My own work of Elisa Mazzone

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I created the following 2 illustrations  using sketching pencils, shading just one part of the face, which is a recognised technique of Elisa Mazzones. I did the tears using a drop of paint and let it run down the face and used Coral Draw to fill in the black.

This shows the step by step stages to the final face which I did with the use of sketching and coloured pencils.

I did this drawing using pencils, again shading just half of the girl which is Elisa's signature style and did the butterfly using coloured pencils.

Another step by step drawing of one of Elisa's illustrations, using sketching and coloured pencils.

My own work of Jason Brooks

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The following are the steps to my own interpertation of a Jason Brooks image.



The orginal Jason Brooks illustration.

Step 1: I stated by drawing the illustration in pencils this shows the step by step process of the facial features using sketching pencils and coloured pencils.

Step 2: I created this rough sketching with the use of coloured pencils, sketching pencils and black pen.

Step 3: This is my interpertation of a Jason Brooks' image, I created this using photoshop. I copied the original Jason Brooks' image by outlining the various shapes and then putting it into my own image. I filled the highlighted parts and darker parts with the use of different layers on photoshop.

I did this Jason Brooks illustration with the use of black marker and painting pink over it, I then used a black marker over the paint for one side of the illustration to create a dark shadow in parts of the face.

Another Jason Brooks image I created using black marker to distinguish one of Jason's recognised style features of bold hair and eyes. I then used darkers and lighter sketching pencils for shading.

I drew these Jason Brooks illustrations, left and below, with the use of drawing pencils just.

Elisa Mazzone's Technique

Illustrator's style & technique


Elisa Mazzone:

• Detailed hand drawen technique combined with soft watercolours is the style of Elisa Mazzone's work with just some areas shaded in illustration's distinguishes Elisa's style and technique.
• With art work exhibited throughout Australia, Elisa is known for creating some very beautiful characters, which communicate through their colour, shape, flowing line and embellishment.
• Inspired by mostly moods, music, people, colors, nature, the past and dreaming about the future.

Jason Brooks' Technique

Illustrator’s style & technique

Jason Brooks:

• Jason Brooks’ drawings and illustrations have evolved into one of the most recognised and imitated digital styles of today.
• Smooth hair and exaggerated eyes are key features that characterise his work.
• Jason Brooks combines various techniques during the process of producing his final image, starting with a hand drawing. This free-hand appeal is a quality that cannot be replicated and is unique to Brooks' own creative hand, ensuring that his genuine designs are instantly recognisable.
• His glamorous and inspirational illustrations and vector artworks can be seen anywhere: in fashion magazines and advertising, on album covers, posters, billboards and packaging.

Elisa Mazzone - stylist/graphic designer & illustrator

ELISA MAZZONE is a stylist, graphic designer and illustrator.
www.elisamazzone.com.au

Skipping, hopping and dancing around the whimsical line between grown up and childlike, Elisa is the creator of some very beautiful characters, which communicate through their colour, shape, flowing line and embellishment. Elisa’s work has been published and exhibited throughout Australia. Her intricate and haunting drawings of beautiful ‘ladies’ as she calls them, revel an interesting mixture between detailed hand drawn features and soft-edged watercolours.

Seen in:

Adam & Eve Projects

Trendland

Swatch MTV Playground

Buro 24/7

Leivos

I love Illustration

Australian Infront

Designers Couch

Bio:

Australian born Illustrator Elisa Mazzone’s latest illustrations series, exploring the female form through careful choices in colour, shape, flowing line and embellishment. Elisa’s ‘ladies’, as they are affectionately known, are the cornerstone of artistic leanings that may or may not have manifested in reaction to a little girl growing up with plenty of brothers.

As a stylist, graphic designer, illustrator and avid fan of all things beautiful, Elisa has spent years working with people to create gorgeous visual landscapes and keepsakes, weaving mediums together with allegorical needle and thread.


Elisa's work has enchanted audiences throughout Australia, through various exhibitions and magazines such as Madison, Yen and Desktop, through clients such as Mambo as well as gracing covers of inimitable Hallmark cards in the UK. She was also recently selected as one of three finalists to become South Australian Young Artist of the Year.

Jason Brooks - digital/fashion illustrator

JASON BROOKS is a London born digital/fashion illustrator.

www.jason-brooks.com

His work is instantly recognisable and occupies a unique position in the high-end illustration market, most notably for fashion-related commissions. His glamorous illustration style is particularly suited to aspirational and luxury brands, while his association with the Hedkandi music label ensures a continued relevance to a global audience of style-conscious young clubbers.

Illustration clients include:

Virgin Atlantic, Vogue, Elle, Coty, Guerlain, Nike, Hedkandi, Fenwicks, Smart Cars, Orange, Ogilvy and Mather, River Publishing, Publicis, Oasis, Vogue Italy, Conde Nast Traveller, Carlsberg, Express Jeans, Cosmopolitan, Style Monte Carlo, Veuve Clicquot, Philips, British Airways.

Bio:

Jason Brooks was born in London on February 23^rd 1969. He grew up in Brighton and began drawing and painting at an unusually young age receiving his first freelance commissions in his early teens. Brooks studied Graphic Design at St Martin’s College, where he began working regularly for British Vogue after winning the Vogue Sotheby’s Cecil Beaton Award for Fashion Illustration. He began travelling widely while at St Martin’s, travel has been a recurrent theme in his work and his adventures continue to inspire and inform his visual repertoire.   Brooks landed a series of assignments drawing at the Couture shows in Paris for the Independent Newspaper. He has since filed numerous visual reports from the shows in New York for Visionaire and London Fashion Week for Elle. Brooks’ artwork has also provided the visual identity for record labels, most notable Hedkandi, who have achieved sales in excess of 5 million albums featuring his artwork.

Brooks has become one of the world’s leading exponents of fashion illustration. He is noted in particular as being one of the first artists to embrace and popularise computer technology in his field. The glamorous and aspirational world of the imagination he presents in his work has proven to be an ideal vehicle to promote a wide range of luxury and lifestyle brands, as well as establishing a distinctive visual language all of his own that has lead him to begin developing his own brand.

Each year he completes a range of commissions and collaborative projects for clients around the world, and welcomes the experience of working with companies, art directors and individuals who share his energy, sense of style and creative spirit.