Well, I don’t suppose this demonstrates process in a strict chronological way. But it does show one thing I like about working digitally, which is being able to play with layers. As one would with different pieces of tracing paper in a traditional sense, you can almost have more fun with in a digital sense, in that you’re playing with colour and various states of being rendered.
Do I like the first image better? In a way I do find it more interesting. Less literal. Her hair implied instead of given. Her mouth highly rendered in comparison to the other components. Imagine creating portraits like this. How would those commissioning a piece react? It might be interesting to play with the layers of finished portraits some more, working backwards in a way, to come up with something different. More interesting? Hmm. Perhaps a future project idea..
This illustration was created for The Style Notebook. Rita Liefhebber is a Toronto designer, and former fashion editor at Flare magazine. Click here to read the interview.
Alber Elbaz has been working wonders as the Artistic Director for Lanvin since 2001. And he’s also a great illustrator!
Pictured above are some stamps my friend brought me from Paris featuring his drawings. So great! His illustrations have been featured on the backdrop for this Acne Lanvin collaboration photoshoot, on numerous Lanvin products, and apparently he has illustrated a song for Mika, which I would love to see.
Personally, in terms of design, his shoes have always tempted me. Have you seen this crystal-embellished satin ballerina flat? Or maybe these leather boots? Size 9 thanks.
Here’s the latest illustration I created for The Style Notebook. Kealan Sullivan is owner of 69 Vintage and you can check out the interview with her here!
Canadian designer Anastasia Lomonova is featured on The Style Notebook today. For the illustration, her outfit (what little of it you see in the drawing) was based on one of the designs from her SS 2010 collection. It’s a dress with a deep v that really made me think of V Magazine covers.
In other illustration news, my good friend Elisheva Marcus created some drawings for a new line of tshirts – check it out here!
I recently discovered Calla Haynes when I was asked to create this illustration for The Style Notebook. Calla is a Canadian-born fashion designer based in Paris. And her work is fantastic.
I completely love the description of her collections as “relaxed luxury”. Overall that is a term I would use to describe my own personal style (or maybe just the relaxed part).
Needless to say, I am a huge fan of Calla – her pieces are very special. She creates lovely prints and surface pattern design work, and has collaborated with Jeremy Laing on prints for several of his collections. I have admired these prints for years without knowing they were hers!
I’m currently working on a custom leather case for my portfolio. Last week I laser etched my logo onto the leather. Now I just need to figure out the lining and draft a pattern.
Excited to finish this work in progress!
Winnipeg-born, London-based fashion designer Mark Fast worked with Lancome to create an installation at Brookfield Place for Luminato. He is known for his stunning knitwear, and is doing well: recently there was a lot of press over his show during London Fashion Week, and his collaboration with TopShop with be available soon.
After a visit to Luminato, I created an illustration of it for The Style Notebook. This image above is a little part of it in progress. Check out the finished illustration here!
The latest portrait I created for The Style Notebook’s Talk to Me questionnaire is of Robin Givhan. Robin is the fashion editor of The Washington Post. Very accomplished, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2006 as a fashion writer. See the full illustration and read the two part interview here.
This is a recent logo I developed for a friend’s fundraiser for kidney cancer research. They were looking for a logo that was a bit whimsical, and that might incorporate the subject matter.
Because I thought the kidney, in a stylized, but still relatively accurate way, could resemble a cloud, I decided to go with that imagery and incorporate stars, as they can be associated with concepts like magic, ideas, and wishing. So in the end, I think unless you are both particularly medically and visually inclined, the kidney reference is easy to overlook in this sky imagery. But it is there for those who find it – and even if you don’t, I think it still works as a logo.
