, he could make a living by painting.

▲ David Downton was painting when he was young

▲ The studio has its own painting, which is no less beautiful than Picasso's studio.

▲ You can create amazing works on an "interesting and informative" workbench.

David studied graphic design at first.

His first work was designed for the cover of WhichComputer magazine in the early 198s.

▲ David Downton's fashion illustration in new york in 1998. Made of ink and cellulose acetate paper.

▲ David Downton's fashion illustration for Christine Lacroix in 1998 is made of ink color box paper.

For 15 years,

David has been a freelance illustrator.

No matter what happens,

he enjoys the life of a freelance illustrator.

▲ David Downton's illustration of the fashion designed by Jean Paul jean paul gaultier in 1999. Black dress with black sunglasses is more brilliant. David takes Kate Moss as the prototype and shows the classic charm of fashion in pop style. This work is quite famous in the fashion world and is one of the most representative works in the fashion illustration field in recent years.

▲ David Downton's fashion illustration for Valentino in 1999. Similar to Lacroix, Eric and others, his colors are full of modernity.

▲ PalomaPicasso, a fashion illustration created by David Downton in London in 1999. The material is gouache, ink box paper, and acetate fiber paper coated.

▲ David Downton completed a paper-cut bottle sticker in London in 1999, and the model was Iman. Pan Tong paper was coated with acetate paper and then painted with ink.

The lines of David's works are simple and smooth,

they are very textured, and the style is not artificial,

which can well show the graceful posture of the human body.

Because of this unique painting style,

Some people began to invite him to make fashion illustrations.

Among them, Carmen Dell'Orefice, an p>85-year-old myth, is included.

She is also one of David's muses.

▲ David Downton's fashion illustration in new york in 2, with Carmen Dale Orpheus as the model and ThierryMugler as the designer. This painting was first painted on Pan Tong paper with an oil pastel, covered with cellulose acetate paper, and then painted in ink.

▲ David Downton painted a portrait of Anna Peggy, editor-in-chief of a famous European fashion magazine, in 21. He successfully captured the soul of this "fashion godmother". Exaggerated color matching, playful expression and unruly attitude are combined with seemingly wild but very skillful brushstrokes ~ perfect!

▲ David Downton painted a portrait of Amanda Harriet, the design director of Chanel in 22.

He has always admired artists like Lacroix, Antonio and

Eric.

Therefore,

There are similarities between colors and lines in the early painting style.

In p>1996, he made illustrations for high fashion shows for magazines.

In p>1997, he began to be active in Paris high fashion shows.

At first, he was dazzled and totally unprepared.

However,

the Paris fashion show really inspired an artist.

Paris has the most beautiful women and the best designs.

and everything here is fascinating.