Life drawings by Franco Clun

Franco Clun is an italian artist who only uses pencils and paper, but he makes his incredible life drawings look like photographs. And astonishingly he has never had a art class, he had taught himself to draw by reading some drawing manuals. 

Drawing of star James Franco

Landscape drawing

Drawing by Franco 

I think that his passion and determination for drawing is really admirable and inspiring.

Socio economics

Socio economics is the studies on societies and how they differ from one another. There are social groups,  graded from 'A-E', 'A' being at the top ranks, for example someone who is high managerial. 'C'                
being in the middle, someone who is junior management/skilled manual worker. And 'E' calss being at the bottom, which is a casual labourer.

Lia Griffith paper making

Lia Griffith is a fashion and graphic designer, who has been a costumer for plays and has made a line of children's clothing. She was asked by Xerox to do a project where she would create a dress that shows off their new printers vivd colour capability. Lia went on and created seven beautiful dresses that had also featured paintings done by her collaborator Sean Moran.

Both Lia and Sean worked together creating patterns, art works, quotes, and then they were all transferred onto 11x17 sheets of white paper. Lia took it a set further by transforming the colour copies in to high fashion, by sewing, hot gluing and cutting. Things that inspire her amazing designs are nature based, and for her next collect, they will be inspired by things that can fly, and that can bloom.

Ralph John Perou photography

Perou is well known for many things, including fashion portrait and music photography. He was born in 1970 in east Sussex. It wasn't until he had finished his Design A levels that he decided that he was going to complete his BTEC OND in Design Photography. Shortly afterwards in 1994 he completed his BA Hons degree in Photography, Films and Video Arts at the University of Westminster.

While working as a studio manager he met many of the worlds leading photographers. During his time working there, he had learnt to do photography professionally and had done shoots for editorial clients, such as 'Time Out', 'Dazed and Confused' magazine, 'Skin Two', and he also took shots of music bands.

He had his own show in 2011 called 'Dirty Sexy Things', where it would document a group of models doing different shoots for him that leads to his big exhibition. That is where I first came across Perou and admired his photography skills, especially his fashion photographs.

V&A

The V&A are having an exhibition called 'Club to Catwalk', which is where we get to experience fashion trends in the 80's and it will be showcasing new and adventurous looks by young new designers, including Betty Jackson.

It will be showing and telling about the famous London club scene, as that was a major cause for young people to dress up more and try new trends. And that was what influenced the new designers back then to create things that the young generation wanted.
It then took to the catwalks, even around the world, all because of the new influences from the London club scene. John Galliano had recalled, "Thursday and Friday nights at St Martins, the college was absolutely deserted, everyone has at home working on their costumes for the weekend". This also brings but the DIY phase that was in the 80's.

Next nature Trend

WGSN has forecasted that Next Nature is the new trend. Next Nature is human kind creating the next nature, with unpredictable patterns and designs. Its recreating nature, where we can in the future use things biologically rather than mechanically.

There will be many carnival styled colours used that will influence the latest trends and make up styles, such as using tropical eyes shadow colours, and for nails, 3D manicures will still be in trend and berry colours will be used as it gives a textured look that gives a velvet effect.

When it comes to packaging, it will be very organic and it will have a camouflage effect. Floral illustrations would go well with bottles, especially with dark green tones. The packaging could also be shaped like nature, for example a box opens like a blooming flower.

Packaging for Topshop

I produced a small box for Topshop. Using a box template, I used and mixed different patterns that I had created together to put on the 'face' of the box. I also labelled the longer sides of the box with 'Topshop'. The materials used were coloured tissues and paper. The design is very trendy and unique.

Dry point technique

For this technique, I used tracing paper to draw a design. I then transferred the design to card by using a crafting knife and carving into the design over card. After I used ink paints and 'dabbed' it into the lines on the card, I then laced the card face down on to damp paper and placed it on to a flattening machine. This then caused the image to transfer on to the paper.

Life Drawings

In our drawing classes, we have been drawing things from life, for my drawings I drew a model who stood in the middle of the room.

This drawing was made using black paper and coloured pastels,. It was made using a continuos line, where we wasn't allowed to remove the pastel from the paper. My favourite of the three is the last one as it has better shaping. I would improve the way I drew the models posture.

These were made using a graphite pencil. It was easy to use so it didn't take long to produce my work. I think that the first picture looks more elegant than the second. It also expresses an expression of sadness because of the models posture.

These were made using inks. The first and last are line drawings, with sharp angles, where as the second is softer and has squiggly lines. The fast one was made at a fast pace. I think that the lines communicate the feeling of sadness and loneliness because of the colours and the positioning. I would improve these by adding more depth and shading.

This piece was done with two coloured pens tied together. It gives a double image effect and it changes the way you see the shapes.

This is a collaboration picture. It was done by many people, I started it off by drawing specific shapes in various sizes, then the work was swapped around between other people and they added their own shapes and colours. I think that the outcome looks really good and unique.

This drawing was done with coloured pens, it was focused on 'shape', using a model in the middle with statues placed around her. The paper was a normal white sheet, which gives the colours a bigger effect.

Essay

The two artists I have chosen for my essay are Amelie Hegardt and David Downton as they are both artists I have been working on in my project over the last few weeks. They are also the two artists that have inspired my work as I find both of their work interesting and unique.

My first artist is Amelie Hegardt, she has studied at Art History at Stockholm University. She is now based in London but tends to work in Stockholm. She is known for being a fashion illustrator and artist, and she also designs wallpapers and pillow cases. Amelie creates her work using materials such as; inks, watercolours, pastels and gouache. Her illustrations are mainly focused on fashion women, including 1920's silhouettes with blushing cheeks, she also uses bleeding inks with luminous colours which have a beautiful effect. Amelie became successful in 2006, when she won a 'Blackbook' magazine competition, winning her six pages for her illustrations.

My second artist David Downton, studied illustrations/graphics at Canterbury in 1977 and then at Wolverhampton in 1981.  David started his illustration career in 1984 when he moved to Brighton. He became successful in fashion illustrations in 1996, when he was asked to draw the Paris Couture shows by The Financial Times. The materials he uses vary from inks to pastels and unlike Amelie, he uses quite darker colours on his illustrations. Downton has had many influences through out his time and some of them are well known women of today, including Lily Cole and Twiggy. That is why he has also became successful for doing portraits.

The two artists work styles are similar in the way that they both do beautiful ink illustrations of elegant fashion silhouettes. Another things is the texture of their work and the way they make the inks bleed together around the illustration is very effective and leaves a beautiful effect. They also use a variation of colours when it comes to making small details to create effects, such as shading.

However, both artists work differ from each other's for many reasons. The first is that although they both do fashion illustrations, Amelie's a more focused on silhouettes and are inspired by fashion eras such as the 1920's, where as David works more on portraits and with well know models. Another difference between the two is that Amelie uses bright, luminous colours with her inks and watercolours, to make her work more feminine, and David uses darker and bolder colours as it makes his work look more serious and edgier.

Amelie Hegardt 

David Downton

In conclusion, I have learnt a lot about these two artists and their style of works. And I didn't know that fashion illustrations were very popular. Their style with the inks and watercolours have really inspired me with my own work, as the ways they make the inks bleed around the illustration is really unique and gives a beautiful effect but still manages to look simple. It also influenced the way I have on my project with my own drawings and illustrations.

Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs is a contemporary designer who is the head of Marc by Marc Jacobs and The Marc Jacobs Collection and Little Marc, here he explains his clothes; "Even if someone feels hedonistic, they don't look it. Curiosity about sex is much more important to me than domination....My clothes are not hot. Never, never."

His clothes have effected the fashion industry in many way, starting with his grunge theme in 1993, to chic and vintage accessories, he loves to match his bold, quirky accessories with his traditional designs and clean cut silhouettes. 

Vivienne Westwood on Wogan & Jonathan Ross

When Vivienne Westwood appeared on the Wogan show in the 1988, the host Sue Lawley and other guest Russell Harty encouraged the audience to diss and laugh at Vivienne's designs, with Vivienne threatening to stop the models from coming out unless the audience stopped laughing. It was until other guest Janet Street-Porter, who had just become head of youth entertainment by the BBC, stuck up and defended Vivienne by saying everyones being unfair and that Westwood id the most influential designer in England.


Then in 2009, Westwod appeared on the Jonathan Ross show, and from the start of them introducing her, they treated her with so much respect.

Trend Recipe

To make your trend a success, you need special ingredients including;

 50% people using your trend,

 20% of social media (twitter/tumblr/facebook),

10% of photography,

10% of magazine influences,

10% of adverts.

The style I’m going to make trendy is tie dye/printed tees. I think it’s a wicked trend as its aimed at my own generation and it can be styled in so many ways. There are hundreds of different types of printed tees and tie dye tops, but what’s really cool is that with the tie dye tees people can choose to be really different and tie dye their own tees with their own colours.

To make my style become a trend, I will use the influence of social media for getting my trend out there. I can tweet about the trend and blog pictures of it on tumblr, I can also use hash tags, which is a fast way for finding new things. Also by wearing my trend around and about, people will notice it and it will influence them to start wearing the same trend.

The trend will become fashionable once its gone mainstream and many people are wearing the trend at the same time. Shops will pick up on the latest trends and will sell many forms of it to make money.

What makes a style popular is when many people are wearing that trend and its gone mainstream everywhere. 

Current trends

Pastel hair colours are very popular amongst young people, I think that its a really cool trend as a lot of people are experimenting with it and theres no wrong or right way to do it.

Big prints and patterns are also a big trend with young people, it adds something different to the outfit and can make the individual stand out. The prints can be anything from tie dye to big logos. 

WGSN

WGSN is a website that broadcasts new trends. It was launched in 1998 for fashion and design industries. But now it is the worlds leading fashion forecaster, with over 300 design and editorial staff around the world. WGSN is also responsible for launching the Global Fashion Awards as a way of celebrating the industries newly found talent and its global community.

They say that their key stages of research are; Input, Analysis and Output.

Input is when they research current trends around the world, this can include new developments in fashion, art and culture, politics, textile, architecture and even colours.

Analysis is when they then take the information from Input and check its accuracy, creating future themes.

Output is when WGSN demonstrates the key themes that apply to the product collections and the trends are defined with specific reference.

David Carson typography

David Carson is a art director and a graphics designer, he is well known for his use of typography for a magazine design. He was art director of the magazine 'Ray Gun' and 'Transworld Snowboarding', which is where he used a lot of typography. His work is known to be very grunge.
He has been listed as one of the five top all time influential designers of our time by Graphic design USA magazine. Carson has also won many awards, including Designer Of The Year, Master Of Typography, Best Overall Design and The Most Famous Graphics Designer On The Planet.

Magazine covers

Magazines have been published since the 17th century. A magazine that was very popular amongst young women in the 1960's was called 'Honey'. Its was a british magazine that was aimed at teenagers and young women. It even sold 250,000 copies a month. 

Font cover in the 60's

Latest edition 

1960's article of Vogue

Very popular and successful magazine that has been running since the 1890's is American magazine 'Vogue'. It started to sell in Britain in 1916 where it has been a huge success. During the 60's, Vogue focused on contemporary fashion and the sexual revolution. It also featured the likes of Andy Warhol, and as for the front covers, it had Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree and many others. 

Many magazine articles feature a well know icon on the cover to get customers attentions. They also glam up the women on the covers with accessories or beautiful clothes and make up styles to get the women to want to be like the models and buy similar items.  The purpose of the magazine cover is to out do the other magazines by getting the customers attention and making them curious enough to buy the magazine. 

A popular British magazine amongst young women and teenagers is 'Company'. It has been around since 1978 and has recently been branded as a 'fresher and edgier Teen Vogue'. The covers feature many recent and popular people and inspirations, varying from Britain's Next Top Model winners to singers, actors, models and many others.