Wednesday, 5 March 2014

ILLUSTRATOR #5, SABINE PIEPER

Sabine Pieper is a fashion illustrator and photographer who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Since her childhood time,  she has been passionate about drawing. Later then,  she studied photography and  starting career as a photographer for several years in Berlin. She have always been very interested in art and illustration, especially fashion illustration. She realised that it was her true passion. So she started to combine her knowledge of photography with her passion as an illustrator. Then she started illustrating by using a variety of media and mixes photography with fine art to her artworks from the very first sketches to the final images in which  in the end, the illustrations were combined with the photographed artworks. After that, she felt it was so playful and it became more and more excited about it.



 In 2010, where the time she gave birth to her first daughter and also her 10 years of work experience in the Fashion Industry, she was asked to do the Delicate Shades campaign for Vlisco, which is one of the world’s biggest players that produced African prints. Fortunately, she followed her passion  and started to work with Vlisco. It was her first big job after the birth of her daughter and she was excited to get the chance to illustrate a whole fashion campaign. It is the first Vlisco campaign that is illustrated and shows her illustrations in combination with 3D photographed Vlisco dresses.

The signature of her style is a feminime and unique compositions with colorful colors. It depicts from her sketches and illustrations.

Moreover, Pieper has worked for world-known fashion advertising clients like Vlisco, Dior, Chloe and she has been published in the likes of Elle, Vogue, and Mademoiselle. Her work has been shown in international publications and she has been recognized by the fashion industry as one of the best Fashion Illustrators of the moment.


Wednesday, 19 February 2014

ILLUSTRATOR #4, HAYDEN WILLIAMS


 Hayden’s passion for illustration manifested at the tender age of 3, he was obsessed with animated Disney characters and often draw them up to meet his standardsHe said nostalgically: “I grew up on Disney movies and the female characters were my initial source of inspiration to draw. I would draw them over and over until I got them spot on! I was fascinated by the magic and beauty of it all. I always credit Disney for serving as such a strong inspiration and influence in what I do.” . Since all those years of drawing idealized female form has led him into fashion illustration and design.



 Exceptional design inspired by Hayden also tend vintage fashion editorials and films . With an undeniable spirit , he exclaimed : " I love the 40's , late 50 's and early 60's because women are dressed so impeccably and with the class . I tend to incorporate elements of classical and what makes them so perennial search for and try to translate it into my work . "
Illustration Hayden doubt always so subtle that it is difficult to believe that they could have been achieved with a simple pencil . He reveals that his toolkit usually just consists of pencils , both liner and sometimes markers to add color .
Hayden revealed that it can take as little as 10-15 minutes to do a quick sketch, but one of his works have been completed with color can take about an hour. He said: "I am a very fast worker and once I have an idea or a vision in my head, I can translate it quite quickly and within a time."
Hayden makes the process of creating something so extraordinary it seem so easy. However it was later revealed that his attitude was not due to be complete comfortable with the process but with years of hard work and discipline.

In addition, the exceptional talent Hayden brought into the limelight by Rihanna put one illustration as the official profile picture on Instagram. Since then, Hayden has garnered many fans over 500,000 fans on Instagram, which includes fashion houses such as Net-a-porter, and Vogue, and celebrities like Oprah, Beyonce and Naomi Campbell.

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

ILLUSTRATOR #3, NABIL NEZZAR


French-born, Belgium-based artist Nabil Nezzar is a multidisciplinary designer and an talented illustrator. Nabil began to illustrate at a very young age in France before moving to Australia and New Zealand in early twenties to develop and explore his work and now residing in Belgium,Nabil enjoys an international client list and a highly desired style. "Fashion inspired, enchanting, detailed works of art have graced a variety of advertising and editorial campaigns in the world". He focuses on editorial, advertising and illustration as well.
Nabil create truly unique art, his illustrations emphasize the natural beauty of women. Attribute of femininity magnified through a careful attention to detail and accentuation of fashion accessories. Drawing on figurative art, Nezzar work is undeniably realistic, launched their inspiring photography and cinematography. Hand rendered,
pictures are created ​​with a mixture of techniques including graphite, colored pencils, markers and water color paints.


Expressing his desire to translate her beauty into works of art, Nezzar has pursued a career in fashion illustration from a very young age. After gaining experience while working with companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi strong, BBDO and Publicis, illustrator became a successful freelance artist. Louis Vuitton, Warner Brothers, Toyota and Galerie Lafayette are some loyal clients, making Nezzar one-to-watch for sure. Displays mastery of fashion illustration, Nezzar work combines photo-realist portraits with sublime accentuation fetishistic detail, the bring-emphasize the beauty of fashion accessories to the forefront of his work.