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OverviewLearn to paint outstanding fashion watercolours with expert guidance from a leading fashion illustrator. Watercolour is a wonderful medium for figure and fashion as it creates loose, impressionistic results that capture the essence of a look without getting too bogged down in the details. In this complete course, professional fashion illustrator Francesco Lo Iacono shows you how to master creating delicate, beautiful fashion illustrations. The book begins with the best tools and materials, from paints and brushes to pencils, paper and more. You'll then explore simple watercolour techniques such as washes, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and using the white of the paper. Francesco then goes on to teach you about lighting and shading, which can have a dramatic effect on your work. And finally in the front section, you'll learn about colour, how to create palettes, how to mix colours and achieving a range of skin tones. Once you've covered these fundamentals, Francesco explores the key elements of illustrating fashion, with guidance on how to approach both male and female faces, a wide variety of hair types and styles, different male and female poses, and how to draw and paint garments, reflecting tailoring, drapery, volume, texture and patterns. Twenty step-by-step projects then take these building blocks and show you how to use them to create beautiful fashion watercolors, starting with easier subjects and building in complexity as your confidence grows. You'll begin by painting handbags and shoes without models before starting to introduce figures. The range of subjects included covers all angles, from full figures front on and in profile to close-up make-up and beauty illustrations. You'll also learn how to create dynamic compositions for editorial fashion illustration. Finally, Francesco covers the best ways to digitize and retouch your work, how to incorporate other media alongside your watercolors, how to work live at fashion events and how to take everything you've learned to develop your own personal style of fashion illustration. Francesco's clients include fashion brands Dior, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton and with this book you'll have all the tools you need to become an A-list fashion illustrator too. AUTHOR: Francesco Lo Iacono is an Italian illustrator based in London. His client list includes Dior, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Fendi, JW Anderson, Bottega Veneta, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ted Baker, Paul Smith, Paris Fashion Week, GQ Mexico, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and more. He also tutors a monthly Fashion Life Drawing Class at the Cass Art flagship store in Islington, London. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Francesco Lo Iacono , Patrick Morgan, RCA , Patrick Morgan, RCA , Patrick Morgan, RCAPublisher: David & Charles Imprint: David & Charles Dimensions: Width: 21.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 28.00cm Weight: 0.650kg ISBN: 9781446308738ISBN 10: 1446308731 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 09 November 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword 4 INTRODUCTION 5 Using this book 6 Tools and materials 8 EXPLORING WATERCOLOR 12 Approaching the blank page 12 Mixing your paints 13 Practice exercises 14 Understanding lighting and shading. 16 Understanding color 19 ILLUSTRATING FASHION 24 Working in the fashion industry 24 CREATING A CHARACTER 26 General features 26 Women’s faces 30 Men’s faces 31 Hair 32 Painting beautiful hair 33 POSES 34 The body 35 Examples 38 RENDERING FABRICS AND PRINTS 40 Exploring fabrics and textures 41 Prints and patterns 43 TUTORIALS 44 Canvas tote bag 46 Wedge platform shoe 48 Gown on mannequin 50 Womenswear head to toe 54 Menswear head to toe 58 Girl with bag 62 Eye makeup 66 Girl with hat 70 Woman in print dress 76 Boy with hat 80 Perfumes 84 Focus on beauty 86 Girl with sunglasses 92 Man in print shirt 96 Vintage jewelry 100 Menswear composition 102 Catwalk moment 108 Close-up beauty look 112 Womenswear composition 118 Editorial with background 126 READY FOR BUSINESS 132 Digitizing your work 132 Mixed media 136 Working live 138 Developing personal style 141 About the author and acknowledgements 142 Index 143ReviewsAs in the arts, fashion illustration has had its master watercolour artisans, including the infamous David Downton, an avid watercolour and ink draftsman, Antonio Lopez and Kenneth Block, who captured the fashion figure with the most direct and considered brush strokes. Francesco is bringing this medium into a modern era, combining the skills of watercolour and technology to edit and refine his final outcomes. His rich, vivid tones always delight, leaving the viewer with a taste in the mouth for more after every sitting. Like Francesco as a young boy, revealing the rainbow palette of his first watercolour set, this book will give you the possibility to make your own marks and tell your own story. -- Patrick Morgan ""As in the arts, fashion illustration has had its master watercolour artisans, including the infamous David Downton, an avid watercolour and ink draftsman, Antonio Lopez and Kenneth Block, who captured the fashion figure with the most direct and considered brush strokes. Francesco is bringing this medium into a modern era, combining the skills of watercolour and technology to edit and refine his final outcomes. His rich, vivid tones always delight, leaving the viewer with a taste in the mouth for more after every sitting. Like Francesco as a young boy, revealing the rainbow palette of his first watercolour set, this book will give you the possibility to make your own marks and tell your own story."" -- Patrick Morgan ""This book is packed with handy tips and tricks that are worth their weight in gold, the kind of instructions that only someone who has a lot of experience in the medium can give."" * London Runway Fashion Magazine * Author InformationFrancesco Lo Iacono is an Italian illustrator based in London. His clients include Dior, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Fendi, JW Anderson, Bottega Veneta, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ted Baker, Paul Smith, Paris Fashion Week, GQ Mexico, Selfridges and Harvey Nichols. He also tutors a monthly Fashion Life Drawing Class at the Cass Art flagship store in Islington, London.|Francesco Lo Iacono is an Italian illustrator based in London. His client list includes Dior, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Fendi, JW Anderson, Bottega Veneta, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ted Baker, Paul Smith, Paris Fashion Week, GQ Mexico, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and more. He also tutors a monthly Fashion Life Drawing Class at the Cass Art flagship store in Islington, London.|Trained at the Royal College of Art, Patrick Morgan has worked as a commercial artist for over 20 years receiving commissions from famous designers and exclusive patrons including Yves Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, Chanel, Fendi, Christian Dior, Schiaperilli and more. He is a regular contributor to The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker and The Observer. Major works created in collaboration with Tom Ford for the English National Ballet, Ballet Russe’s ‘The Firebird’, were reused to represent Art and Culture at The Mayor of London’s Office for the 2012 Olympics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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