Sunny Gu

Sunny Gu was born in China but moved to America when she was 13. She started painting and drawing as a hobby since she was young. As she grew she encountered people from various of backgrounds, this triggered her curiosity for other cultures. She learnt to observe and discover beauties in everything around her. She lived in the United States in Alhambra which is near Los Angeles where she could see all the fashionistars and their good sense of style. She inspired from California and tended to illustrate people tropical outfits. She has always interested by bright colours and intricate details which led her into job as illustrator. She has drawn for as long as she can remember. Drawing and painting have always been her favourite things to do. Even though she may be drawing stick figures and crayon doodles when she was little, every practice has contributed and has paved away to her artistic growth. However, even though other people say her works are perfect, she points out things that she can improve on. She normally uses watercolour because she love the vibrancy and the unpredictable nature of watercolour. Occasionally she used graphite or acrylic paint to render some of special textures.

Fab Ciraolo

Fab Ciraolo born in Chile and his pieces combine re-imagined elements of nostalgic popular culture with fantastical sci-fi standards and beautiful space-like atmospheres. Incorporating classic cartoon characters, fairy tale favorites and edgy popular icons, Ciraolo constructs compelling and enchanting artwork that stirs up whimsical feelings for the past while keeping one foot forward. He started to illustrating since he can remember and his background was always around arts. His parents always encouraged him to keep illustrating and advice him to always stay true to what he loves and to what he needs to happy. He uses traditional painting, drawing, acrylics, colour pencils to create his work. He used coffee for painting and he said coffee is good to make cool texture. Cartoons were always in his mind, when he was little he would draw all of them by hand, so one day it just came to him. Drawing He-Man in a flower suit, he just did it and the result was interesting and fun to him. So he keeps digging in all these characters making them more fashionable, always wondering how will they look in cool suits and jackets and tight pants— hipster looks. He wasn't inventing something out of this world, just giving a little twist to things that were in his mind a long time ago. He loves to mix the old with the modern, giving things that already exist a new fresh air, a new vision. He is working in these series, with Frida, Che Guevara and Dalí, it is the result of all these things that are in his mind. This is the main idea of all of these. He mixes them with all the images that are inside his head and it is like an explosion of images that he needs to get out and put them together in one piece.

 

 

David Downton

David Downton was born in Kent, in the south of England in 1959. He studied at Canterbury and Wolverhampton. He worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from advertising and packaging to illustrating fiction, cook books and, occasionally, fashion. In 1996, he started to draw at the couture shows and became popular as a fashion illustrator. He worked with Tiffany & Co, Bloomingdales, Barney’s, Harrods, Top Shop, Chanel, Dior, L’Oreal, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, V Magazine and the V&A Museum. He thinks most important things of fashion are the sense of the body in the clothes, proportion, colours and details. He uses watercolour or gouache for small scale pieces. If he needs flat saturated colour he uses cut paper collage and then applies line using an acetate overlay. He uses black Indian ink on acetate or paper to do the pure line drawing. He draws whenever there is a chance that the model will stay still, backstage or at fittings sometimes even in the car between shows.