Fashion Illustrator George Stavrinos

  

     George Stavrinos was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1948. Despite a strict upbringing, his parents approved of his career choice, and he studied graphics at the Rhode Island School of Design. Moving to New York City in 1973, George eventually presented his portfolio to prestigious Push Pin Studios where co-founders Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser recognized his talent and offered him a staff position. Though Stavrinos chose only to be represented by Push Pin, it expanded his client list to include New York Magazine, Bonwit Teller, Psychology Today, Pan Am, Columbia Records, CIBAGeigy, Capezio, Viva, Oui, andGentlemen’s Quarterly. In 1977, George began producing fashion illustrations for Barney’s.  In conjunction with an outside ad agency, George’s work quickly became the face of Barney’s new, chic, upscale look.

   Actually his work can know that like use the pencil to draw and also his work mostly became black. And his fashion illustration always let me the feeling of comfort, because the clothes in the picture, it just like the true can know the clothes material. I think he was better to draw the folds of clothes, and let me want to touch the clothes.  He just used the three color black, white and grey can really accurate expression stereoscopic effect, spatial distance. Actually his work did not have so many things, but his picture showing always give us delicate beauty. Sometime simple detail will change all. So I think the details determine success or failure.

  But the one of sad thing is his life was cut short by the AIDs epidemic that swept through an entire generation. The New York Times described his major accomplishments as having helped revive an interest in finely drawn representational art. Actually I really appreciate his illustration style, used pencil to draw one perfect work need spend much time and patience, so how difficult thing if have patience and insist, the success is not far away.  

Fashion illustrator - Antonio Lopez

Antonio Lopez was born in Utuado,Puerto Rico on February 11th, 1943. Antonio Lopez died in 1987, aged 44, but made an indelible mark on the fashion landscape via his distinctive illustrations for fashion houses and publications.

When he was seven years old, he moved to New York with his family. In the early 1960s, Antonio Lopez began to free-lance for fashion magazines. He was a fashion illustrator whose work appeared in such publications as Vogue , Harper's Bazaar , Elle , Interview and The New York Times and the New York Times called him a "major fashion illustrator." Widely recognized during this period as the world's most influential fashion illustrator, Antonio's work took on a deeper, he pursued various art forms and endeavors. He worked in a variety of materials, including pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, watercolor and Polaroid film, richly detailed, with a vivid palette, and heroic proportions and poses. By the early 1970s, His constantly changing, flamboyant style came to dominate

 fashion illustration by injecting energy into a discipline that had been stagnant since the 1950s. A new, more animated, painting style emerged.

From my point of view, he tried to be creative with each fashion illustration. Antonio Lopez is the Picasso of fashion illustration. He captured the pulse of style from the 60s to the 80s, and is still revered as the most inspiring illustrator by today's practitioners. He always chooses exaggerated colors, whose bright color contrast and beautiful image brought different visual impacts to people. The use of colorful, bold images can enrich the visual impact of the design by providing a stark contrast to the muted, solid color of the minimalist design elements. I think people like sensational and visual impact, that is why people called Antonio Lopez is the Picasso of fashion illustration. He could seize it!

Fashion illustrator- René Gruau

René Gruau was a famous fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through painting has had a lasting effect on the fashion industry. René Gruau was born Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli delle Caminate in Rimini, Italy , on February 4, 1909,  Gruau was the son of an Italian count but instead of following in his father's footsteps and accepting the job of royal military commander his passion and inclination for arts led him to a love and pursuance of fine arts. His talent in the art of drawing allowed him to earn his living. 

In 1940’s and 50’s, he became a favorite of high fashion world, worked with Femina, Marie-Claire, L'Officiel, L'Album Du Figaro and other “high-style” magazines. Creating for them dramatic visual statements of sophistication and glamour, capturing the essence of the fashion and conveying elegance with his brush. From my point of view, Illustrations were intensely very important in the haute couture world. With his stunning, passionate, figures, his arresting use of color and dramatic, explosive element of line, Rene Gruau developed his distinctive “ New Look,” Gruau reached the peak of his career in the Art Deco Era, also known as the period of " New Look." Gruau's illustrations reinvented many of the designs and gave them lambency and radiance that the fashion industry previously lacked. In the 1940's which greatly impacted haute couture, theatre, art, and commercial design. Gruau's style combined seductive sophistication with classic beauty, grace and sensual elegance.With clean images and normal colors and simple but strong lines, graceful in motion or repose. Gruau rejected the fine lined watercolour illustration that were in style around 1910 to 1930, his style was heavy and powerful, preferring to define his image using minimal heavy brushstrokes. His striking images comprised of bold lines, minimal colour and clever use of perspective captured the imagination of the public and he also won René international fame.

Fashion illustrator-Cédric Rivrain

This week I will tell you about fashion illustrator and artist Cédric Rivrain. Paris-based artist Cédric Rivrain has been drawing since the age of 18 and has illustrated and designed for prestigious fashion houses including John Galliano, Martine Sitbon and Yazbukey.

Well, from my point of view, he has a talent for drawing and design, he grew up in a medical environment, and his father was a doctor with an impressive collection of unusual medical paraphernalia, Rivrain had access to 18th century anatomical diagrams. So he learned the intricacies of the human form by drawing them with surgical precision. And Rivrain's first drawing was of his mother, a particularly stylish woman who introduced him to fashion Combines this background with his fashion experience to create more fashion illustrations, opening up a door into delicate and dreamy scenes that feature self portraits and depictions of models. The significance the anatomical plays for him can be seen in the band-aids adorning some of his subjects, it's all that is covering their bodies or faces, as Cédric favours nudes over designer clothing.Through bandage and dissection he distances himself from fashion to uncover its inherent beauty. He did impress me at all, he knows the body and how it articulates, and he knows how to move, he focus of his work, focus on model’s eyes. I think when we find the perfect emotion in model’s eyes. And it was interesting to see how model’s eyes could give emotion. Both of us can feel this emotion. 

Cédric Rivrain does a lot of fashion illustration, But my favorite fashion illustration is about Kate Moss. I think he might have a crush on Kate Moss, combined touches of color, but it is not dazzled.Her colorful hair and magnific manner made her very attractive. I really love the very classic drawing style. 

Fashion illustrator-David Downton

David Downton was born in 1959 in Kent, England. He studied at Canterbury and Wolverhampton. When he was 23 years old, he moved to to Brighton and began his illustration career. His first illustration was a cover for Which Computer magazine in the early 80's. He said, he spent about 15 years as a freelance illustrator taking on whatever came in - and enjoying it too. Now, he is a renowned fashion illustrator and he is well know for his work for VOGUE. 

In 1996, he was asked by the Financial Times to draw at the Paris couture shows and since then David has become chiefly known as a fashion illustrator.

Look at his fashion illustrations, I can feel his fashion illustrations with the style of British, the simple and smooth lines, use muted color schemes. He Focus on the movement, nuances of characterization. In my opinion, the more variations you use in your poses and actions, the more natural the characters and animation feel . And He likes to use watercolor or gouache for small scale pieces. If he need flat saturated color he use cut paper collage and then apply line using an acetate overlay. And about the pure line drawing, he use black Chinese ink on acetate or paper. 

From my point of view, the most important thing is the sense of the body in the clothes. After that, proportion, color and details. 

For me, makes a successful fashion illustration, it depends on results. Why? Because I want to achieve and what is most appropriate to the subject. I think Fluidity, mastery of the medium - capturing a sense of the moment, layout and use of space and most important of all, strong drawing. If want to try other color, cooperate in what deep, shallow, demitint must pay attention to on colorific collocation.

 

Fashion illustration-Antonio Soares

Portuguese illustrator Antonio Soares creates hand drawn watercolor illustrations based on the fashion designer patterns and colors of the season.He has become the most recent rising talent to show his charismatic fashion illustrations. These amazingly and clever illustrations are hand drawn then painted using watercolor and color pencils.

Look at his fashion illustrations,I did not think he is a fashion illustrator,I think he mostly likes a make-up artist.Because every single model’s face is very beautiful ,The illustration depicts model’s face, neck and hand in soft color and delicate technique.He is good at paint with a lot of elements.Specially,he paints with colorful flowers,with bright colors,in my eyes,the bright colors seemed to dance and spin.And I do not think the clothes of mixed colors to shirt especially dazzling.If we can use color match in clothes as well as possible.From the picture,we can see Antonio Soares is a person that on the tastes of the pursuit and dedication to details and reflects his quest for perfection in form, detail and fabrication.

He is also good at using watercolors to outline the fashion styles.There are a lot of models have their own personalities in his painting With bright color and vivid model,they are lifelike.And his fashion illustrations show the independent women with strong personality and feminity.Model’s lips and chin had a gentle firmness.Perceptual color and slightly soft lines, a kind of perfect outline respect for nature,return to fresh breath of life,Pay attention to look at his fashion illustration,You will find some details,he adds eye contact to all of these models, then I can feel that these models want to talk something to me,and I think this energy brings out the best of their personality and natural charm.We all know that,the basic languages of painting lines, colors, are very suitable to shape and describe the soft, colorful patterns of women.

Fashion Illustrator-Fernando Vicente

Fernando Vicente, Spain famous fashion illustrator,  to create a very beautiful works mainly depict or mixing paint and photograph. His illustrations can be seen in dozens of publications,  although the painting, he uses a variety of colors, have a great impact on our eyes. We used to think the gentleman should wear a traditional suit on formal occasions, but in his fashion illustrations into our line of sight, we have changed his mind. A good many fashion illustrator ' work is bright, but his work is different. For an instance, though they are in a black suit with a pair of red socks does not seem consistent with bright colors, it does leave us a deep impression and a strong visual impact.

See the various styles of fashion illustrator later, I suddenly found that traditional suits are a little cute. What ' s more, because he is the majority in the drawings are men, we can see that the lines simple and powerful. Of course, all this results from his vivid descriptions. In addition, he has a good command shadow.

Ah, from my point of view, Fernando Vicente is one of the world ' s greatest modern fashion illustrator and his works are all the pieces of undeniable beauty.I studied his work for some time, learned a lot. I use a lot of bright, sparkling color to absorb others '  attention, but seeing his work, I know what is more important is not bright colors, but the colors match. 

In short, in the future, as for me, when I draw fashion illustration, I will not blindly pursue bright colors, on the contrary, I will pay more attention to the color level. The drawn lines, I would not only use the cord as hard lines can also be made ​​clothes.I details guess we are supposed to be strictly proportional body, we don ' t need to exaggerated body proportion.In way we also assumes the shape of the garment.