Often, when I have time that I'm not working on commissions, I go back to an earlier interest, fashion illustration. I came within a hair of going in to that profession back in the early 80's when I got out of art school. I'm still inspired by great fashion illustrators of the past and some recent books on the subject are giving them a nice stage on which to be shown. These studies are done fairly quickly...30-45 minutes usually. Mixed media...conte, pastel and oil on bristol board. These three are inspired by Avedon and Hiro photos.
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Wow! Really cool Martin. It's a shame there seems to be almost no fashion illustration these days.
Yea, I don't see much either...really miss it. Did you blog about the artist David Downton one time?...He wrote/compiled two great books on the subject..."Masters of Fashion Illustration" and "100 years of Fashion Illustration". You may have even blogged about the books? Both are great.
Yes-love David Downton-he's really the only current fashion illustrator person that I know of. I know the '100 Years" book but not the "Masters" one-I'll have to look it up.
Steve- The "Masters" book has more of Downton's own work as well as some Peak and Coby Whitmore etc.
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