David Downtown
is one of the renowned fashion illustrator.He became a well known artist after hiswork from vogue was released.
is one of the renowned fashion illustrator.He became a well known artist after hiswork from vogue was released.
David was bornin Kent, England 1959.He studied at Canterbury for foundation year and Wolverhamptonfor BA HONS illustration/graphics.
He moved toBrighton in 1959 and began his illustration career. The type of project heaccomplished was advertising, packaging-illustrating fiction, cook books, Fashion.
In 2007, Davidlaunched a book called Pour quoi? , the first ever journal of FashionIllustration. He went to London College of fashion to be a visiting professor.He inspired many, he inspired me. His work might be seen as colourless, but for me...it feels like there islife within the painting. I can feel every brush marks he made. It makes me want to create an artwork everytime I look at his paintings.
David worked for commercial client include: Tiffany & Co, Bloomingdales, Barney's, Harrods, Top Shop, Chanel, Dior,L'Oreal, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, V Magazine and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
In 1998, he started working on a series of portraits ofsome of the world's most beautiful women, including Erin O'Connor, Paloma Picasso, Catherine Deneuve, Linda Evangelista, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Iman and Dita Von Teese.
My Favourite illustration
The reasonwhy I like this image is mainly because the style David downtown has. It is a mixture of abstract and fine lines. The shirt was not painted all over theshirt, but you still see what the outline of the shirt is. This is because hedrew thin outlines.
The eye of the model is the most dominant focal point.The eye was drawn very delicately by the dip nip pen with ink.
In this illustration, he used a dip nib pen and thin brusheswith ink.The ink gives a variety of line thinckness.Some are sketchier thanothers.
He uses tones (black & White).The women is colourlessto appreciate the elegant dress she was wearing. The focal point turned out tobe the dress or the model’s dress. The grey tones are mostly used for theshadow of the model. I assume he did not want the model to be ‘in your face’.That explains why the model is in the light tone e.g. Grey)
