Review : Laura Laine, David downton and Sandra Suy

Hey guys, sorry for not updating my blog for such a long time, so recently i just gotten myself a new computer, i can start updating again. So recently i went out with a friend of mine and she's my colleague. We used to work together and it just so happen that she's studying fashion as well and from there she gave me some lessons and told me to do some research on some of the designers and now i decided to do a review on the designer's illustration. If you want to, comment below and tell me what you think of them. 

Laura Laine's designs are more towards the avant garde and the way she presents her drawing has more personality and conture lines to it. Compared to the other designers doing illustration, there's a certain unique personality given to her drawing giving them a certain type of energy, almost alive but not alive. Every single lines and contour is as detailed and intricate as the work she's presenting and the effort she's putting in. The skill of shading black and white is definitely not a challenge for any good designers out there but something about her works just scream "I'm different" and being different is never always a bad thing. The way she presents her drawing are odd yet soft and the expression on their faces are almost life like. Even though there are so many ways of creating your illustration, Laura Laine's design can be said is beyond the realm of consciousness but rather more on something on the sub conscious level. 

Shades, colors, lighting, two words, David Downtown. Looking at his work for some reason screams vogue and after researching more, surprise surprise, apparently he did work with vogue before. While doing fashion illustration, so many ways of creating the design, either by doing the outlines first or finding where the shadows and filling them up without the outlines and there are so many more ways of creating your illustration. Looking at his, the first thing i probably notice is the thing he used to color his models which is mostly markers and that is probably something that i can't do because shading with a marker is so difficult and hats off to those who can but that doesn't i wouldn't give it a try. The next thing i probably notice is that his designs are not really outlined but rather shading by seeing where the light hits and where the shadows are formed and after filling those up, you get an imaginary line where it seems like his work was being outlined. 

With the looks of a demure girl, she may look demure but the expression in her eyes says more than her posture. In those piercing yet beautiful stares of the models is a girl with secrets and lust. Such powerful drawings is created by Sandra Suy. I think when most designer draw their models, some of them do not focus a lot on the eyes and i think the eyes is one of the few things that can bring out the emotions of drawings without the necessity of the mouth. People say a picture's worth a thousand words but to me, i think the eyes are worth a thousand words. I think after looking at some of different designers, one thing i have noticed is details, they really focus on the details and strokes of the details and it's something that's going to make the design even more defined. The details alone has already made her illustrations impressive and the way she used different mediums such as pencils, markers, water markers and other kind of mediums has just made her work complete and filled with artistic life and intense energy.