Skillshare: Illustrating your favorite runway looks

Last week I finished my first online course on Skillshare taught by the talented Katie Rodgers: PaperFashion: Illustrating your favorite runway looks. After admiring her illustrations for a long time I was excited about the opportunity to learn from her. The course lasted for two weeks and has exceeded all my expectations. The first assignment was to create a mood board, then sketch our illustrations followed by watercolor and embellishments for the final sketch. I really can't find the words to describe how happy it made me to get a positive feedback from Katie. It was amazing to see so many beautiful projects, encounter talented people and be surrounded by creativity in such amounts that it made me feel motivated and inspired each day.

Here you can see sketches from my project:

Inspired by Christian Dior's couture collection F/W 2009

Inspired by Elie Saab's RTW collection S/S 2013

Inspired by Elie Saab's RTW collection S/S 2013

I was excited about using glitter for my final sketch. After using it I can honestly say that I love glitter and the feeling is obviously mutual considering the fact that it’s still covering a lot of surfaces in my apartment.  I also ended up using nail decorations for one of my sketches. It was a lucky coincidence that earlier I saw a dress from Alexander McQueen’s collection I really liked and then the next day while I was in a store I saw decorations that would be perfect for imitating the texture of the dress. Eureka!

Inspired by Alexander McQueen's collection F/W 2012-2013

Inspired by Zuhair Murad's RTW collection SS 2011

Yesterday I received one of the best news in my life. I got an e-mail saying that Katie left me a comment. I can’t describe how happy I was when I saw that Katie had chosen me as one of the two winners of her class. This is something I had hoped would happen but after seeing so many amazing projects, I really did not have high hopes of it coming true. So you can imagine my shock (that lasted for a couple of hours) when it happened! I even I thought it was an April 1^st joke. It’s one of the biggest compliments I have ever received because it came from one of my top favorite fashion illustrators. I still feel like jumping up and down for joy!

If you want to see other projects you can go to Skillshare or check out #paperfashionshillshare on Instagram.

Thank you Katie and fellow classmates for such great two weeks!

Andrea

Must have been a Think Pink moment

You know that feeling when inspiration catches you in her claws and then you start drawing and don't stop until you have finished. That happened with these two illustrations. Today it's just me because Tamara is too busy being lazy aka doing her day job. As soon as she manages to find time she'll post her new illustrations here. Until then you're stuck with me (cue evil laughter).

Illustration by Andrea (inspired by Arizona Muse for Vogue Paris photographed by Inez and Vinoodh)

Illustration by Andrea Perkov inspired by Drielle Valeretto for Nylon Korea

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about my two pink ladies :)

Andrea

Mesmerizing & Lily Cole

Today's illustrations are more graphic than the ones already published here.

Sometimes we enjoy the black & white, with just a touch of pink, style.

Keep calm and be creative :)

Illustration by Andrea Perkov inspired by Lily Cole for Vogue

''Mesmerizing'' - Illustration by Tamara Perković

Andrej & Bridget

Hi everyone

This week we've been good little artists so we'll have a lot of new illustrations to publish soon.

One of the things that made us happy was Twitter's new Vine app. We were excited about the possibility of uploading videos of our illustrations during the creation process. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts we managed to upload an initial video and we were convinced there wouldn't be any more problems...

However, we were wrong...

After we made a couple of videos of the whole drawing process (that lasts at least a couple of hours) they wouldn't upload. For now we'll continue to try and make new videos (hopefully those will upload) and have patience if it doesn't work again or just take a sledgehammer on our phone and then we won't be tempted to press that damn try again button next to the video. If you have any desire to see if we'll succeed in our mission follow us on Vine - @GypsyBallads

Illustration by Tamara Perković inspired by a photo of Andrej Pejić (photographer Damon Baker)

Illustration by Andrea Perkov inspired by Bridget Malcom photographed by Nicole Bentley for Marie Claire Australia