Fashion Illustration

Over my holiday in Cornwall, I rekindled a love for making full body fashion illustrations in Procreate.

I’m attracted to these illustrations for a few reasons. I like the bright colours I can use, and pretty women are one of my all time favourite illustration subjects. They also do well thematically when posted to Instagram, which I try to curate with lots of similar content.

This was inspired by the bushes bursting with hydrangea spotted along most of the roads in Cornwall. They range from bright magenta to deep blues and there are lots of pastel colours and whites too! I fell in love with them and made them into an outfit.

I’m especially happy with this one, because you can see I’m experimenting with style a little more. The use of the HB pencil tool means my art can look a little more sketchy, and it also forces my lineart to be thinner because of the pencil’s limitations.

My process is similar with each of the illustrations. I find a reference (or references) for the clothes, hair and possibly pose of each girl. I upload them all into Procreate and create a sketch with however much of my own creative license I want as well.

I tend to colour with pretty limited colour palettes because those are the most reminiscent of basic printing, e.g. Lino printing and screen printing. It gives it a 50s – 70s feel in a way, when the fewer colours on a printed image, the more cost effective it was to mass produce.

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