Jacqueline Bissett

Now i'm going to write about a London based fashion illustrator, Jacqueline Bissett. She was actually from a small town in Midlands. She was trained at England's Epsom School of Art and Design, which is located outside of London. She is getting used to draw with line weight and water-colour. She has been working with a big clients such as Givenchy, Selfridges, Kurt Geiger, Moet & Chandon, Rimmel, Samsung, and many others.

Most of her illustration are simple, but strong. We can see the it from the line that she apply and she can mix and match color pretty well into an illustration. From her illustration we also can say that she really has passion in illustrating and it also showing that she has been illustrating since she was sic a young age.

In one of her interview, she said she started to drew picture from a very early age. She was inspired from a fairy stories such as "Cinderella" and "The Princess and The Frog". She saw how the dress was drawn and then changing the designs.

She has always loved "playing around" with art materials. She love the contrast of flat color and brush strokes. She thinks that the line that she draw show confidence of how many years of illustrating.

Her advice for aspiring illustrators is we do not have to bother unless you are absolutely hardworking and determined to do well. It's a very competitive field she said. We have to be thick skinned to take the knocks and critism that inevitably one gets with hundreds of jobs. It is a wonderful career though.

Katie Rodgers

 Katie Rodgers is one of my favourite fashion illustrators. She is Boston based illustrator. Paper fashion is what her website is. She grew up in Loganville, Georgia. Once she worked as an apparel designer during the day and run her website in her spare time.

Art, illustration and fashion are three things that she always LOVE. From middle school until the end of high school, she spent every summer at Interlochen Arts camp in Michigan studying cello or art and one summer at Philips Exeter Academy in New Hempshire studying art, web design and music. All of these experience have definitely given her the knowledge and drive to be where she is now. She said she never set out to be an apparel designer, or an illustrator, but somehow she was on a path to get there.

The reasons why i love her artwork is because she got her own style in illustrating. Especially when she drew from a model. It turns out to be an absolutely amazing illustration in a lovely way. She described her artwork as a happy realistic and whimsical all art once. Mostly she work with watercolor and ink pens.

Katie has been on receiving end of a nuber of enviable commissions of late- most recently she worked with Coach for New York's Fashion's Night Out where she appeared in store and illustrated a number of handbags for a line of eager customers.

Stina Persson

Stina Persson is a fashion illustrator based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied fine art in Perugia and fashion drawing in Florence, she has a degree of illustration from Pratt Institute in New York. She was awarded the society of illustrator's Student Scholarship in 1996 and in 1997, and she has exhibited her work in several shows in New York and Japan. She has both traveled extensively and lived for several years in Italy since then.

Stina Persson's art is beautifully imperfect and promising. Her illustration looks original and glamorous fashion paintings with some sixties touch.  In her illustration work she mostly uses ink, watercolor, photography, vector, drawing or collages with ceremonial Mexican cut papers to create a style that is vivid and elegant. She fuses the traditional with the edgy to introduce a modern look to illustration. She has done something for big clients such as Nike, Absolut Vodka, Coca cola, Sony Music, Atlantic Records, Macy's Department store, UNIQLO, American Eagle Outfitters, Volvo Japan, Harper's Bazaaar, Elle, Marie Claire and Blue Note Records.

I adore her artwork as well as the other fashion illustrator. Stinna teach me, from her painting, of how to  do shading in a portrait, how to mix different color but still it looks outstanding after the drawing. When i saw her paintings, i always amazed that she doesn't have any outline like what i always do. It shows that her ability in using mixed media is superb.

There is an interview with Stina Persson about how does she paint usually. She said when she starting on a piece, she uses picture reference to get the structure and pose. But others also can see it from the movement of human's body. She found her inspiratio n from thrift shops, flea markets, travels, foreign supermarkets, her child never ending imagination, color,and fashion magazines.

Audria Brumberg

Audria Brumberg is a fashion illustrator based in Brooklyn. She has worked for clients such as Calvin Klein, Loreal and Mattel Barbie. Her works are stunning especially her personl artwork. Her paintings are the combination of minimal and rock and roll style, with the use of monochromatic pallete combined with a bold typographic approach. Her illlustration are very different than the usual fashion illustrator. It's not boring, alive and fresh.

In one of her interview she said she started to paint since she was little. She got into graphic design during her first year of college. She also said that some of the most challenging aspects of design come when you have to please not only the client but also yourself with the outcome of a design. She describes her style of painting as preppy minimalist meets timeless rock and roll. Her work ranges from web design to fashion illustration, just to name a few.

For me her type of fashion illustration is a little bit new because from what i see from another fashion illustator, they only use dots and lines to crete their illustration. Different from the other, Audria is combining, dot, lines, and typography to create such an amazing illustration. Not only that, the technique that she use in combining color is pretty unique. it's not too much. Everything seems balance in her paintings. nothing is too much nor less.
Her artwork really inspired me to be a person who can see beyond the lines. To experiment with everything that you know, see, or feel to your illustration. Fashion illustration isn't always about a full body or a dress. It's just the way how do you see fashion in a person and you draw it to a paper full with your imagination of how do you want that person to look like.