Non - Narrative Illustration - Fashion Editorial Illustration

As a follow up to my previous Fashion Editorial post I now show my process of creating my Fashion Illustration. I looked at a Fashion Illustrator that I found on Pinterest called Alena Lavdovskaya and her style really influenced me. I love her use of line and her simple colour pallet, I took this into my Illustration.

I started out by sketching some rough designs whilst looking at male fashion poses and I chose two which I really liked and developed them. By developed I mean I added the clothes to a simple figure shape and got these two images (Left and Right). I much prefer the image to the right as I think the pose is more powerful as the pose is very frontal and the strut is prominent in the image, this portrays Nick Caves vain attitude very well. Drawing faces is not my forte so for the sketch I left it out and just as a space filler I drew his eyebrows and to be honest, I really liked how it looked. I think the hair and the eyebrows give the viewer the right amount of information to make out that this is Nick Cave. The image below was pretty much the final illustration, I used watercolours and a Molotow acrylic pen to create this and I really like it. I like the grey tones and the way the background works with the pose. I also tried out some colour as you can see on the side but I didn't think it would work so I decided against it.

This is my finalised Fashion Illustration. At the size 150mm x 10mm 300dpi with a 5mm bleed. (Also the background is white, blogger has changed it and I'm not sure why)

Non - Narrative Illustration - Alena Lavdovskaya / Fashion Editorial

As part of the Fashion Illustration section of this assignment I looked at fashion illustrator 

Alena Lavdovskaya for inspiration. I really like her work, she works in a minimalistic way and that's really effective. I like her use of line and shading in her images. I also like her sketches which have a slight bit of colour in them, I think it brings out the shapes of the figure really well. I don't think I am going to use colour in my illustration but I am definitely going down minimalist route and have a simple line drawing with some grey shading. I will probably use a fine liner or thin Molotow pen for the outline and then maybe water colours for the grey shading. I am quite excited to do this as I have never done a Fashion Illustration before and I really like trying out new things. I am not the best at people proportions either so I am hoping this will give me some practice in that area for in the future. below I will post some images of what I have sketched up so far. and I will also add some of Alena Lavdovskayas drawings to show her inspiration. You will see in my skecthes that I haven't drew a face, I am not the best at drawing faces in small detail so my idea to get around this was to just put in certain aspects of Nick Cave which stand out such has his hair and eyebrows, I like this idea and I think it works quite well.

http://www.lavdovskaya.com/

Pinterest

Alena Lavdovskaya:

My sketches: