Daniel Egneus - Illustrator

Swedish designer Daniel Egneus seeks inspiration from everyday life. His creations are dreamy, vibrant, whimsical and beautiful. With no formal training, Egneus has proven a success with an eclectic range of clients including BMW, Haagen-Dasz, Pepsi Cola Espagna, Playboy and Marie Claire.

Sophie Toulouse

French artist Sophie Toulouse is a fashion illustrator working in the realms of digital media. Toulouse creates her work on a large scale, bringing her contemporary graphic designs to life on gallery walls all over the world. Her works are graphic, detailed and imaginative. Her philosophy about art and her work is that it is a form of therapy, both for herself and her audience. Toulouse also sees her lifestyle and her relationship with her work as a relaxing luxury, only ever working for two hours at a time, in between going for walks, coffee or a chat to give herself a balance and freedom to really enjoy her time creating when she does.








This is an illustration I did of one of Sophie Toulouse's digital works in felt tip.

Maren Esdar - Mixed Media Collage

Maren Esdar is a German born fashion illustrator specialising in mixed media collage. Esdar completed studies in the areas of styling and illustration, using these experiences to create unique, surreal and imaginative artworks.

Through her works, Esdar explores strong themes and imaginations with past works seeing connections between the topics of human fears and phobias, with one such collection titled arachnophobia. The relationship between cruelty and beauty has also been touched in her illustrations. Her works are a fabulous reference point and an imaginative source of inspiration.

Lisolette Watkins

A gorgeous fashion illustrator who has inspired past illustrations of mine is Swedish born Lisolette Watkins. On May 24 I posted an entry about Cassandra Rhodin and I thought her illustrations looked really similar to Watkins in the way that both use bold lines, feminine muses and portray their subjects with large alien-like eyes.

Lisolette Watkins studied at the Dallas Art Institute and has worked for the likes of Vogue and Elle.

Cassandra Rhodin

Another gorgeous fashion illustrator I have been inspired by is Swedish born Cassandra Rhodin. She uses pencil and watercolour to create wide-eyed, alien-like female forms. If you check out her website at the moment you will see her exhibition "Animal Planet" where the female forms in her work have been teamed with animals such as chameleons, zebras and leopards.

Fashion Illustrator - Judit Garcia-Talavera

Judit Garcia-Talavera is an amazing fashion illustrator based in Barcelona, Spain. Her medium is watercolours and inks creating soft, feminine works of art. I have included some favourites of mine below including one of Dita Von Teese, but have a look on her website for more gorgeous illustrations and follow her on her blog as well!

My Fashion Illustrations

I thought today I should add some images of my own illustrations as it is one of my main interests. I have always loved drawing and used to find myself drawing all the time, No matter where I was I had a pen and paper ready! More recently I've lost momentum however I am trying to pick it up again especially now that our final project for fourth year will require putting aside a heap of time for illustrating!






These illustrations are some I did for a project in second semester last year. It was a project in which I started developing a different handwriting to what I had in the past. It is a style I hope to evolve and refine and bring into my collection this year.

Richard Gray - Fashion Illustration

Richard Gray is an amazing fashion illustration from the UK who I have admired for a long time now and have looked to for illustration inspiration. His style is eccentric, bold and quirky with Japanese influences. Richard Gray has worked with Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Agent Provocateur. Gray has also worked with magazines such as Vogue and V Magazine with his illustrations being included in several renowned fashion publications including ‘Fashion Illustration Next’ by Laird Borrelli published by Thames and Hudson and in ‘Wonderland’ edited by Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann, Birga Meyer published by Die Gestalten Verlag. Gray's illustrations have a surreal, other worldly quality which I am inspired by. I find my illustrations aspire to his in that they are clean but quirky and unrealistic in that the figures depicted have a robotic, disjointed edge to them. I have included Richard Gray in my blog to hopefully inspire and bring out the illustrator in you too!