Fresh and New

Fall fashion has been on my mind. Check out the new thang.

Lately

Finally getting on the ground running. 

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My Senior Exhibition Showpieces at Fashion Institute of Technology

90's Revisited

Active Life Calender: December; Yoga

In Class Drawing

 

Fashion Icon: Grace Jones

My illustrations that were selected as showpieces on display in the Fashion Illustration gallery at the Art & Design Graduating Student Exhibition 2012 at Fashion Institute of Technology running from May 9-22nd. 

It was a bittersweet journey getting to this point, yet I'm loving the way these came out! 

Mad Hatter

Concentraated ink and flat brushes.

Cabaret Fiasco

When I'm in anatomy class, all I think about is the disco diva in a trance and I guess this is what happens when I spend too much time listening to old school music... something from another time and space. 

She's just in a cabaret fiasco.

Bon Voyage: A lifestyle illustration

An Illustration Student's Compilation

This is a spread of all of the major projects I had this semester in my fashion illustration class. Really helpful class that now looking back, gave great practice of drawing from the model and experimenting with mediums. The first two assignments were based on articles.

(Top right) Spot Illustration for an article discussing the Most Expensive Retail Locations. I based my concept on the Avenue de Champs-Elysees in Paris, France moving up in rank on the list as London's Bond St. moved lower on the list. I represented Paris as the Arc de Triomphe (a boot [stepping on]) and London as Big Ben (broken toy). Done in gouache.

(Top right and bottom right) are based on an article about the rise and fall of the sun tan, an article from Flaunt Magazine. One is pro tan, on is against tanning. I love exaggerating hair, using the head as a platform to exaggerate (can be found a lot in fashion illustrators). I wanted to push that more than anything while executing the key points. I hope you can guess which reps the concepts they belong to.

Finally,
Final projects were based on a celebrity personality. I LOVED doing this one because my muse was Prince, one of my favorite artists. I admire Prince as a musician and how mysterious and really deep this guy is! I chose to use doves to symbolize him, If you're thinking of "When Doves Cry" good, but that was only the half of the concept. I've used "the love symbol" that he went by solely in the 90's to frame his body and played with opacity and layers in photoshop after rendering this piece traditionally in gouache and acrylic.

More to come.