Tonight's Best

Tonight's Best Gouache, Ink, Photoshop 2014

Last night I got a chance to attend the Society of Illustrators sketch night presented by my former professor Bil Donovan. One of my living heroes of fashion illustration,  and a fine artist himself, I appreciate a good abstract approach to painting the fashionable. 

Breathtaking looks one after the other and emotional gazes given by these models brought me back to sitting in his Concepts of Fashion Illustration class that he instructed while I was at FIT. I couldn't help but think of positive vibes and thinking about how we can put our best foot forward after getting knocked down or going through a really hard time. I had to tell myself, confidence, confidence and only positive energy allowed. Here is what I felt was my best that night, done in ink and gouache on paper with digital finish of a photoshop brush.

Here are some originals from the session.