Line and Value

Fashion illustration and Human Body

Hatching linesHatching is an ink drawing technique where you apply tone and texture in rows of parallel lines. Cross Hatching is where you crisscross several layers of Hatching in order to darken your tones.

Contour Using lines

Stick men.Follow these steps and draw your own stick men.After you got the right proportions add some mussel using contour hatching lines.

Contour lines Human Figure

Human Figure Stick men steps

Human Figure Proportion

Make sure the body length is 6 to 7 heads.The belly button shod be the center of your drawing.

Human Figure Contour Hatching

Exercice: Draw 5 different body poses.

Need a model? Ask a friend to pose.

Fashion Illustration

Fashion IllustrationFashion Illustration is

the communication of

fashion that originates

with illustration,

drawing and painting. It

is usually

commissioned for

reproduction in fashion

magazines as one part

of an editorial feature

or for the purpose of

advertising and

promoting fashion

makers, fashion

boutiques and

department stores

Fashion Illustration has been around for

nearly 500 years. Ever since clothes have

been in existence and there was a need to

translate an idea or image into a garment

there has been a need for fashion

illustration. Not only do fashion illustrations

show a representation or design of a

garment but also served as a form of art.

Fashion illustration shows the presence of

hand and is said to be a visual luxury.

More recently, there has been a decline of

fashion illustration in the late 1930s when

Vogue began to replace its celebrated

illustrated covers with photographic images.

Laird Borrelli, author of Fashion Illustration

Now states,

Fashion Illustration

Present illustrators

There are hundreds of fashion

illustrators today, including

Francois Berthoud, Mats Gustafson,

Jean-Philippe Delhomme, David

Downton, Tanya Ling, Ruben

Toledo, Julie Verhoven, Kathryn

Elyse Rodgers, Sarah Hankinson,

Jennifer Lilya, Jessica Mack, and

Kime Buzzelli. Between them these

artists have contributed work to

virtually every major international

fashion magazine as well as a

myriad of fashion businesses

including Barneys, Selfridges, Louis

Vuitton, Viktor & Rolf, Chanel,

Coach, and Burberry.

Bianca Raffaela is a London born

Italian artist. Her fashion illustrations

are a mix of modern realism and

abstraction.

Past illustrators

Paul Iribe (1883–1935), Carl 'Eric'

Erickson (1891–1958), 'Erté' Romain

de Tirtoff (1892-1990), Christian

Bérard (1902–1949), Cecil Beaton

(1904–1980), Rene Gruau (1909–

2004), Irwin Crosthwait (1914–

1981), Lila De Nobili (1916–2002),

Kenneth Paul Block (1924–2009),

Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Antonio

Lopez (1943–1987), Joel Resnicoff

(1948–1986).

Bianca Raffaela

Andy Warhol

Paul Iribe

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What is an Illustration?

What is an Illustration?

An illustration is a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate textual information (such as a story, poem or newspaper article) by providing a visual representation.

Early history: The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric cave paintings. Before the invention of the printing press, books were hand-illustrated. Illustration has been used in China and Japan since the 8th century, traditionally by creating woodcuts to accompany writing.

Illustration

During the 15th century, books illustrated with woodcut illustrations became available. The main processes used for reproduction of illustrations during the 16th and 17th centuries were engraving and etching.

At the end of the 18th century, lithographyallowed even better illustrations to be reproduced. The most notable illustrator of this time was William Blake who rendered his illustrations in the medium of relief etching.

15th 18th century Illustrations

The American "golden age of illustration" lasted from the 1880s until shortly after World War I (although the active career of several later "golden age" illustrators went on for another few decades). As in Europe a few decades earlier, newspapers, mass market magazines, and illustrated books had become the dominant media of public consumption.

Golden age of illustration

Improvements in printing technology freed illustrators to experiment with color and new rendering techniques. A small group of illustrators in this time became rich and famous. The imagery they created was a portrait of American aspirations of the time.

Golden age of illustration

Fashion Illustration

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illustrators analysis

Look at the "Artistic Influences".

What other art movements can you

identify as influential to there work?

What are the elements that make

you think so? Are they the colors,

the use of space, or the materials?

Identify the materials techniques

they used.

Which do you think best illustrates

fashion? Why?

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Fashion Illustration proceedersFrom A to B

Fashion Illustration proceedersFrom A to B

Fashion Croquis Figures