Elie Saab and Zuhair Murad inspired designs.

These pieces are my final two pieces for my Fashion Illustration module. I love couture gowns and heavy detailed embellishments so I chose two of my favourite couture designers - Elie Saab and Zuhair Murad to base my pieces on as we had to pick garments from the Fashion Weeks to 'copy'. I chose these two as they are very detailed, there is a lot of movement in the fabric, and they both have hints of gold so originally I wasn't going to colour them and just keep it with ink, however I thought if I just slightly highlighted parts in a watered down gold it would tie them together very nicely.

Pencil/Pen sketch.

This isnt my usual way of sketching. However, I tried to push myself out of my, small, pretty, elegant, comfort zone and do a big, angular design. 

I didnt want to add colour in the end incase it ruined it as you cant get one block colour using watercolours and its like primary school felt tips how it gets darker in certain places. I wanted to focus on the detail of the face, figure, and movement of the fabric. I really enjoyed doing this so hopefully I'll end up doing more big sketches like this in the future.

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'Summer luvin' and 'Little bitty pretty one' by Hayden Williams.

I have loved doing Hayden Williams drawings. He is my main inspiration. He has such good imagination on hair, poses, colours and the actual garments! I love them!