Final Illustration - Elena and Hess combined

This drawing below is my own persona of Elena and Hess combined together. As you can see I have taken the body from Elenas illustration and combined it with Hess's head and background image. I simply drew this out on tracnslucent paper with a HB pencil and scanned it into photoshop. When it was scanned into Photoshop I added colour and texture. The dress from the drawing is a floral print, all the colours of the dress have been used throughout the drawing to match it in nicely.

I thoroughly enjoyed combining both these illustrators as I love both of their work. Their work is very simple but makes a great statement.

Drawing stages - From Start to Finish - Arturo Elena & Kerrie Hess illustrations

The drawings below show the different stages I went through to produce a combination drawing of both Elena and Hess illustration. Each stage was done using translucent paper, pencils, pens, photoshop, watercolour and print.

 This image above is Kerrie Hess's own illustration. The head and background of this image will be taken and combined with the body of an Elena illustration.

This image above is Arturo Elena's own illustration. This is the drawing that I am going to attach Hess's illustrations head and background to. The colours and patterns are going to be tweeked to suit my own persona of the image.

Firstly, I drew out the head from the Kerrie Hess illustration with a plain 2B pencil. I drew the head out 4 times and each time I added a different feature. The first head I drew an outline of the head, the second head I added the eyes and eyebrows, the third head I added the nose and mouth, the fourth head I then put all the features together and made a complete face.

After I drew up the completed face I began to add the background that I am combining in my final illustration. I drew this again with a 2B pencil.

I went on to complete a drawing of the body from the Kerrie Hess illustration. I am not using this body in my final illustration but I wanted to draw it to show what way Kerrie Hess illustrates the body.

After drawing an outline of the body I began replicating the print of the dress from the Kerrie Hess illustration without colour.

This drawing is the final piece of the Kerrie Hess illustration. I drew the head, body and background with a 2B pencil and scanned the drawing onto photoshoot. When it was on Photoshop I took a floral print image from online and printed it onto the dress and lips as Kerrie Hess uses print in her illustrations. When I had it copied in I tweeked it to suit my persona of the dress. ie: changed the colour of the print from blue/green to red/pink.

This drawing is a light outline drawing of Arturo Elenas Illustration using a HB pencil. This is the body that I am going to use in my final illustration.

In this drawing I drew out the body of the illustration and added the head using a HB pencil. This head is'nt the head that I am going to using in my Final illustration but I drew it to show the way Elena drew his heads in his illustrations.

 

This drawing is the final piece of the Arturo Elena Illustration but without the face features. I drew the body and head with a HB pencil on translucent paper and scanned them into photoshop. When it was scanned to photoshop I completed the drawing with a mixture of both print, free hand painting and watercolour. The shawl is from a printed image and the colour of it changed from yellow to pink/purple. The dress in the drawing was filled using a free hand paint brush with a mix of watercolour throughtout. A slight bit of shadowing was include to define the curves of the body. 

Illustrators drawing techniques: Kerrie Hess

Kerrie Hess uses more than one drawing technique to complete her illustrations. Over the years she has used, pencil, pens, watercolour and print. She finds all 4 of these methods particularly easy to work with.

She explains that watercolour is an easy way to blend a mixture of colours to produce the colour she is looking for.

Hess believes that went she sees a nice print whether its a foral print or poka dot she likes to easy take that and combine with her work to get the right style and image for her illustrations.

Illustrators drawing techniques: Arturo Elena

Since becoming a professional illustrator, Arturo Elena tried many different pens, but found the 'Copic' pen the best for his particular illustrations.

Elena chose the Copic pen as they have a huge variety of colour, quality and precision.

Copic pens can be easily blended to get the results that Elena is looking for.

Elena's inspiration for these type of illustrations came from fashion photography. He liked to recreate and retain realistic effects, lights, shadows, textures, the movements of the figures and perspectives in his own image. 

Kerrie Hess for Net-a-porter

In the month of December 2011 Kerrie Hess illustrated some of the most iconic actresses of all time for Net-a-Porter!

http://www.net-a-porter.com/magazine#/122/21