Miminne

 

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• Illustrator specialising in fashion and beauty images

§  She is based in Italy as an illustrator

§  Illustrator with fashion and graphic design background

§  She graduated from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London. She completed internships at a number of fashion houses including Brioni and Alexander McQueen.

• Miminne’s client list includes:  Si Style, Clarity, Company Magazine, Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers Inc, Hedieh Anvari, Ballantine

Methods used:

§  working with a mix of mediums such as watercolour, pen& ink, Tria markers, etc

§  Using watercolour, she can make realistic yet atmospheric images, and with pen& ink and Tria markers, she can create more direct and spontaneous drawings.

David Downton

Name: David Downton

Born: Kent England 1959

Background:

o   Studied Illustration/graphics at Canterbury and Wolverhampton  1977-1981

o   1984 began illustration career

o   1996, the Financial Times commissioned him to draw at the couture shows and since then David has become known principally as a fashion illustrator

o   Client list includes: Tiffany & Co, Bloomingdales, Barney’s, Harrods, Top Shop, Chanel, Dior, L’Oreal, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, V Magazine and the V&A Museum

o   In 2007, David launched Pourquoi Pas? the first ever journal of Fashion Illustration

Methods used:

o   He does dozens of drawings on to layout paper taking the best from each. When the drawing looks right he start to eliminate, to de-construct. I keep working until it looks spontaneous.

o   Watercolour or gouache for small scale pieces, if he needs flat saturated colour he uses cut paper collage and then apply line using an acetate overlay. For pure line drawing he uses black Indian ink on acetate or paper.

Inspiration:

Matisse, Boldini, Picasso, Francis Bacon, Euan Uglow, Réne Gruau, Mats Gustafsson, Tony Viramontes, Abraham Ganes, Al Hirshfield and Bob Peak.- 1978

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