SOPHIE GRIOTTO

Sophie Griotto is a fashion illustrator from French who has some very unique illustrations in her portfolio. With a style that mixes fashion illustration and trends, Griootto works freelance on advertising campaigns and frequently illustrates the pages of fashion magazine and sites. 

She attended the school of visual arts when she turned 5years old, and the School of Applied Arts in France where she developed her graphic commutation skills. Since i was a child, she started attending art classes and she wanted to become a painter. She started drawing and painting before she could even write. In 1998, she started working for a parisienne art agency whose budget was primarily focused on beauty and luxury, then she found herself working as a story boarder which involved putting ideas on paper for ad campaigns. Because of this job, she became a fashion illustrator and in 5 years time she had mastered how to draw women from different angles and in different situations. 

She works with more traditional tools like inks and pencils but also with her tablet graphic Wacom. And she works on an illustration much like a fashion designer: mood boards, sketches, selection of fabrics, creation of styles. Most brands she work with use photography, and with these clients her style is rather realistic. She work for Swatch Jewels resonated internationally. Since 2008, she showcased her digraphic canvas at the Galleries Lafayette Maison in Paris. She worked for Dior, Clarins, Wolkswagen, Elle Magazine, Shiseido. She also illustrated a style book “Cultive ton look” and Katie Fforde’s  cover books. 

She loves her job because her art can be applied in different fields, and this is the beauty of it. She enjoy her French touch and great sense of fashion a lot.

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THIRI YADANAR @TIFFANY 

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Stina Persson

Stina Persson is a fashion illustrator who’s known for her ability in using watercolours, ink and gouache and creating amazing works of art for popular magazines and brands like Absolut Vodka, Godiva Chocolatier, UNIQLO, DKNY, American Eagle Outfitters, Vogue Nippon, etc. She was born in Sweden in 1972, and has lived and studied in Tokyo, Florence and New York. Today, she lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

She has always loved making things, from muffins to art work to ceramics. Then it comes naturally to look at other people’s creations. Her favourite subject to illustrate is faces, women, and letters. And lately more and more organic shapes and patterns. When she was little, she used to draw girls with intricate hats, big smiles and colourful dresses. 

Her fields of work have included literally everything, from skateboard design to shrimp salad packaging and interesting Japanese and New York-based fine art projects.Her incredible watercolour paintings from the collection called perfectly flawed were inspired by getting off of the computer and being less than perfect but really I think that she has achieved a higher level of perfection in her newest collection. Something that you can only find in work completely done by hand, and kept away from the coldness and digital rendering of a computer. Her work is mesmerising and amazingly influenced by the timelessness of the fashion from 60’s and 70’s. When working with ink, she like to use wooden sticks that she pick up from the ground to draw with as they seem to make an interesting line. For colour, she use Doctor Martin’s transparent dyes, acrylics or paper collage.

She likes the beautiful things, the pretty patterns and the creative people. But the sad, anorexic girls, the snobbism and the conglomerate fashion houses she can do without. The goal with her work is making the ugly prettier and the beautiful a little edgier.

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Thiri Yadanar@Tiffany 

Petra Dufkova

Petra Dufkova was born in Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic, Petra initially studied art at technical school for applied arts.She moved to Munich, Germany and in 2008, graduatedfrom the International Fashion School Esmond, with a Pret-a-porter collection.During her education at Esmond, she participated in numerous projects and contests, including winning Best Illustration award with her collection at China Fashion Week. 

Petra's fashion, beauty and lifestyle illustrations combine traditional methods, with a modern look. She gets her inspiration from books, magazines, exhibitions and fashion shows. Petra currently works as a freelance illustrator, stylist and fashion designer in Munich, Germany. What I love about her technique is that her lines are so perfected, almost as if they had been created using a program. This makes her work look so crisp and modern, which is exactly why her main focus is on the edgy world of fashion illustration. However, her pieces are almost too good to feature in the 'throw-away' context of magazines. Hailing from the Czech Republic, illustrator Petra Dufkova’s use of watercolour gives a romantic contrast to the sharp lines favoured in her sketches. Not typecasting her subject to the female form, Dufkova looks to everyone and everywhere for her inspiration, including the past. A favourite is her portrait of Audrey Hepburn; so accurate in her execution it almost seems life-like.

 

Her moodier work based around taupe, beige and dark grey showcase her artistic versatility; too many illustrators focus on the lighter side of life. Her black on white illustrations portray the darker, more emotional. The series that focuses on facial portraits and palm trees reminds me of the under-side of Hollywood, the un-publicised, shadier side of celebrity.

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THIRI YADANAR@TIFFANY

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Sarah Hankinson, Australia-based illustrator from Melbourne is one of the best illustrator nowadays. She lives in St Kilda and illustrate from a studio in Windsor.

She captures the pulse of modern style with her classic illustrations, which pair soft splashes of colours and meticulous line work to portray control and impulse, form and silhouette. Sarah’s illustration style is elegant, youthful, and strongly fashion orientated, many of her pieces focusing on the female form and made up from a variety of mediums including inks, charcoal, pencils, cut paper and fabrics. Some of Sarah’s clients include Harper’s Bazaar Magazine, Maybelline New York- Austraila and US Target. In 2012 Sarah co-founded The Windsor Workshop a co-working studio space in Melbourne’s South and is also half of creative services agency Santiago Sunbird.Her first published illustration was in Girlfriend Magazine and  she treated each illustration job as a path to gain exposure therefore more work. She love fashion and follow many models so it was natural for her to draw this kind of imagery and progress her career on this path. Sarah’s work is a combination of traditional handmade and digital collage. Inspired by her travels and an avid collector of random ephemera, she finds and stores interesting bits of old paper, maps, photographs and various objects, which have all become strong elements in her work. For every new project she has a unique sift through the many random piles, sketchbooks and pads that have accumulated around her studio selecting suitable elements as she goes. Well known at art school for her numerous layered and collaged sketch books, Sarah still, continually collects and documents new and inspiring collage material/ephemera in this way.

And her words of wisdom for other freelance illustrator is

        "Work hard! Don’t be disheartened if it doesn’t happen straight away it takes time and commitment. If you are passionate you can make it happen".