Fashion illustrator David Downton
January 29th, 2007 FunForever
David Downton is a fashion illustrator, whose works have been on the cover of Bazaar, Style, Telegraph Saturday and other magazines. David Downton favourite model is stunning Erin O’Connor, he also does fashion illustrations for such celebrities as Catherine Deneuve, Liz Hurley, Dita von Teese, Iman, fashion designers and others.
Downton uses watercolour or gouache for small scale pieces. For flat saturated colour he uses cut paper collage and then applies line using an acetate overlay.
Works of David Downton include 20 original paintings and 300 prints fot Philip Treacy’s first hotel, the G, in Galway. The drawings feature Erin O’ Connor, Jade Parffit, Jasmine Guinness, Linda Evangelista and Carmen Dell’Orefice wearing Philip’s hats.
David also drew Dita von Teese and the drawings appeared on 5 pages of the Telegraph Saturday magazine.
10 Comments Add your own
1. Teresa | May 12th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
I LOVE YOUR WORK!!!!
You have some inspiration of my favorite illustrator Rene Gruau.
I am also a fashion illustrator/animator and love it when I see a fashion illustrator making out there and not just seeing photos.
Congrats and hope to see more of your work.
Teresa
2. yuri | June 24th, 2007 at 6:07 am
beautiful.
3. mary irving | October 26th, 2007 at 9:10 am
love it, love it, love it, breathtaking
4. umasha wickramasinghe | October 29th, 2007 at 2:34 am
i like the way you present your ideas…. am a fashion designer and this is the kind of illustrations am interesting in…..good work….keep it up…..
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6. rishi | November 26th, 2007 at 3:18 am
its nice
7. ayomide | December 7th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
very beautiful drawing. Love that you use paper collage materials also.
8. Briana | January 30th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
i love your work. its sensual, elegant, and tastful.
9. Briana | January 30th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
i love your work. its sensual, elegant, and tastful.
10. seno | April 1st, 2008 at 1:35 am
great!!..awesome!!..im a product designer, i like illustration skill like u do..the girl look so pretty in ur hand..keep on move bro!
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