A tribute to great Fashion Illustrators

Have you ever wondered if all famous fashion designers do their own sketches? Well, no ! In fact most of them hire fashion illustrators to do the job for them . Here I would like to pay tribute to great & famous fashion illustrators , past & present . The one particular person whom I would like to mention is Antonio Lopez , who to me, is the Master of fashion illustration of all time .He's who we fashion illustrators inpire to be ! Here's some of his work:

As for my current favourite fashion illustrator,it's British illustrator David Downton :

http://www.daviddownton.com/html/fashionillus.htm 

Here's some of his work:

If you are interested to know more about the history of fashion illustration , here's a great site : http://fashillustration.blogspot.com/2009/05/fashion-illustration-time-traveling.html

Calling all fashion illustrators! Showcase your talents!

Are you an ardent fan of fashion sketches like myself? Having been a fashion designer myself for more than 10 years now, I remember while I was young,well...,way younger,I used to love playing paper dress-up dolls & eventually developed a passion for drawing fashion sketches after being inspired by reading chinese comic books 13点 ! It seemed only natural for me to grow up pursuing Fashion Design later on.

Japanese Paper Dress-Up Dolls

" Miss Thirteen " Comic Books

For those of you fashion illustrators out there, I would love to hear from you . Meanwhile you can check out my sketches here: http://rlsketches.blogspot.com/