About this item
From the clothes to the pose, here's everything you need to create fierce fashion illustrations.Create fabulous fashion moments! Drawing on 20+ years of fashion illustrating experience, Jennifer Lilya uses acrylic paint and black ink to show you how to draw the clothes, poses and attitudes behind runway-worthy art. Follow her expert tips, techniques and step-by-step illustrations to draw girls that rock the look, from flirty and fun to strong and sexy.Illustrated with tons of gorgeous examples, this guide covers everything from assembling your tools and mixing skin tones to the secrets behind natural looking poses and proper fabric drape. Jennifer uses acrylic paint and black ink to create her happy illustrations, and shows you how, too. But you can follow along with markers, pencils or whatever you like! Find out how to:Draw standing and walking poses full of attitude and movement.
About the Author
Jennifer Lilya grew up in Fairfield, CT where she spent countless hours sketching her Barbie dolls. In the present, not much has changed. Barbie, Fashion Plates and 80s pop culture have influenced her love of fashion and art, inspiring her to move to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she majored in Fashion Illustration. She specializes in fashion illustration painted in acrylics and black ink on paper. The combination of fashion, art and witty hand-lettering gives her pieces a whimsical and modern edge.
Jennifer has been illustrating professionally since 1993. Her love of runway sketching and a traditional, non-digital approach to illustration has garnered her clients such as Dolce & Gabbana, Saks, ELLE, Katy Perry, Barneys NY, Express, Cosmopolitan, Bloomingdale's, Stila, Piperlime, Bergdorf Goodman, Edelman PR, Neiman Marcus among many other brands, fashion designers and publications.
Lilya spends her days in wonderfully different ways - most notably, Earl Grey-fueled "painting parties," which consist of client work, commissions and personal artistic development.
You can also find Jennifer at one of her many events creating custom sketches of guests at high-end department stores, boutiques and private parties in NYC and the Tri-State area.
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