Sarah Hankinson

Sarah Hankinson is a Melbourne illustrator. Her work is a combination of traditional and digital media, and her work consists of broken line and bold splashes of colour. Sarah explains her signature as 'Youthful, feminine pencil drawings with a splash of colour.'

I think that she may produce the basic image using traditional media and then adds colour, effects and graphics using digital media.

I feel that the mood in most of her work portrays youth, and fun and I think that the market level is ready-to-wear.

I would like to use Sarah Hankinson's work as inspiration for my own illustrations, by incorporating the splashes of colour into my drawings.

Here is an image from the course that I completed at Central St.Martins this summer. This image has been edited once as I was just experimenting with the different effects that photoshop offers. Here I have used a neon setting.

The first image is the image I started with, which is a simple drawing of a woman's face, I created this using pencil to begin with and then went over the lines using a fine liner pen. After scanning the drawing into photoshop I coloured the hair in using the paint brush tool. I then used the 'magic wand' to select the hair and added an effect which then made the hair colour go more of a pink and when looking closely it is created my tiny dots that reminded me of Roy Lichtenstein's work. My next stage was adding colour to the face using the airbrush tool and decreasing the opacity. I then also added colour into the eyes and the mouth. Finally for the t-shirt, I used the paintbrush tool but changed the shape to stars and overlapped then using black, by selecting the whole section I then added effects to make it look like this.

Here I produced four simple sketches on tracing paper, I used a different media for each drawing - drawing pencil, fine liner, ink, and white pencil. I then scanned the image into photoshop and did a quick change to each section of the collage to experiment with different effects.

Abbey Watkins

The Official Ralph Lauren 4D Experience - London

Designers are using fashion videos to advertise and promote their collections, videos are a good way of advertising as they can be seen on the Internet by all different audiences.

Drawing the image first using pencil, then going around the outline with a fine liner. I then scanned the image into photoshop and added colour into the scarf and using a blurring method softened the colours and made them less visible. When adding the colour into the eyes i changed the decreased the opacity so that the colour wasn't over powering.