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]]>Indeed, much like fashion, his art is living and breathing; his signature ink-based style—loose and playful. It’s his non-elitist approach that has caught the attention of huge brands—anything from Louis Vuitton and Audi to Net-A-Porter and Moët Hennessy.
A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Evernden studied BA Fashion Design Womenswear prior to working solely as an artist. Nowadays his work encompasses illustration as well as animation and campaign direction, with his work published on a variety of platforms including television commercials and onsite installations.
“What has always excited me about it, like clothing, is that it can play a part of everyday life,” he explained his love of art and fashion. “I love that it can be a sketch jotted on a post-it note, or a painting hanging in the National Gallery. I’m also excited by how it’s constantly evolving, aided by changes in how we consume, social media, etc.”
Take a look at some of his exciting work in the gallery below:
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]]>The post Bijou Karman’s Illustrations are Always in Fashion appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>“I’ll take a runway image and create a whole story of who the girl is and where she would be,” Karman explained in an interview with Matter of Hand, where she mentioned her sources of inspiration. “I then place her in that situation within my illustration. That’s where a lot of my pieces start.”
But though her work zooms in on features like shoes and sunglasses, her work doesn’t necessarily comply with society’s beauty standards. “My work is not about trends at all,” says Karman, “that doesn’t interest me. If anything I like clothes that are more retro.”
Based in Los Angeles, Karman has graduated from the Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Illustration, but her interest in drawing began much earlier. “I’ve been into drawing since I was a little kid,” she recalled. “Eventually, something clicked and illustration became a major passion of mine,” she adds, noting that combining illustrating with fashion, another passion of hers, was only natural.
Follow her Instagram page for more.
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]]>“As a feminist woman and creator, when I can choose – I’d rather choose to represent women (and men) that are based on beauty models that are different and varied,” stated Ziv in an interview with Sense of Creativity. “For example, using different skin and hair colors and body types.”
Having graduated from Shenkar College of Engineering, Art & Design with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication Design, she notes that her greatest loves are paper cuttings and pencil sketching. But she’s also fascinated by the world of fashion and textile, as well as its combination with art and illustration.
Inspired by architecture as well as children’s books, her works have gained quite the crowd, with her selected clients including brands and publications such as Tollman’s, The Washington Post, Wix, and RESLING Publishing House. Her biggest dream? To write and illustrate her own children’s book.
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]]>The post The Fashion World is Nicole Helf’s Oyster appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>But it’s her illustrations which first caught our attention. Bright, bold and more often than not, pink, her illustration style fits in nicely with her aesthetics in general. “I get inspiration from my many travels, museums, paintings, nature, fashion shows, magazines, pop culture, different songs, and music,” she noted in an interview with Talenthouse. “Sometimes when I am doing nearly anything, or simply even people watching, I get great ideas for textile design and illustration.”
“I always have my camera and sketchbook with me,” adds Helf, relaying her creative process. “When I see an interesting outfit, textile design, trend or color combination, I usually take some pictures to capture it or I sketch the idea. After this I brainstorm and put all my ideas together.”
Currently based near Frankfurt, since graduating Helf has worked with brands like C&A, Street One, Blutsgeschwister, and Zalando. She has also won the international fashion design competition Style X at the SWSW Festival in Austin, as well as had an outfit she designed worn by the singer Maya Azucena on the runway. In other words: this is only the beginning for this young trendsetter.
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]]>The post Annie Naranian’s Wonky Fashion Illustrations Will Encourage You to Have Fun! appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Based in Toronto, Canada, Naranian admits that her goal is to make other people happy through her work. “I want my audience to find happiness and laughter throughout my art,” she explains on her website. “And this is mainly because I think we take life a little too seriously sometimes.”
This alone makes her work a breath of fresh air in the “fashion goals” landscape of Instagram. “There are many things around me that I am able to get inspired by,” relayed Naranian in an interview with I Love Illustration. “These things range from clothing, books, old magazines, and textiles. The sketches of old masters that I look up to are Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, and David Downtown. What I appreciate about the three of these artists (and fashion designers) is their playfulness with figure, shape, and color.”
She adds that playfulness is an intriguing element in the creation of art as it is able to evoke a story by capturing the fundamental parts of the image, without getting too bogged down by the details. Using ink, pastel, acrylic, and watercolors, as well as her good ol’ iPad, Naranian’s creative process is as messy and as playful as the end result.
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]]>The post This Artist Creates Fashion Illustration Using Her iPhone appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>She inherited her grandfather’s talent and began drawing when she was 11-years-old and although she has a degree in architecture, when it comes to fashion illustration she is completely self-taught. Her portraits, which she draws on her iPhone are recognizable by big eyes.
“My personal style is all about balance: sporty and feminine, classic and modern, vintage and contemporary, high and low,” the artist shared in an interview for I Love Illustration. “I love doing portraits at the moment, and always women. I have never drawn a man in my life, I don’t know why!”
She says that she seeks inspiration from fashion, fashion weeks and runways, magazines, street style, fashion bloggers and the high street.
Scroll down and check out her illustrations below. You can stay connected with the artist on Instagram.
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]]>The post Sella Molenaar’s Fashion Illustrations Have a Life of Their Own appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>But being a self-taught artist, her journey to fashion illustrations was a meandering one. “I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I went to the famous academy in Antwerp but stopped in the first year,” she recalled in an interview with I Love Illustration. “After I moved to Amsterdam during my masters in Art History I just desperately needed a job and decided to go draw on festivals and weekend markets for voluntary donations. Just because I was already always drawing anyway and it seemed so much more fun than working in a cafe or coffee bar. This was in a time that nobody was doing live illustration yet, so I got picked up really quickly,” she says.
Working first as a live illustrator, her style is loose and full of movement – capturing the dynamic spirit of fashion. “My style is still very defined by the early days where I used to draw on the streets, catwalks or at events so you always have to be quick,” Molenaar explained. “Therefore, my drawings always have a sense of speed in them.”
With no sketches to rely on (or even erasers), her work cuts to the chase. “I often make several versions of one theme and add on tho earlier drawings or take different parts from others till it will emerge into something that feels right for me,” she says. “I always try to balance technique with a bit of impulsiveness. It are often the little accidents, ‘faulty’ lines and even things that you don’t draw that make my illustrations come alive.”
See for yourself.
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]]>The post Fashion Plus Illustrations Equals Tessa M. de Graaf appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>“After an internship at Cosmopolitan magazine, I immediately started working as a freelance stylist,” she recalled in an interview with I Love Illustration. “But Illustrating was what I loved most so after a few years of styling I decided to change course and started working as an illustrator.”
Now based in Alkmaar, she’s known for her intuitive work, which relies on loose lines and watercolors. Her work tools also include ink, paint, crayons, and pencils. “I like to color outside the lines,” she says. “I don’t sketch with a pencil; I just create lots of silhouettes or faces with watercolor/ ink directly on paper.”
Her motto seems to be “less is more,” focusing on simplicity rather than over-embellishment and using her hands rather than the computer. Her clients include brands like AvantGarde, Viva, Elegance, Libelle, and Margriet.
Follow her work on Instagram.
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]]>The post Simona Murialdo’s Fashion Illustrations are the Meaning of Fresh appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>But it’s her fashion illustrations that have really caught our attention. Bold and graphic, they have a certain sheen to them that makes them really pop. With her latest project, she attempted to describe what seems most influential and inspiring in contemporary fashion panorama, using illustrative commentary.
But in an interview with I Love Illustration, Murialdo admitted that it took her some time and effort to find her artistic voice. “With illustration, I have struggled a bit to maintain a definitive style and I know this is sometimes a flaw, especially for someone working as a professional,” she said. “Iʼve got a ‘transitional period’ every few years in which I get bored of what I do and search for new fresh inspirations.”
Having found her voice, she now teaches Graphic and Multimedia Design at Istituto Marangoni. “I am very fortunate because I work every day with groups of young creative students from all over the world,” she said. “I get to share ideas with them and artistically direct them through different projects.”
Take note.
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]]>The post This is What Happens When a Fashion Designer Starts Painting appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Working both commercially and otherwise, van Bemmel has collaborated with fashion magazines, creating editorial illustrations. “Freelancing makes me schedule my own time and this is absolutely what makes it worth all the extra work and uncertainties,” she told I Love Illustration. “Being my own boss and deciding for myself what to do that day is incredibly rewarding.”
And much like her day to day, her creative process also varies, allowing her much room for playfulness and intuition. “Most of the time I brainstorm in my sketchbook and make small 15sec sketches to figure out the composition and pose,” she says. “Sometimes I only sketch one, sometimes I need more, but they always help me figure it out before starting on a big blank paper.”
She starts out by drawing with colored pencils and sometimes markers for some big gestures, moving onto acrylic paint if needed. She sometimes works digitally as well but makes sure to begin with a drawing on paper. Take a look at some of her creations in the gallery below.
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]]>The post Fashion Illustrator Finds Inspiration from the Street appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Indeed, much like fashion, his art is living and breathing; his signature ink-based style—loose and playful. It’s his non-elitist approach that has caught the attention of huge brands—anything from Louis Vuitton and Audi to Net-A-Porter and Moët Hennessy.
A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Evernden studied BA Fashion Design Womenswear prior to working solely as an artist. Nowadays his work encompasses illustration as well as animation and campaign direction, with his work published on a variety of platforms including television commercials and onsite installations.
“What has always excited me about it, like clothing, is that it can play a part of everyday life,” he explained his love of art and fashion. “I love that it can be a sketch jotted on a post-it note, or a painting hanging in the National Gallery. I’m also excited by how it’s constantly evolving, aided by changes in how we consume, social media, etc.”
Take a look at some of his exciting work in the gallery below:
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]]>The post Bijou Karman’s Illustrations are Always in Fashion appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>“I’ll take a runway image and create a whole story of who the girl is and where she would be,” Karman explained in an interview with Matter of Hand, where she mentioned her sources of inspiration. “I then place her in that situation within my illustration. That’s where a lot of my pieces start.”
But though her work zooms in on features like shoes and sunglasses, her work doesn’t necessarily comply with society’s beauty standards. “My work is not about trends at all,” says Karman, “that doesn’t interest me. If anything I like clothes that are more retro.”
Based in Los Angeles, Karman has graduated from the Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Illustration, but her interest in drawing began much earlier. “I’ve been into drawing since I was a little kid,” she recalled. “Eventually, something clicked and illustration became a major passion of mine,” she adds, noting that combining illustrating with fashion, another passion of hers, was only natural.
Follow her Instagram page for more.
The post Bijou Karman’s Illustrations are Always in Fashion appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post The Fashion Forward Illustrations of Yali Ziv appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>“As a feminist woman and creator, when I can choose – I’d rather choose to represent women (and men) that are based on beauty models that are different and varied,” stated Ziv in an interview with Sense of Creativity. “For example, using different skin and hair colors and body types.”
Having graduated from Shenkar College of Engineering, Art & Design with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication Design, she notes that her greatest loves are paper cuttings and pencil sketching. But she’s also fascinated by the world of fashion and textile, as well as its combination with art and illustration.
Inspired by architecture as well as children’s books, her works have gained quite the crowd, with her selected clients including brands and publications such as Tollman’s, The Washington Post, Wix, and RESLING Publishing House. Her biggest dream? To write and illustrate her own children’s book.
The post The Fashion Forward Illustrations of Yali Ziv appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post The Fashion World is Nicole Helf’s Oyster appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>But it’s her illustrations which first caught our attention. Bright, bold and more often than not, pink, her illustration style fits in nicely with her aesthetics in general. “I get inspiration from my many travels, museums, paintings, nature, fashion shows, magazines, pop culture, different songs, and music,” she noted in an interview with Talenthouse. “Sometimes when I am doing nearly anything, or simply even people watching, I get great ideas for textile design and illustration.”
“I always have my camera and sketchbook with me,” adds Helf, relaying her creative process. “When I see an interesting outfit, textile design, trend or color combination, I usually take some pictures to capture it or I sketch the idea. After this I brainstorm and put all my ideas together.”
Currently based near Frankfurt, since graduating Helf has worked with brands like C&A, Street One, Blutsgeschwister, and Zalando. She has also won the international fashion design competition Style X at the SWSW Festival in Austin, as well as had an outfit she designed worn by the singer Maya Azucena on the runway. In other words: this is only the beginning for this young trendsetter.
The post The Fashion World is Nicole Helf’s Oyster appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Annie Naranian’s Wonky Fashion Illustrations Will Encourage You to Have Fun! appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Based in Toronto, Canada, Naranian admits that her goal is to make other people happy through her work. “I want my audience to find happiness and laughter throughout my art,” she explains on her website. “And this is mainly because I think we take life a little too seriously sometimes.”
This alone makes her work a breath of fresh air in the “fashion goals” landscape of Instagram. “There are many things around me that I am able to get inspired by,” relayed Naranian in an interview with I Love Illustration. “These things range from clothing, books, old magazines, and textiles. The sketches of old masters that I look up to are Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, and David Downtown. What I appreciate about the three of these artists (and fashion designers) is their playfulness with figure, shape, and color.”
She adds that playfulness is an intriguing element in the creation of art as it is able to evoke a story by capturing the fundamental parts of the image, without getting too bogged down by the details. Using ink, pastel, acrylic, and watercolors, as well as her good ol’ iPad, Naranian’s creative process is as messy and as playful as the end result.
The post Annie Naranian’s Wonky Fashion Illustrations Will Encourage You to Have Fun! appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post This Artist Creates Fashion Illustration Using Her iPhone appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>She inherited her grandfather’s talent and began drawing when she was 11-years-old and although she has a degree in architecture, when it comes to fashion illustration she is completely self-taught. Her portraits, which she draws on her iPhone are recognizable by big eyes.
“My personal style is all about balance: sporty and feminine, classic and modern, vintage and contemporary, high and low,” the artist shared in an interview for I Love Illustration. “I love doing portraits at the moment, and always women. I have never drawn a man in my life, I don’t know why!”
She says that she seeks inspiration from fashion, fashion weeks and runways, magazines, street style, fashion bloggers and the high street.
Scroll down and check out her illustrations below. You can stay connected with the artist on Instagram.
The post This Artist Creates Fashion Illustration Using Her iPhone appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Sella Molenaar’s Fashion Illustrations Have a Life of Their Own appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>But being a self-taught artist, her journey to fashion illustrations was a meandering one. “I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I went to the famous academy in Antwerp but stopped in the first year,” she recalled in an interview with I Love Illustration. “After I moved to Amsterdam during my masters in Art History I just desperately needed a job and decided to go draw on festivals and weekend markets for voluntary donations. Just because I was already always drawing anyway and it seemed so much more fun than working in a cafe or coffee bar. This was in a time that nobody was doing live illustration yet, so I got picked up really quickly,” she says.
Working first as a live illustrator, her style is loose and full of movement – capturing the dynamic spirit of fashion. “My style is still very defined by the early days where I used to draw on the streets, catwalks or at events so you always have to be quick,” Molenaar explained. “Therefore, my drawings always have a sense of speed in them.”
With no sketches to rely on (or even erasers), her work cuts to the chase. “I often make several versions of one theme and add on tho earlier drawings or take different parts from others till it will emerge into something that feels right for me,” she says. “I always try to balance technique with a bit of impulsiveness. It are often the little accidents, ‘faulty’ lines and even things that you don’t draw that make my illustrations come alive.”
See for yourself.
The post Sella Molenaar’s Fashion Illustrations Have a Life of Their Own appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Fashion Plus Illustrations Equals Tessa M. de Graaf appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>“After an internship at Cosmopolitan magazine, I immediately started working as a freelance stylist,” she recalled in an interview with I Love Illustration. “But Illustrating was what I loved most so after a few years of styling I decided to change course and started working as an illustrator.”
Now based in Alkmaar, she’s known for her intuitive work, which relies on loose lines and watercolors. Her work tools also include ink, paint, crayons, and pencils. “I like to color outside the lines,” she says. “I don’t sketch with a pencil; I just create lots of silhouettes or faces with watercolor/ ink directly on paper.”
Her motto seems to be “less is more,” focusing on simplicity rather than over-embellishment and using her hands rather than the computer. Her clients include brands like AvantGarde, Viva, Elegance, Libelle, and Margriet.
Follow her work on Instagram.
The post Fashion Plus Illustrations Equals Tessa M. de Graaf appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post Simona Murialdo’s Fashion Illustrations are the Meaning of Fresh appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>But it’s her fashion illustrations that have really caught our attention. Bold and graphic, they have a certain sheen to them that makes them really pop. With her latest project, she attempted to describe what seems most influential and inspiring in contemporary fashion panorama, using illustrative commentary.
But in an interview with I Love Illustration, Murialdo admitted that it took her some time and effort to find her artistic voice. “With illustration, I have struggled a bit to maintain a definitive style and I know this is sometimes a flaw, especially for someone working as a professional,” she said. “Iʼve got a ‘transitional period’ every few years in which I get bored of what I do and search for new fresh inspirations.”
Having found her voice, she now teaches Graphic and Multimedia Design at Istituto Marangoni. “I am very fortunate because I work every day with groups of young creative students from all over the world,” she said. “I get to share ideas with them and artistically direct them through different projects.”
Take note.
The post Simona Murialdo’s Fashion Illustrations are the Meaning of Fresh appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>The post This is What Happens When a Fashion Designer Starts Painting appeared first on MobiSpirit.
]]>Working both commercially and otherwise, van Bemmel has collaborated with fashion magazines, creating editorial illustrations. “Freelancing makes me schedule my own time and this is absolutely what makes it worth all the extra work and uncertainties,” she told I Love Illustration. “Being my own boss and deciding for myself what to do that day is incredibly rewarding.”
And much like her day to day, her creative process also varies, allowing her much room for playfulness and intuition. “Most of the time I brainstorm in my sketchbook and make small 15sec sketches to figure out the composition and pose,” she says. “Sometimes I only sketch one, sometimes I need more, but they always help me figure it out before starting on a big blank paper.”
She starts out by drawing with colored pencils and sometimes markers for some big gestures, moving onto acrylic paint if needed. She sometimes works digitally as well but makes sure to begin with a drawing on paper. Take a look at some of her creations in the gallery below.
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