David Downton-Fashion illustrator.

QUEEN OF EUROPE by David Downton December 1991

This is one of the first issue of Vogue Italia cover featuring Shana Zedrick in a dress by Gianni Versace.This is one of his drawings which is name QUEEN OF EUROPE by David Downton december 1991.I like how he colour the illustrations.I also like the strokes.It gives me a sexy kind of impressions.

When i was 15 years old,fashion illustrations were alien to me.When i started doing art,i then realise the importance of knowing all the painters,illustrators,designers,the people who use their time to do an artwork.They were the one who created the work.They were the one who process all the work before it was established in public.I believe that there won't be new if there are no old.

David Downton is a fashion illustrator.He was born in 1959 in Kent,England.How he started in art and illustrating is that he studied in Canterbury in 1977-1978 for foundation year. Later on, he continued studying in Wolverhampton for BA HONS in illustrations/graphics 1979-1981.In 1984,he moved to Brighton and began his career as an illustrator.He worked a wide variety of projects such as advertising and occasionally fashion.In 1996,Financial times,a british  international newspaper,offered him to draw at the Paris couture.Since then David have become a chiefly fashion illustrator.David's drawings from fashion shows were globally recognised.

Vogue Australia September 2009.

This is also his illustrations in 2009 celebrating 50 Years of Vogue.His works are becoming more and more edgy.And the class are getting darker.I love the way he present his illustrations.It gives me a elegant kind of look.

Audrey Hepburn for Vanity FAir 

2013

BY:DAVID DOWNTON

David Downton works are getting more and more detail too.As you can see from the first illustrations from this post,the illustrations was not so detailed as the 2013 illustration.The colour that he uses changes as time goes by.He used vibrant colours for his early illustrations but pastel colours for the latest one.

In conclusion,what i have learned from Downton personal life, being a student to a employee to a fashion illustrator gave me a good impression and i looked up to him as a hardworking person and a positive person. He got what people like me wanted.One day i hope i could be as 'lucky' or as good as him,becoming a successful person.He is one of my inspirations for doing fashion illustrations.Hopefully,i can achieve what he can one day.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Downton

http://www.vogue.co.uk/person/david-downton