Fashion illustrations

Carlos Aponte is a Puerto Rican artist whose style is monochromatic that’s is also quite graphic. He studied at Parson the New School for Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Aponte works fast and believes this is the best was in keeping things fresh. “What I like about drawing men or menswear is that I can be aggressive, bold and full character”.

 The use of tape brings a rural sense to the illustration, because of the creases and imperfections. The lack of detail is interesting as it keeps the viewer guessing, he’s achieved this by just outlining the garment and model.

Mathew Attard Navarro is originally from Malta, and it was where he studied at Art School. Since moving to London, he has worked with fashion and luxury brands on innovative campaigns.

  Navarro’s style is rapid-fire sketches, which is shown throughout his illustrations, it gives the impression of continuous line.  The glance of a background sets the scene for the illustration, by using this technique it ands depth to the illustrations. Navarro emphasis the garment by using heavier, more frequent lines.   

 

I believe Photoshop was used to achieve this illustration because I see similarities with work that has been produce on Photoshop. The illustrator would have been copy and pasted the image of the face on to the same page as the one wearing the garment. The image of the garment would have been cut using the polygonal lasso tool and then the layer would have been dragged above the image of the face so the image of the face is only shown through the part that has been cut.