Monday, April 4, 2016

1 Theme, 5 Ways: Illustrators and Fashionable Ladies [feedly]



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1 Theme, 5 Ways: Illustrators and Fashionable Ladies
// Brown Paper Bag

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At its core, illustration is visual problem solving. When working with a client, for instance, you have to learn how to adapt your artistic language and style to the brief or article. Likewise, when you're producing surface patterns for a product, you have to take into account the object on which it will appear.

With these challenges come a myriad of ways to tackle or "solve" them, and nothing demonstrates this idea better than highlighting one subject and many illustrators. Here are 5 of 'em (and certainly not all) making illustrations that focus on fashionable ladies.

Perrin

Perrin

Perrin (one of my best pals!) created a series of works that "explore the relationship between garment and environment." Her figures accompany all sorts of lovely details like intricate lace patterns, blooming florals, and the macabre.

Perrin

Perrin

 

Natalie Foss

Natalie Foss

Oslo-based illustrator Natalie Foss combines a candy-colored palette with a style that's simultaneously graphic and realistic. Body parts—primarily the face—are handled with a delicate realism, while clothing looks incredibly flat and two dimensional.

Natalie Foss

Natalie Foss

 

Kelly Beeman

Kelly Beeman

I've written before about Kelly Beeman and her elongated figures reminiscent of the artist Modigliani. They're elegant and represent high-fashion looks—I want to wear them all!

Kelly Beeman

Kelly Beeman

 

Kathleen Marcotte

Kathleen Marcotte

Kathleen Marcotte recently illustrated fabulous ladies inspired by the fashions of Anna Sui. The images are busy, lush scenes where patterns collide.

Kathleen Marcotte

Kathleen Marcotte

 

Madalina Andronic

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Madalina Andronic focuses her illustration style on Slavic folk art with a touch of fairy tale. Despite these historic roots, her work is contemporary—I could see these as editorial fashion spreads. Madalina's figures don gorgeous hairstyling and makeup and prove that clothes aren't always necessary.

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Madalina Andronic

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